Britehouse, Africa's most highly certified SAP business partner and also SAP's only African cloud-certified partner, is to make available SAP Business One OnDemand via a channel, including telcos, ISPs, and institutions enabling these selected providers the opportunity to offer customers a complete ERP in the cloud business service.
This is the first SAP Business One OnDemand offering in Africa, and makes available to small and medium-sized organisations all the benefits of a full-function ERP system at a per user monthly cost in the order of R1 000.
Ryan Todd, Business One Unit Manager, believes this cloud offering of SAP Business One OnDemand will change the face of business on the continent. "It gives small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) something they've never had before - access to all the business benefits of SAP software at a rate of affordability that is simply not possible with an on-premises installation, even of SAP Business One.
Henry Varges, Managing Director of Britehouse vPS, maintains: "South African and African SMEs will have more information about their own businesses and their customers on which to base strategic and operational decisions, making them more efficient, and therefore, more competitive".
"This is in line with SAP's own strategy - of helping businesses, and as a consequence, entire economies run better. We share that strategy, which is why we've worked closely with SAP for the past two years to develop a distribution model for SAP Business One OnDemand that will enable the largest possible number of SMEs to gain the benefits of ERP in the cloud," says Varges.
"It's for that reason that we'll run a control and command service from Britehouse, enabling telcos, ISPs, and, for instance, financial institutions, to bundle SAP Business One OnDemand into their own value added services to SMEs.
"So, in addition to gaining the enormous advantages of using the world's best business software, tailored to their needs, end-user customers also have the comfort of working through a brand that is not only familiar to them, but also provides them with ancillary benefits, such as, in the case of telcos or ISPs, converged communications services, or, in the case of financial services institution, business support," says Warren Small, Business Development Director.
"In other words, through our channel model, end-user customers get a range of services, including affordable access to intuitive business software, bundled in the way that makes most sense for their particular operations. And they get it all through one service provider, rather than having to manage a range of different providers."
SAP Business One OnDemand enables telcos, ISPs, and other suppliers to offer the SME market a compelling business proposition.
It provides complete, integrated business functionality that can be deployed quickly. Todd says customers have been activated and enabled, including data take-on, within three days. Specialised operational needs can be addressed with add-ons. SAP Business One OnDemand also enables control of costs, through a single monthly payment that covers software, service, and support.
The customer organisation is assured of ongoing innovation, as the cloud solution is automatically maintained and updated, and world-class security is in place.
From a business perspective, SAP Business One OnDemand integrated capabilities enable the customer to streamline operations and increase business insight, reduce IT cost by avoiding the large capital outlay needed for traditional software implementations, minimise IT overhead by decreasing the need to hire experienced IT management and support staff, and increase business agility through the rapid deployment of support for business processes capable of exploiting new opportunities.
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