EDS Enterprise Solutions has obtained SAP national logo partner status, thereby strengthening the relationship between SAP Southern Africa and EDS Africa.
"This announcement is a significant step forward in our relationship," says Shaun Schmidt, MD of EDS Enterprise Solutions. "This is a continuation of a process that began one year ago, when EDS established a joint venture with the management team that currently leads Enterprise Solutions. One of our goals was to enhance our presence in the SAP market place. The accreditation will improve our national sales and delivery co-operation and our Global Logo Partner status with SAP-AG."
EDS Enterprise Solutions is an ERP consultancy specialising in business operation improvements using ERP as a tool. EDS provides operations support to a number of South Africa`s leading organisations. Collectively this represents a force of over 100 dedicated SAP professionals in South Africa. Ron Ayres, MD of EDS Africa says: "We and SAP Southern Africa are both dominant in our respective markets. We haven`t yet fully exploited the huge potential of the relationship between our two organisations in South Africa. We will be using this partnership to seek creative ways of lowering the cost of ownership of a SAP system and of delivering additional value to current and future clients. There are a number of exciting possibilities."
EDS Enterprise Solutions has two main priorities for the relationship for 1999. The first is to enhance the value of the investment of companies that have already implemented SAP through its Value Realisation service offering. The second is to extend the use of the ASAP (AcceleratedSAP) methodology for first-time clients to reduce implementation timeframes and costs.
According to George Oertel, MD of SAP Southern Africa, the company`s partnership with EDS Enterprise Solutions will help drive its recently launched TeamSAP initiative to enable clients to benefit from the joint commitment to deliver rapid and cost effective implementations, thereby increasing their return on investment.
"EDS Enterprise Solutions is committed to supporting SAP Southern Africa ASAP methodology and will drive to increase the number of ASAP implementations. This will also allow mutual clients to take advantage more rapidly of the business benefits resulting from their R/3 projects, quickly leveraging a return on investment."
"In fact, current ASAP customers have experienced savings ranging between 30 and 50 percent, proving this approach as the most comprehensive for rapid, cost-effective R/3 implementations," he says. Editor`s
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EDS is a leader in the global information services industry. The company`s more than 120 000 employees specialise in applying a range of ideas and technologies to help business and government clients improve their finances, products, services and relationships. EDS, which serves clients in 45 countries, reported revenues of US $16.9 billion in 1998. The company`s stock is traded on the New York and London stock exchanges. EDS Africa has grown rapidly since opening its doors in South Africa in 1995, increasing its staff complement from 600 to over 2 000, often taking on staff from client companies in outsourcing deals. Visit EDS via the Internet at http://www.eds.com and EDS Africa at http://www.za.eds.com
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