SCT Services, a local SAP Business All-in-One Partner, has signed its first fully hosted and subscription-based SAP Business All-in-One (BAiO) deal in South Africa. ibotix, the security technology franchise, is proud to be first.
ibotix franchisor Bill Sandham says the company is rolling out security technology franchises throughout South Africa and expansion was made possible with this ingenious offering. “Without SCT Services, SAP would have been excluded from the ibotix franchise offering.”
The new hosted and subscription-based delivery model is designed to help midsize companies obtain world-class industry specific business processes with a lower up-front cost, by eliminating the capital expenditure need to buy software licences and IT hardware.
SCT Services CEO Victor van der Watt says the model means ibotix will avoid up-front software licensing fees, hardware purchase charges as well as extra skilled personnel salary costs, freeing them from the need to maintain or support an on-premises solution.
“This solution enables small and medium-sized companies to obtain applications with rich, easily customisable processes, allowing them to focus on their core business, while SCT Services take care of their IT requirements.”
The application gives SMEs the powerful functionality of SAP's flagship ERP solutions along with access to industry-specific best practice packages, support services, application hosting, management and maintenance.
“This software model is perfect for growing businesses that need proper systems to control growth, stay on top of change and for those who prefer to rent rather than buy SAP ERP software. The product is affordable, easy to implement and available immediately on a two, three or four-year basis,” adds SAP's Luciano Ravenna, head of SME partner and solutions group.
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.
“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,” he concludes.
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SCT Services is an accredited SAP Business All-in-One (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 Services 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, better and 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 Services' 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 Services' team will work closely with organisations to understand their unique business needs and ensure they are gaining maximum value from their SAP platform.
SCT Services' 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 Services understands that each SAP BAiO project is as unique as the company in which it is being implemented. With SCT Services 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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