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Achieving the ISO 27001 certification confirms that all our processes and technologies comply with strict international information security standards.
Our clients can rely on the fact that their data – whether in the area of SAP solutions, cloud services, or AI integrations – is in safe hands.

With full commitment and for several customers, we are implementing adjustments regarding the value added tax return. Both in SAP standard and non-standard solutions. Of course, the goal is to meet the August reporting deadline.

This year, our team opened the summer season with a joint goulash. This year was even better than last year in every way.

We have implemented several projects for the calculation and withholding of financial transaction tax solutions. We have implemented solutions in financial institutions as well as in industrial companies.

At the beginning of the year, we successfully accepted the first instant payments at the SZRB Bank. We managed the demanding project thanks to the professionalism and maximum commitment of our and the customer team.

Immediately after the announcement and approval of the changes, we began to fully focus on this topic in order to be able to help dozens of our customers adopt their settings and processes in SAP solutions to these changes. These are mainly changes in the area of ​​VAT and transaction tax. The project was successfully implemented and the statements were successfully reported.

In the 2nd half of the year, we successfully migrated the existing databases to SAP HANA at our customers on the agreed date: • Thyssenkrupp rothe erde Slovakia, where we migrated from Oracle DB • VÚB Generali DSS, where we migrated from ASE DB The migration significantly contributed to the acceleration of work with SAP systems

Experts from Slovakodata are key members of the implementation team performing the euroconversion in the Bulgarian Insurance Company. After the analytical phase and several tests, they are currently preparing for productive migration.

On May 23, SLOVAKODATA celebrated its 30th birthday :) We look forward to the next years and many more successful projects and satisfied clients.

In 1Q/2024, Prvá stavebná sporitelná successfully launched the converted SAP S/4HANA system into productive operation, which also included the latest version of the SAP HR system localized into the Slovak language (HCM for S/4HANA). The success of the implementation is evidenced by the low number of tickets during productive operation, as well as the gratitude of the directors of individual customer departments.

At the beginning of October, we climbed Jánošíkové Diery together and some of us even Malý Rozsutec. A week later, we spent a pleasant time during goose feast and with some good wine in Slovenský Grob.

The start of Q3/23 was also the start of the operational use of the solution for registration, approval and settlement of travel reimbursements in IS SAP. Efforts devoted in the previous months to analysis, settings, development and thorough testing have resulted in acceleration, standardization and digitalization of the entire process.

The quality of our processes and compliance with the standard was also confirmed during recertification to ISO 9001:2015. We obtained the certificate for 3 years.

On this day, all stages of modifications to the DSS Core system were successfully completed in order to implement all legislative changes in the 2nd pension pillar. These were gradually deployed during the previous 10 months. We believe that the changes will bring improvements for DSS as well as its savers.

This May, our company begins its 30th year of existence :) We look forward to the next years and many more successful projects and satisfied clients.

For our long term customer, we performed complex data archiving in all important SAP ERP modules. We managed to fulfill the defined goals: reduce the size of the database and stabilize the speed of the SAP system.

Slovakodata a.s. successfully completed the Euro conversion project in Croatia in a major insurance institution with which we have been cooperating for a long time.

Slovakodata a.s. successfully completed the implementation of S4/HANA - RISE in the private cloud for a major financial institution. FI, CO, MM, SD modules were implemented. The start of productive operation was 01.01.2023. Cooperation will continue on the basis of the Service Level Agreement.

For already one year, there has been an ongoing partnership between Vienna Quantum Consulting and SLOVAKODATA. Currently, cooperation in the areas of SAP project management and SAP Finance will be expanded. The SAP Project is accompanied by professional qualified experts from SLOVAKODATA.

On 16.6. we organized a seminar for new and regular customers, where we presented our news as well as current topics from the world of SAP and its Add-ons. The covered topics were following: S/4HANA, News in the area of circulation of invoices (SII), Platon – a tool for budget creating, forecasting and modeling, VAT liability and control of bank accounts, Digitalisation in HCM.

At the end of 2021, we expanded our SAP add-on VAT Liability, thus reflecting the legislative change - the obligation to verify the list of VAT payer’s bank accounts (valid from 1.1.2022) published on the financial administration portal related to VAT liability. Our new solutions: automatically ensures the download and processing of the list of VAT payers’ bank accounts they use for business into the SAP system; perform verification of bank accounts that are intended for business. The following are checked: bank accounts of VAT payers on master data of business partners (suppliers, customers); individual open items of suppliers and customers; verifies payment proposal items; implements ad-hoc checks and reports in modules FI, MM, KDF, SII. In the period 1Q / 2022, an intensive add-on implementation took place in dozens of different SAP environments of our customers.

