TAQA Arabia and Kyndryl to modernise energy distribution in Egypt

Egyptian utility and energy distribution company TAQA Arabia announced on Tuesday its continued collaboration with Kyndryl, the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, to support its digital transformation and better serve the daily energy needs of more than 1.7 million customers across Egypt.

Kyndryl will now provide TAQA Arabia with cloud hosting and cloud managed application services for its enterprise resource planning (ERP) environment, SAP S/4HANA, the company said in a statement.

TAQA Arabia delivers more than 7.3 billion cubic meters of natural gas and more than 1.3 gigawatt of electrical capacities and serves customers across Egypt through a network of 110 retail oil and compressed natural gas (CNG) stations.

The SAP S/4HANA programme will play a pivotal role in enabling these operations, including support for plant maintenance activities, production planning, project management and sales and distribution, the company said.

TAQA began its work with Kyndryl in 2017 to help ensure secure, uninterrupted operations and real-time business intelligence from its SAP S/4HANA software environment.

As part of the latest renewal of work, TAQA Arabia will rely on Kyndryl to host its data-intensive SAP solutions on cloud infrastructure to help ensure high levels of security and availability, enhanced application performance and the flexibility to meet evolving business needs, the company said.

“Trust is fundamental to initiate and maintain relationships. Over the years, the Kyndryl team has proved to us that they are an extended part of the TAQA Arabia family, with our success at the forefront of everything that they do for us,” Hazem El Gaishy, TAQA Arabia’s Chief Information Officer, said in a statement.

“We are pleased to renew our collaboration with Kyndryl to drive forward our longer-term transformation goals,” he added.

With Kyndryl hosting its ERP environment in the cloud, TAQA Arabia has the option of integrating emerging technologies, such as AI and Internet of Things (IoT), at any time.