Behind the scenes of Taronga Conservation Society Australia’s renowned zoos is a complex enterprise landscape spanning finance, HR, procurement, and analytics. Fragmentation across these systems created inefficiencies, technical debt, and barriers to scale — challenges familiar to every architect.Taronga made a decisive shift away from Best of Breed, adopting a unified SAP ecosystem with RISE with SAP S/4HANA at its core, integrated with Ariba, Concur, SuccessFactors, and SAP Analytics Cloud. This was more than an ERP project — it was an enterprise architecture transformation. By consolidating platforms, embedding integration and governance, and aligning IT and business strategy, Taronga built a digital foundation designed for agility, efficiency, and future growth.In this session, learn how Taronga approached platform unification from an architectural perspective: designing a clean core, streamlining integration, and building an operating model that balances innovation with standardisation.Key Takeaways- How Taronga shifted from Best of Breed to an integrated SAP architecture to reduce complexity and risk.- Lessons on embedding governance, integration, and clean core principles into enterprise design.- Insights for architects on aligning IT and business strategy to deliver a sustainable digital foundation.