On August 31, 2021, with the consent of the Czech National Bank and the National Bank of Slovakia, the insurance companies UNIQA pojišťovna, a.s., AXA životní pojišťovna a.s., AXA pojišťovna a.s. and UNIQA insurance company, a.s. were merged. Our SAP system experts helped translate this integration process into SAP. The project ran throughout 2021 and consisted of the preparation of the target concept, support during implementation, multiple testing, training and support during data migration. We believe that our hard work has also succeeded in accomplishing this complex process of merger.

We have successfully implemented our SAP add-on developed to cover this legislative requirement as effectively as possible in the period 4Q / 2018 - 2Q / 2019 in the following countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia. This important project, called Bestellanforderung elektronisch (eBanf, Abruf, eLieferungs- / Leistungsbestätigung), has been deployed in productive operation since 4Q / 2021 after a year of implementation. It focused on the complete electronicization of approval processes in purchasing documents of the SAP system: • Requests • Orders • Receipts Work with these objects takes place in both the classic SAP ERP environment and the modern SAP Fiori environment, designed primarily for tablets and mobile devices. The solution was deployed in productive operation in several stages, divided according to organizational units. Currently, every VW department uses the solution we have prepared. Objective: to speed up, simplify the approval process and eliminate paper circulation of documents, we have achieved together with our customer.

Our long-term customer is also aware of the importance of keeping its key information systems in TOP condition. As part of the upgrade project, we updated all system components and databases to their latest versions. In this way, we have contributed to increasing the security, reliability and the speed of the systems. At the same time, we prepared them for the planned transition to S / 4HANA, resp. BW / 4HANA version The project took place during the full operation of the bank and within a pre-agreed schedule. It required the maximum commitment and concentration of our experts in banking processes in ERP and BW processes as well. Great importance was placed on the control and possible elimination of incompatibilities in the framework of customer development. The project lasted 5 months and we successfully completed it in 3Q / 2021.

Upgrading a financial institution’s core system is always a challenging task. We successfully dealt with this in a period of 4 months and completed the project in 2Q / 2021. The subject of the upgrade was the key system for DSS, including its database and operating system. After the initial analysis and design of the solution, we performed the upgrade itself and began detailed testing. The individual findings were removed in time and we were able to proceed with a productive upgrade. We have fully fulfilled the set goal of updating all system components to their latest versions and thus ensuring their support for the next longer period.

Our experts to payment system in the SAP have successfully completed a 4-year project focused on the implementation of SWIFT Net - Unifying Electronic Banking Connection. The goal was to unify all payment interfaces within the MOL group and various SAP systems into one unified communication channel. An integral part of it was the solution we developed and implemented in the SAP system environment. During 6 stages, several banks and several accounting areas were implemented, including Slovnaft, a.s. The goals of the project: unification of interfaces, reduction of work in future developments of banking interfaces, information on the status of real-time payment processing were over-met and the project was internationally awarded. Both FI and HR payments were covered.

In order to improve the electronics of SAP HR processes and their subsequent roll-out to other organizational units and groups of employees, we embarked on this project in the autumn of 2019, so a year later we could declare together with the customer: “SUCCESSFUL”. During the individual stages, the inefficiencies of previous processes were analyzed and then were proposed the solutions. After their successful implementation, we proceeded to the actual roll-out of HR processes supported by the SAP ESS / MSS and Fiori systems. The solution was subsequently made available to thousands of employees.

Our company also has one exceptional and demanding portfolio in its portfolio of successful projects, which took place during pandemic measures. Limited working conditions such as interruptions at the customer’s premises, work from home as well as alternative solutions for common activities performed in the work environment, presented us and our customer with a difficult challenge that we managed to overcome together within 10 months thanks to the personal commitment of each project team member. The project consisted of strong preparation and analysis, the results of which were described in detail in the Target Concept. The implementation included preparatory steps before migration as well as migration to newer operating and database systems so that it would then be possible to run tools for the conversion of the ERP system to the S/4 HANA system. The conversion of the system itself was performed by the SUM tool and the built-in tools in the SAP system. The completion of the conversion was verified by detailed testing and verification of the functionality of SAP systems and modules. Our customer now has the latest version of SAP with the possibility of using new and modern applications such as FIORI. We believe that the customer will not be able to resist this invitation to the modern world of SAP and will decide to move forward in the innovations.

