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United VARs Alliance – Even International SAP Projects Are Increasingly Being Rolled Out Remotely / SAP Pinnacle Award As »Strongest Performing Global Platinum Reseller«
United VARs Alliance – Even International SAP Projects Are Increasingly Being Rolled Out Remotely / SAP Pinnacle Award As »Strongest Performing Global Platinum Reseller« Crisis but also an opportunity / The highest SAP cloud & licence revenues worldwide provide a robust basis for business / Local presence for global SAP projects meanwhile expanded to roughly 100 countries / Partners and customers are adjusting flexibly en route to becoming smart enterprises Düsseldorf, 14 May 2020 – Finnish company HMD Global had to forego the planned support from the new James Bond 007 film »No Time To Die« when it recently launched the new Nokia 8.3 smartphone. Because of corona, Universal Pictures postponed the launch of the new film at short notice. In doing so, they also delayed the perfectly staged product placement of the new generation of devices in the hands of agent Nomi. As HMD CEO Florian Seiche assured Germany’s business paper Handelsblatt, however: »the market launch of the new 5 G smartphones went well anyway«. A few years previously, the new »home of Nokia phones« had brought punchy implementation expertise for globally harmonised business processes on board – United VARs. Within just 3 months, the world’s most powerful SAP reseller alliance made the SAP Business ByDesign cloud ERP solution go live at HMD Global’s headquarters in Finland. A mere 6 months later, rollout had been successfully completed in 33 countries. As Detlef Mehlmann, United VARs Chairman and head of Business Development International at All for One Group, summarises: »Some years ago there were no indications that the economy was going to slump. By contrast, conditions in the markets everywhere are tough at the moment. And yet, even crises like a corona pandemic can also offer opportunities. Once again, the strong sense of community in our global alliance proved to be the driving force behind the ability to rapidly adjust to new conditions«. Indeed, the partners in the United VARs alliance are meanwhile increasingly involved in something that virtually nobody believed would be possible just a few weeks ago. Even global SAP projects are now increasingly being rolled out remotely, i.e. without any consultation actually on site. In doing so, the United VARs partners are protecting their staff and their families, their customers and their business partners, while at the same time helping to interrupt the chains of infection and to contain the spread of the virus. The United VARs alliance responded to the looming changes in a flash. Within just a few weeks, all work streams – for preparing international SAP S/4HANA projects, for example – had been completely switched to »New Work Mode« with online team sessions taking place from home offices. The addition of 5 new members – Dunn Solutions, Chicago/USA, Ageless, Kiev/Ukraine, Cresco e-Solutions, Tokyo/Japan, Netizen, Bangkok/Thailand and SAVIC, Mumbai/India – has, moreover, allowed the alliance to expand its international SAP project expertise and now covers roughly 100 countries. Following 2017, the United VARs of SAP was again awarded an SAP Pinnacle Award (in the category »Global Platinum Reseller«) in 2020 for its strong new customer business, the successful expansion of its cloud customer base and its strong growth with SAP S/4HANA – totalling the world’s highest SAP reseller licence revenues (incl. SAP cloud subscriptions). Pinnacle Awards were also won by Acloudear (China) and Seidor (Spain) as »SAP Cloud Partner of the Year«, and by BSG Partners (Korea) as »Best Packaged Solution Partner«. All 3 companies are partners of the United VARs alliance. Celebrating such success also requires flexibility at the moment. Because of corona, both project kick offs and SAPPHIRE in Orlando are taking place online, as is the annual United VARs Partner Conference at SAP in Walldorf. Remote rollouts should, at least, become even more commonplace once the situation returns to normal. The United VARs alliance definitely plans to emerge from the corona crisis in an even stronger competitive position. About United VARs About All for One Group AG Contact: United VARs c/o All for One Group AG, Dirk Sonntag, Head of Corporate & Investor Relations, Tel. 0049 (0)711 78807-260, E-Mail dirk.sonntag@all-for-one.com End of Media Release Issuer: All for One Group AG Key word(s): Information technology
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