Johannesburg, 26 Sep 2012
SAP's South African Alliance Partner, and the only company on the continent to offer the full spectrum of SAP solutions, services and products, Britehouse SSD has achieved Gold Partner status as a value-added reseller (VAR) of SAP software, only eight months after signing the VAR agreement.
Britehouse CEO Paolo Masselli attributes the speed of the achievement to the fact that Britehouse is fully aligned with SAP's roadmap. "We're not just resellers. We offer an end-to-end SAP service that supports SAP's strategic focus areas: cloud, mobile, analytics, database and technology services.
"The significance of this to our customers is that SAP invests more than any other business solutions company in researching market trends and business requirements, designing its solutions to fully optimise the way organisations operate - today and tomorrow. So, by aligning ourselves with SAP's focus areas, we're best positioned to make our own customers best-run, future-proofed organisations.
"When we make recommendations regarding SAP software, therefore, organisations have the comfort of knowing that we understand their entire SAP landscape in the context of their particular business strategy, and that we make our recommendations based on a powerful, practical ability to enhance what they do rather than simply notching up another software sale.
"That makes us a major asset on the continent for SAP. And, of course, as a Gold Partner, we qualify for equally major benefits, including discounts, from SAP.
"But, for us and our customers, the most crucial aspect of Britehouse's close relationship with SAP is that our customers get the most relevant, life cycle-managed, overall solution for the growth and agility of their organisations."
As both an SAP Africa service alliance partner and an SAP Africa SME business partner, Britehouse has the highest SAP partnership certification. Among its extensive range of product- or solution-specific certifications, Britehouse can lay claim to being Africa's only SAP-certified cloud partner, South Africa's largest and most successful SAP Analytics partner, and SAP's first and only African partner to have achieved advanced hosting certification. Britehouse also has certification as a RunSAP partner and as an SAP Education partner.
"Everything we do is aimed at enabling organisations to spend less money running the past and free up the money they need to spend on the future," Masselli says. "In the future business environment, organisations' IT spend needs to shift away from a maintenance focus - which limits them to trying to reduce complexity, cost, time and risk - towards making themselves more competitive, by having the capacity to innovate, change and collaborate - at speed.
"Achieving SAP Gold Partner status rounds off our capacity to help organisations do this."
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