At the beginning of the year, we completed a 3-month analysis of the SAP banking system and SAP BW system as well in the terms of their future transition to the latest generation of SAP systems. The analysis comprehensively assessed the systems in terms of individual levels and components (hardware, database, licensing requirements, application layer in the scope of all implemented modules, customer programs and user environment). The outputs were written into a detailed study, which was presented to the customer. We are looking forward to using this document as a basis for the future transition to S / 4HANA and BW / 4HANA systems.

In accordance with the new Slovak national standard for PSD2, the possibility of controlled and secure opening of access to banking information to verified and authorized third parties (TPP - Third Party Providers) and enabling verified and authorized TPPs to initiate payments for the client and subsequently perform their authorization was implemented. After the analysis of the requirements and the preparation of the target concept, the implementation of the API compatible with PSD2 took place within 3Q / 2019 within the electronic banking system. This was followed by internal testing as well as integration testing with a selected TPP subject. After successful testing in terms of functionality and important security, the solution was deployed in productive operation. The bank is currently ready to communicate with licensed TPPs such as: • AISP (Account Information Service Provider) • PISP (Payment Initiation Service Provider) • PIISP (Payment Instrument Issuer Service Provider)

The new international accounting standard IFRS16, which talks about leasing and became valid from 1 January 2019, was also the subject of our implementation in individual Generali CEE Holding companies. We have successfully implemented our SAP add-on developed to cover this legislative requirement as effectively as possible in the period 4Q / 2018 - 2Q / 2019 in the following countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia. The project consisted of analysis activities and preparation of the target concept, subsequent implementation, connection to SAP modules FI, FI-AA, CO, MM, training and two-way testing. Data migration was completed by a gradual go-live. Since its implementation, the add-on has undergone additional developments required by our customers to help even more significantly with the systemic coverage of this legislative requirement.

After analytical work and detailed design in 2018, in the first half of 2019 we implemented a new data warehouse, which is the main component for various types of reports and analyses of our customer. The project consisted of creating a data warehouse in the MS SQL environment and its automated and regular execution from the data of the SAP ERP system, especially accounting, property and controlling. A detailed data consistency check was implemented after the daily data transmissions. By using delta transmissions and other optimization metrics, one of the main goals of the project was achieved – a significant reduction in the time of updating data in the data warehouse.

From 1 January 2019, International Accounting Standard IAS 17 was replaced by IFRS16. The objective of the new standard is to distinguish leasing from service contracts and ensure that companies report all liabilities and assets related to leasing in the balance sheet. To meet this legislative requirement, we developed our own SAP add-on starting in 2018. It was subsequently implemented in several Allianz organizational units operating in the following countries: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Poland, Romania, Russia and Slovakia. The project consisted of analysis and preparation of the target concept, implementation, training, two-way testing and data migration, and was completed by gradual go-lives in each country during 2Q / 2019.

The newco EGIT INT decided to implement a pilot for the Erste Group based on S4HANA and covering the ERP module, the contract management (with CUContract) and the SAP BPC solution. Slovakodata supported the program manager for the three projects and the contract department as business analyst.

SLOVAKODATA, as the main partner, participated at the SAP FORUM 2017 conference at x-bionic® sphere in Šamorín, where through presentation stand and presentation presented the complex ERP solutions of the new SAP S/4HANA generation.All about the conference can be found at: http://events.sap.com/en/sap-forum-2017/en/home

Since November 2015, Slovakodata’s consultants have been part of the team that implements the SWIFT project for a large refinery company. The role of our consultants is to solve SAP related tasks. This project was awarded the “Best Swift solution” that was awarded by the company Adam Smith Awards for 2017.

