Persol partners SAP

SAP AG, the world's leading Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution developer has through its regional operation SAP Africa and their Ghanaian Channel Partner, Persol Systems Limited launched the SAP Business One software solutions in the country.
A statement isssued by the company said the new product was targed at Small and Medium Businesses (SME) in the country and offers greater potential for that sector.
It said “SAP is the natural choice for business applications software just about anywhere in the world.”
The statement added that customers use SAP applications to connect their businesses across function, country and culture, allowing decision-makers to get a single view of their data.
In addition, SAP operates in an eco-system containing over 1,500 partner organisations, which means that customers have a choice as to how they wish to have their software delivered and deployed.
It siad SAP is the world's largest business application vendor, with more than 91,500 installations and annual revenue in excess of €10 billion.
The company has customers of many different sizes, in different locations around the world, with many different business issues.
The Channel Manager for SAP Africa, Mr Nazir Jadavji, said “because of its size, SAP has in-depth knowledge in many industries, and experience working with customers of all sizes.”
He added that SAP's global revenue supports extensive research and development, a strong collaborative user community, proven best practices, and a high level of scrutiny around partner recruitment.
SAP controls a major share of the ERP market in large enterprises and is gaining ground rapidly in the SME segment, the statement said.
The Solutions Manager for SAP Africa, Mr Patrick Kisanya, said “SAP intends to push SAP BusinessOne in Africa by providing tools to local SMEs that enables them to compete with larger companies on a level playing field thereby stimulating increased growth”.
Since its introduction in 2002, SAP BusinessOne product has grown from a customer base of 900 to 20,000 as at the end of the last quarter.
The Managing Director of Persol Systems Mr Michael Quarshie, said “SAP BusinessOne is designed for advanced SMEs, is competitively priced, flexible yet full-featured and can be implemented in record time because of available rapid implementation tools”.
Persol was selected by SAP because of Persol's strong presence, wide coverage and impressive client base in the Ghanaian marketplace thus enabling SAP to immediately access a large group of SMEs that are currently underserved in the ERP marketplace.
The statement said Persol was one of the leading software developer in the country and through this relationship with SAP could now utilise SAP SDK (Software Developer Kits) that would enable Persol to develop interfaces of its products such as Persol Human Capital Management (HCM) and Mobile Hand held software to SAP BusinessOne.
Once certified, these add-on products from Persol would be made available to the 20,000 SAP BusinessOne customers to acquire if desired, the statement concluded.