SCT Services and SAP have jointly announced an additional licensing and delivery option for SAP Business All-in-One solutions.
This is achieved through a subscription-based hosted delivery model by which customers can obtain the business application that already provides a great richness of industry-specific, pre-configured processes and best practices and is easily customisable.
The new option is targeted at helping midsize companies get started with a lower upfront cost by eliminating the capital outlay traditionally required for acquiring a software licence or IT hardware. In addition, customers avoid upfront software licensing fees and hardware purchase charges - freeing them from the need to maintain or support an on-premise solution within their own IT infrastructure.
The hosted delivery model is available from SAP partners that participate in the SAP Business All-in-One fast-start programme, and who are certified by SAP to provide application management and hosting services for SAP Business All-in-One solutions. The subscription-based hosted delivery model for SAP Business All-in-One solutions are available immediately on a two, three or four-year basis in the South African market, from SCT Services.
The addition of a subscription-based hosting option to the SAP Business All-in-One product portfolio provides customers with even more choices to find the right solutions for their individual business needs and preferences.
With nine years of experience and 16 customers in the mid-market, SCT Services knows that one size and one delivery model does not fit all.
SCT Services understands the current economic situation in which many of its midsize customers struggle to get much-needed investment capital to contest in a highly competitive marketplace.
"We are expanding our SAP product range offering in 2010 by adding Subscription Based Hosting of SAP to our portfolio. It gives our prospects and customers another very sound option to consider when deciding on the method of acquiring SAP. Our market is ready for this: already, a number of prospects and customers have approached us for a hosted option. In our view, this hosted SAP model provides a fantastic opportunity for businesses that need to replace their business systems. The key benefit is that cash outflow on this investment is driven from the OPEX line and not the CAPEX line. This is perfect for growing businesses that need proper systems to control growth, stay on top of change and who prefer to rent rather than buy SAP ERP software," says Victor van der Watt, CEO of SCT Services.
"We are excited to be working with such excellent industry veterans as SCT Services," said Luciano Ravenna, South Africa SME Partner and Solutions Head. "They are providing in-depth market knowledge that will help to make this expansion of the Fast-Start Programme a success to the benefit of our joint customers. With the subscription-based hosted delivery model, we further increase the value of our entire solution portfolio for the small and midsize enterprise by not only providing options in functionality, operating system and databases, but also in deployment and licensing."
Due to the success of hosting offerings for SAP Business All-in-One in general (see "Hosted SAP Solutions from Channel Partners Free Midsize Companies from Day-to-Day IT Challenges"), the subscription-based hosting option for the SAP Business All-in-One offered by SAP gives customers the powerful functionality of flagship enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP ERP; industry-specific SAP Best Practices packages; the SAP MaxDB database; standard SAP Enterprise Support services; and application hosting, management and maintenance. In addition, customers can optionally choose customer relationship management (CRM) for SAP Business All-in-One and payroll processing software from SAP. Customers have the complete flexibility to configure their solutions to fit their business needs and have the choice to move in time to a standard on-premise deployment model.
Customers interested in buying perpetual SAP Business All-in-One licences can evaluate the solution and receive cost estimates through the innovative solution configurator for SAP Business All-in-One solutions - an online tool for midsize companies to easily configure SAP Business All-in-One solutions targeted to their particular needs. In addition to evaluating an ERP solution, the solution configurator can configure CRM functionality. In four easy steps, a company can input its industry-specific ERP and CRM needs, resulting in a solution blueprint and cost estimate that includes costs for software licences, implementation services and hardware components optimised to run SAP Business All-in-One. SAP partners that participate in the fast-start programme can take part by offering their own solution configurator to showcase their best practices-based SAP solutions, see "Expansion of Midmarket Program Provides Greater Cost Transparency and Shorter Project Cycles".
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SAP Business All-in-One
SAP Business All-in-One solutions are comprehensive and flexible business management software with built-in support for industry best practices. The solutions best fit the needs of midsize companies looking for a comprehensive, integrated industry solution to power their business end-to-end. In one configurable solution, SAP Business All-in-One helps companies manage everything from financials, human resources, procurement, inventory, manufacturing, logistics, product development and corporate services, to customer service, sales and marketing. SAP Business All-in-One solutions are available from SAP and over 1 100 qualified partners that deliver more than 700 industry-specific solutions in 50 countries. The solutions can be easily configured to meet the business requirements of midsize companies in any industry. SAP provides all the deployment tools and methodologies that partners need to deliver fast, predictable implementation with low risk, low cost and rapid time to value. Additional information is available at http://www.sap.com/businessallinone.
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