During last year, SLOVAKODATA has supported SNP to perform the spinoff of a division within an internationally acting company, based in Europe. The supported project phase involved several countries in Europe and North America. All the business data has been migrated into an SAP one client target system prepared for the new company. During the migration, data transformation has been applied so that the migrated data was compliant with the target SAP systems environment. All countries went live as planned and with the expected quality.“With this project SNP AUSTRIA and SLOVAKODATA have proven to be compatible partners, especially in an international project environment and are planning to intensify future cooperation.”Gerald Huhn – Managing Director SNP Austria

Also this year SLOVAKODATA will join the conference SAP Forum Slovakia 2016 at Hotel X-BIONIC, in Šamorín on May, 26th – 27th. As a SAP partner in Slovakia which always looked to the new challenges with a balanced mix of human curiosity, professional interest and business opportunity, SLOVAKODATA is glad to present this year some Fiori applications based on the just released SAP platform HCP (HANA Cloud Platform).We will be happy to meet you there, sure that the topic of this year will represent a good occasion to improve the way you do business. We also invite you stopping at our stand before and/or after the presentation to give you more insight about HCP and Fiori or other products within our large offer of services.

This year during the Annual Conference of the Slovak – Italian Chamber of Commerce (CAMIT) held at Felkensteiner Hotel in Bratislava, our company has been presented to all the conference members. This step introduced SLOVAKODATA into a more active cooperation with the members of CAMIT; our interest is to serve as best also the Italian companies installed in Slovakia offering them also the possibility to communicate in Italian.On the other side, our experience in implementing business processes in SAP represents an advantage for all our customers which can benefit by solutions tailored to their needs and modular. Our next steps now will be to attend the next events organized by CAMIT such as “Speed Business” visits to the most important producers or manufacturers in Slovakia and in the closest countries.

SLOVAKODATA presented its best-praxis experience with the implementation of SAP S/4 HANA - Simple Finance at the conference SAP Forum Slovensko 2015… On demand we very much like to provide more information on minimum requirements, project- and time plan and further benefits when upgrading the system to a level of a new generation.

SLOVAKODATA is going to join the conference SAP Forum Slovakia 2015… we will tell about our experiences with implementation of financial solutions of the Simple Finance new generation.

Slovakodata has been called to participate to the project in Roche (Basel) to implement the new company Roche Diabetics Care as spin-off of Diagnostic… The role of our consultants was to lead the Migration Team and assure that all the task were executed on time and budget.

Since today, March 17th, Slovakodata is member of the Italian - Slovak Chamber of Commerce in Bratislava. The aim of this cooperation is to supply ICT and business services to the other members supporting their initiatives in Slovakia and Italy as well.

IntesaSanPaolo Group Services (ISGS) has launched a project with the aim of improving the procurement process and reducing operating costs… Slovakodata has been involved in arranging the SAP training for the end users and to arrange the support to the users during the after GO LIVE period.

Slovakodata, a.s. became during its 20years history a company which is able to implement projects not only in the Slovak and Czech Republic but also in further countries. In addition to the historical cooperation with the corporation Prysmian Group Australia our consultants perform services in the area FS-CD for a famous insurance company in South Africa and in CML for a bank in Saudi-Arabia. During the last years we successfully realized projects also in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, France, Serbia, Ukraine, Malaysia, Australia and the Philippines.

Slovakodata was a general partner on the SAP Forum 2014 Slovakia and Czech conference, which was held on 22nd and 23rd of May 2014 in Brno. The part of SAP Forum 2014 was also a presentation of our colleague Roman Janos on the topic about SAP Information Lifecycle Management (SAP ILM) – information also have their life cycle.

IntesaSanPaolo Group Services (ISGS) has launched a project to centralize the procurement for all the banks in the Eastern Europe (almost 15 banks) and VUB has been the pilot project. The project started at the beginning of last year and went live on Jan 2014. The target of the project was to implement the new organizational model and the interfaces between the SAP One Client solution, installed in Italy, and the local legacy systems in VUB. Our participation, as SAP partner and also business expert in centralization project, had the focus to bring in VUB the knowledge necessary to highlight the GAP between the current business model and the new centralized one together with the Project Management methodology already used in similar projects. Moreover, we have been involved in arranging the SAP training for the end users and the user support after GO LIVE. The project is now running in a fine tuning phase. „We have really appreciate the support given on both content and methodology by the Slovakodata consultants involved in the project and we consider, together with their SAP skills and experience, it has been a fundamental boost and contribution to the successful conclusion of the project.“ Andrea De Michelis, CFO and Board Member VUB, Project sponsor

Slovakodata offers support for the generating of the control statement for user of the SAP system. For our customers we provide consulting, realization and support for the implementation of SAP notes so that all obligations of the Slovak legislation will be met by the SAP system. Slovakodata performs implementation support for both new and old SAP versions.

