Pebbletree Consulting today announced the availability of eight new mySAP All-in-One vertical solutions for small and midsize businesses (SMBs). The mySAP All-in-One Pebbletree Professional Services solution suite comprises the following industry-specific solutions:
* Pebbletree Services - Legal Consulting
* Pebbletree Services - Financial and Business Consulting
* Pebbletree Services - IT Consulting
* Pebbletree Services - High Tech Service Providers
* Pebbletree Services - Estate Agents
* Pebbletree Services - Research and Development
* Pebbletree Services - Recruitment and Placement
* Pebbletree Services - Training and Education
mySAP All-in-One vertical solutions are based on industry best practices developed from SAP and its partners` experiences in helping the world`s leading businesses to integrate their operations, solve critical business processes, and manage their enterprises more efficiently. mySAP All-in-One solutions are designed to meet the needs of small and midsize businesses with industry-specific requirements.
Based on mySAP Business Suite, mySAP All-in-One solutions are pre-packaged, affordable and quick to implement, helping companies streamline business processes, increase efficiency and achieve a rapid return on investment. More than 4 600 customers worldwide underline the solution`s solid SMB market presence. By drawing on these best practices, SAP and its partners deliver vertical solutions with industry-specific functionality in an affordable and easy-to-implement package for small and midsize businesses, ensuring rapid return on investment.
"What distinguishes small and midsize companies is not the size of their business but the industry in which they operate," said Gary Fromer, vice-president of small and midsize business and hosting, SAP. "We are leveraging the vertical industry experience of our entire ecosystem-SAP, our customers, and our partners-by working with key partners to develop cost-effective, pre-packaged mySAP All-in-One solutions that help small and midsize businesses operate with the power and sophistication of big business, with limited implementation timeframes and predictable cost and return on investment."
Pebbletree Consulting is the SAP business partner for SME solutions for the professional services industry. Pebbletree Consulting itself is an SME and a professional services organisation.
Heidi Fischer, Pebbletree`s SAP All-In-One Manager, said: "We successfully run our own business on the mySAP All-in-One Pebbletree Product Services solution. Our pre-configured mySAP solution is tailor-made for this industry sector and allows a fast-track implementation of mySAP using a template approach. Our solution is certified by SAP, assuring our customers of consistent and full support in the long-term."
Additional information is available at www.pebbletree.co.za.
Pebbletree Professional Services for mySAP All-in-One is a comprehensive business solution suite that allows companies to manage all the processes that comprise their service value chain. With the Pebbletree Professional Services solution, companies can automate their full service and business lifecycle, including:
* Prospective customer identification and pipeline management to extended customer contract management.
* Service enquiry and service quotation to service and resource-related billing.
* Time and materials management to employee and customer profitability.
The end-to-end solution also provides for the effective management of typical professional services scenarios, such as:
* Fixed-price project management contracts to time and materials-based contracts.
* Service and consulting scenarios to installation and agency service scenarios.
Because the solution is fully integrated, real-time and with only one data input channel, logistics and financial processes are controlled, data integrity is constantly maintained and visibility of business operations is available at all levels of operations and management. This enhances transparency of business information, while maintaining effective business governance.
"The small and midsize business software and solutions marketplace is growing increasingly competitive today," says Paolo Masselli, CEO of Pebbletree Consulting. "Working in partnership with SAP to create pre-packaged solutions - such as our Pebbletree Professional Services suite - enables us to meet the unique needs of this market segment by providing richness of functionality and accurate business intelligence. The fantastic benefit that SAP All-In-One provides small to medium customers is a solution that is hugely scalable in terms of functional richness and user community allowing unimpeded business growth."
Speaking about the installation of SAP All-In-One for Pebbletree`s own operations, Financial Manager Yvette Smit says: "With our own implementation of Pebbletree Services for IT Consulting, we have moved from extensive manual processing of data and transactions to a high degree of automation and exception management. Our consultants are able to complete timesheets online and customer invoices are generated automatically and correctly first-time, having a direct impact on cash flow management. We also have full visibility of our financial value chain, providing a sound base for informed and accurate management decisions."
Says Masselli: "Our mySAP All-in-One solution is helping us to automate and streamline the more repetitive tasks and to focus on the activities that add greater value to our organisation."
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