How City of Joburg Innovated to Keep the Lights On

SAP experts, partners, customers converge in Sun City for SAPHILA 2025 - African Newspage | Reporting Africa’s Development

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – June 2, 2025 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- SAP experts, partners and customers are converging this week at SAPHILA 2025, the flagship user conference for SAP’s Africa ecosystem. Sergio Maccotta, Vice President: SAP Middle East Africa South, says: “Africa is a vital region for SAP’s vision of bringing out the best in every business. As our incredible customers, partners and experts gather at this year’s SAPHILA, we ar…

How City of Joburg innovated to keep the lights on

Kathy Gibson reports from Saphila Transcend in Sun City – When it started on its digital transformation journey, the City of Johannesburg had to not only update obsolete technology, but convince business users to adopt better processes. Having partnered with SAP since 2007, the City was no stranger to SAP deployments, but as recently as two years ago, it was still using 17-year old systems. Aubrey Mochela, group chief technology officer at City …