Following the example of Slovakia now Latvia is going to introduce the Euro 01.01.2014 for domestic payments. Slovakodata will bring in experiences gained from the Euro introduction in Slovakia for the project of a famous Scandinavian bank and its subsidiary in Latvia. Consultants of Slovakodata take part in the project and support our partner in Stockholm.

Slovakodata may announce a further successfully realized project at the Slovak Guarantee and Development Bank. The update project of the whole banking information system from ECC 5.0 to ECC 6.0 EHP 6 started February 1st 2013 and went live in planed date. The Banking System of the Slovak Guarantee and Development Bank is running now on the latest known SAP version.

Slovakodata acted as partner for the banking conference IIR 2013 which took place in the Hotel Park Inn Danube Bratislava between 11 – 12.6.2013. Know-how and experiences were presented beyond banking projects, e.g. also in the following competences: CRM, Business intelligence, SAP GRC, Document workflow, etc.

After three successful introductions of Rollouts for Vetropack in Slovakia, Czech and Croatia one more Rollout project (to Ukraine - Vetropack Gostomel Glass Factory JSC) is in progress to be realized. The project will be realized together with the long-term partner Lodestone Management Consultants. Modules: FI, CO, SD, MM/WM, PP, Waste Management.

From 1 February 2013 we started to upgrade the core banking information system in SZRB. Also started upgrade of SMART solution PE to 2.0 with SEPA support. Activities: analysis, customization, training, testing, go-live support.

Vetropack GO LIVE supported by Slovakodata – January 2013. International rollout for Vetropack Nemšová (SK), Kyjov (CZ), Straža (HR). Work in international team. High user motivation and professional approach.

On 18.1.2013 Miroslav Polakovič became CEO of SLOVAKODATA. He has been with the company since 1994 and is one of the founders. Former CEO Peter Maťašek will focus on strategic development.

Together with Lodestone Management Consultants (Zurich), SLOVAKODATA rolls-out the whole „Vetropack SAP group solution“ for Slovakia, Czech Republic and Croatia. Modules include FI, CO, SD, MM/WM, PP, Waste Management.

Project Management training session included a game called “The Catapult” to balance fun and learning. Goal: maximize launches into target while adjusting catapult settings. High engagement from participants.

Since 1.7.2012 Slovakodata strengthened its sales department and appointed 4 new managing directors: Roman Jánoš, Jozef Šuran, Marián Šandor, Massimo Barberio.

Slovakodata presented ESS/MSS solution for mobile HR management at SAP Forum 2012 in Bratislava, emphasizing modern workforce needs and SAP portal capabilities.

Ongoing cooperation with Generali on project 'SIRAEL LIFE' expanded to include consulting and programming for SAP FS-CD migration.

Development of a web application (Timesheet Data Collection) for Prysmian Group to track production efficiency (OEE, NCA) – pilot project launched in Australia.

Modules FI and CO were successfully delivered to InsData GmbH Nitra (UNIQA Gruppe) based on corporate template, incl. local legislative customizations.

Successful recertification by TUV NORD CERT under ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 10006:2003 for project management and IT implementation.

Slovakodata selected as implementation partner for InsData (UNIQA Group) SAP roll-out, Go-live planned 01.01.2012.

Participation as main SAP partner at SAP World Tour Slovakia. Presentation on SAP GRC Access Control for risk management.

Started cooperation with Honeywell Brno, expanding to HR-implementation and data migration services in SAP.

Go-live for Allianz Rosno Non-Life with multiple SAP modules including FI, AA, CO, MM, SD, FSCD, CFM, BW, DMS/WF.

Opened representative office in Munich to support international activities.

Held 8th annual Slovakodata Open Air sports event for customers and partners with wide participation and entertainment.

Continued cooperation on new SAP client project for Danube Region. Future expansion planned to Asia and Australia.

Completed currency conversion for HBPO in GB (GBP to EUR) and Canada (CAD to USD), continuing cooperation.

Documented success of SAP implementation at Slovak Guarantee and Development Bank as reference for future clients.

Ongoing support including development and implementation of accounting and invoicing solutions in SAP.

Agreement with TRILUX for SAP support and development activities in Germany and its subsidiaries.

Currency conversion project for HBPO GmbH successfully carried out for branches in UK and Canada.