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Poznań/Warsaw, 30 czerwca 2017
Press release
SAP Helps Manage Poland’s Capital
Since January this year, management of the largest city in Poland has been carried out with
help of the SAP system, implemented by a consortium of Sygnity and BCC. With respect to
HR, this is one of the largest SAP projects in Poland, covering over 7,000 employees from 19
entities having their own HR departments.
SAP implementation in the Warsaw Municipal Government Office covered areas of key importance for
management of the city – finances and controlling (including the budget accounting functionality FI-FM
– Funds Management, being part of the SAP solution for public institution management, and the HR
and payroll area. There were over 100 people involved in the project – Municipal Office employees,
Sygnity specialists responsible for implementation in the area of finances, and BCC consultants,
responsible for the undertaking in the HR and payroll area.
The volume of funds „flowing” through SAP FI every year and the number of employees served by
SAP HR rank this project among the largest undertakings of this type in the public sector in Poland
over the last years. Warsaw has assets worth 88.5 bn zlotys, and an annual budget of 6 bn zlotys,
designated for financing multifarious tasks imposed on that self-government entity. They include,
among others, transport and communication, education, environmental protection, maintenance of
municipal properties, as well as road investments, construction, maintenance and modernization of
public utility buildings. The planning, execution and settlement of all those tasks is supervised by over
7,000 regular employees working in the Town Hall and 18 in district offices, under the management of
the Mayor of the City of Warsaw.
„Implementation of an integrated SAP system is a kind of breakthrough in managing the urban
structure of the capital. The availability of new IT tools creates the right conditions for effective
management of the city’s estate and the entrusted funds, as well as for better utilization of the
potential of our office personnel. All this allows us to better fulfill our mission, which is serving the
community of the inhabitants of Warsaw – a city of special importance for the whole country” – said
Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, Mayor of the City of Warsaw..
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BCC (Business Consulting Center sp. z o.o.) – a Polish consulting company, which specializes in services
connected with SAP solutions – among others, in complex implementations, development and outsourcing of SAP
in large enterprises and international corporations.
BCC has been engaged in SAP implementations since 1995, and has the largest experience in implementing
SAP in Poland. The number of customers which have used BCC services exceeds 200 companies from Poland
and a dozen or so other countries. They include, among others,. ABB, Amica, AmRest, Antalis, BASF, Ferrero,
GlaxoSmithKline, Metro Group, Żywiec Group, Hortex, ING Bank Śląski, Kompania Piwowarska, PKN Orlen,
Volkswagen Group and Wolters Kluwer.
BCC is one of the largest companies dealing with SAP in Central and Eastern Europe, which employs over 200
SAP consultants. Nominated SAP Golden Partner, BCC enjoys also the status of SAP Hosting Partner, as well as
SAP Expert Partner in the following areas: Business Intelligence (SAP BW data warehouse, and strategic
enterprise management - SAP SEM), customer relations management - SAP CRM, SAP NetWeaver integration
platform, and human capital management solutions - SAP HR/SAP HCM. More information at: www.bcc.com.pl
The BCC Group supports company and institution management by delivering advanced IT tools as well as
consulting and outsourcing solutions. In addition to BCC sp. z o.o., the BCC Capital Group contains:
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7milowy sp. z o.o., which specializes in implementations of management solutions for medium-size
companies (SAP, Microsoft Dynamics AX and Microsoft CRM)

External Services sp. z o.o., which provides administration and accounting services, as well as services
related to acquisition of EU funds, for customers in the MSE sector.
The Group’s companies have their headquarters in the Nickel Technology Park Poznań (NTPP), in Złotniki near.
Poznań.
More information about the BCC Group companies at:
www.7milowy.pl, www.externalservices.pl
Sygnity S.A. was established through a merger of ComputerLand and Emax companies’ competences. The
company is listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (SGN). In 2008, the Sygnity Group generated revenues of over
PLN 1 billion. It employs more than 2 000 people, including experts with extensive information technology
knowledge and specialists with professional experience. Sygnity offers its own solutions, supplemented with
international products and technologies. It provides a complete range of services, from consulting, through
execution to outsourcing of information technology projects for large and medium companies in the key sectors of
economy and public administration institutions. At present, the Sygnity Group is made up of a dozen companies in
Poland and abroad. The biggest companies include, next to Sygnity SA, ARAM – that realizes IT projects for the
public administration, Projekty Bankowe Polsoft – a producer of software for the bank and finance sector and the
centre for software testing, WINUEL – producer of solutions for the energy sector, Max Elektronik SA – a
producer of software based on modern information technology (including Java Computing). More information is
available at: http://www.sygnity.pl
SAP is a leading business solution provider worldwide. At present, as many as 47,000 customers from over 120
countries are using SAP® software — from solutions meeting the needs of small and medium companies to
extended systems of solutions for global organizations. In Poland, SAP solutions are used by about 1,100
companies and institutions. SAP business solutions help enterprises all over the world deepen relations with their
customers, optimize cooperation with their partners, and ensure effectiveness of their supply and business action
chains. The solutions are based on the SAP NetWeaver™ platform, which supports introduction of changes and
business innovations. The SAP offer includes also sector-oriented solutions, which support specific business
processes from over 25 business sectors, such as high-tech industry, commerce, public institutions and financial
services. SAP has branches in over 50 countries and is listed on several stock exchanges, including the Frankfurt
and New York stock exchanges, under the SAP symbol. SAP has been present in Poland since 1995. More
information on SAP can be found at: www.sap.pl and www.sap.com
Additional information on behalf of BCC is provided by:
Magdalena Jakimiak
BCC Group Promotion and PR Specialit
mobile: + 48 695 877 726
e-mail: [email protected]