Local SAP Business All-in-One partner, SCT Services, has announced a new licensing and delivery option for SAP Business All-in-One (SAP BAiO) solutions.
The new hosted and subscription-based delivery model is designed to help midsize companies obtain a world-class business application with a lower up-front cost, by eliminating the capital outlay traditionally required for acquiring software licences or IT hardware.
SCT Services CEO Victor van der Watt says this model means customers will avoid up-front 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. “It enables customers to obtain a business application with rich, easily customisable industry specific business processes and best practices.”
The hosted delivery model is available from SAP partners like SCT Services that participate in the SAP BAiO fast-start programme, and who are certified by SAP to provide application management and hosting services for SAP BAiO solutions. The subscription-based hosted delivery model for SAP BAiO solutions is available immediately on a two, three or four-year basis.
The addition of a subscription-based hosting option to the SAP BAiO product portfolio provides customers with even more choices to find the right solutions for their individual business needs and preferences.
Van der Watt recognises that one size and one delivery model does not fit all. “We understand 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. To this end, we have expanded our SAP product range offering 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.”
He says the market is ready for subscription-based hosting. “A growing number of prospects and customers have already 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.”
SAP South Africa SME partner and solutions head Luciano Ravenna says SAP is excited to be working with SCT Services. “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 BAiO in general, the subscription-based hosting option for the SAP BAiO 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 BAiO 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 who want to empower users to make effective, informed decisions based on solid data and analysis can choose SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence (BI) solutions as well. With BI, all users, from the high-end analyst to the casual business user, have access to the information they need - with minimal dependence on IT resources and developers.
Customers interested in buying SAP BAiO licences can evaluate the solution and receive cost estimates through the innovative solution configurator for SAP BAiO solutions - an online tool for midsize companies to easily configure SAP BAiO 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 BAiO. 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.
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SCT is an accredited SAP BAiO Partner and consequently, in 2004, also the first SAP BAiO partner in Africa. The company is widely recognised as offering rapid SAP BAiO implementations in the market. In 2008, SCT was accredited with the SAP BAiO Gold partnership. SCT's mission is to make businesses run best by running SAP, and as such, the company's consequential vision is to do it quicker and better than anybody else in the SME market.
Its resolute focus is the result of its persuasion that the definitive business technology - current and future - lies with the SAP solution. SCT's people are driven by a company culture that encourages and rewards excellence in all aspects of SAP. The company takes great pride in its reputation for being one of the best at implementing the SAP software.
With its customer-centric approach and technical expertise, the SCT team will work closely with organisations to understand their unique business needs and ensure they are gaining maximum value from their SAP platform.
SCT's primary motivation is to help maximise the business value from its SAP BAiO solution and with the implementation of its solution and associated business services, it will provide one with a sound application infrastructure that will realise the fundamental objective of achieving a stable business and operational environment.
SCT understands that each SAP BAiO project is as unique as the company in which it is being implemented. With SCT as an implementation partner, one does not only get SAP BAiO's proven business solution containing the industry best practices from thousands of implementations worldwide, you will be working with a successful team that has experienced the full selection of challenges any implementation project can raise.
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