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Team Vitality announces SAP Technology Integration to Accelerate International Development

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6 years ago

November 23, 2020

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SAP France is pleased to announce that it will support leading global esports organisation Team Vitality in its digital transformation as it uses SAP solutions to accelerate its international development. SAP solutions are used across sports to increase team performance in football, basketball, and tennis.

Team Vitality will use three key SAP solutions to effectively manage its growth and support the financial management of its activities. Using the three SAP solutions enables Team Vitality to optimise all its processes including monitoring of contracts, improved data management, automation of tasks, and better knowledge of the company’s financial flows. In the long term, Team Vitality will push the use of SAP solutions even further, to impact all the company’s branches, and support it in its international growth.

Being a data analytics and innovation partner of professional sports organizations like the WTA, NBA, Team Liquid, and FC Bayern, SAP is intensifying the scope of its ERP offering in esports. In addition to player performance management, SAP also seeks to engage fans with its innovative technologies. By integrating financial management and marketing engagement tools, SAP strengthens the competitiveness of esports teams by accelerating their digital transformation. And why not, tomorrow, continue along the path of the “Digital Athlete”?

Team Vitality will leverage a series of SAP solutions including:

SAP Business By Design®, a cloud-based ERP for optimising finance, purchases, and inventory management.
SAP Cloud Platform®, an integration and extension platform for simplifying exchanges with the company’s ecosystem.
SAP Analytics Cloud®, an augmented and multi-source analytics solution for optimising and accelerating decision-making.

“We operate more than one business model at a time: we make retail sales via our website, we develop marketing contracts with different brands and we also generate content. It was, therefore, necessary to have several tools grouped together in a single, easy-to-access interface to be able to manage all these activities,” says Sonia Manueco, CFO at Team Vitality.

“Thanks to SAP, we have all the components we need to go even further: we want to continue improving our operations by automating all of our legal, quality, and logistics processes. The long-term objective is also to use all the data we retrieve from our platforms, such as Twitch and Twitter, to be able to make the connection between interactions with our fans and purchases on our webshop,” concludes Franck Boniface, COO at Team Vitality.

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Sends CEO Alona Shevtsova moderates Global Gaming Expansion panel in Riyadh

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4 hours ago

June 25, 2026

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Alona Shevtsova, CEO of Sends, will moderate a panel at The Blockchain show on 29^th June, bringing together experts from entertainment, location-based gaming, and content localisation to examine what it takes to build sustainable gaming ecosystems across emerging markets.

The panel, titled “Global Gaming Expansion: Lessons from Untapped Markets,” will structure its discussion across four themes: the growth dynamics reshaping emerging gaming markets; the role of localisation in creating experiences that genuinely connect with new audiences; the infrastructure and communities needed to build gaming ecosystems beyond the game itself; and the lessons and opportunities that will define successful expansion in the years ahead.

Alona Shevtsova plans to frame the discussion around the central challenge for companies looking to expand globally: entering a new market requires far more than bringing an existing product to a new audience. Understanding local cultures, building communities, adapting experiences, and creating ecosystems that allow gaming to grow sustainably are all as important as the product itself.

Alona Shevtsova, CEO of Sends, said:

“The future growth of gaming will come not only from new technologies, but from understanding people — their cultures, communities, and the experiences they want to be part of. Successful expansion will belong to those who can combine global ambition with local understanding.”

The first segment will examine why regions including the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia are becoming increasingly significant for developers, operators, and investors — driven by young audiences, accelerating digital adoption, and new entertainment models creating substantial growth potential. Panellists will explore how consumer preferences differ across markets and what trends among younger audiences are shaping the future of gaming and entertainment.

The third segment will broaden the lens beyond the game itself, exploring the role of location-based entertainment, gaming centres, esports, and experiential destinations in attracting new audiences and building long-term communities. Panellists plan to address how entertainment ecosystems — spanning physical venues, events, and community infrastructure — accelerate gaming adoption in markets where the category is still establishing itself.

Earlier this month, Alona Shevtsova was shortlisted for the 2026 Great British Entrepreneur Awards in the Established Business of the Year category. Her team is also preparing for the Fintech Connect conference in London later this year. Sends will be a leading sponsor of this event.

*Sends is a trade name of SMARTFLOW PAYMENTS LIMITED, registered in England and Wales (Company No.11070048). For more information, visit sends.co .

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