Persol Systems Limited And SAP Africa Launch SAP Business One® In Ghana

On Tuesday 22 July, 2008, SAP AG the world’s leading Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution developer through its regional operation SAP Africa and their Ghanaian Channel Partner, Persol Systems Limited launched SAP Business One® at the Fiesta Royale Hotel in Accra.

In a well attended meeting of leading industry business and IT executives, SAP Africa and Persol introduced businesses to the growth opportunities and potential at their disposal through the use of SAP Business One® which is SAP’s ERP product targeted at Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs).

SAP is the world’s largest business application vendor, with more than 91,500 installations and annual revenue in excess of €10 billion. SAP has customers of many different sizes, in different locations around the world, with many different business issues. Quite simply, SAP is the natural choice for business applications software just about anywhere in the world.  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 ecosystem containing over 1,500 partner organizations, which means that customers have a choice as to how they wish to have their software delivered and deployed.  It does not matter which direction a business grows in – they will be able to rely on SAP-based solutions that will meet their ever-changing needs. 

According to Mr Nazir Jadavji, Channel Manager for SAP Africa, “because of its size, SAP has in-depth knowledge in many industries, and experience working with customers of all sizes. 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 SMB segment.”

Patrick Kisanya, Solutions Manager for SAP Africa explained that the SAP Product family comprises mySAP Enteprise Business Suite targeted at large businesses, mySAP All-In-One targeted at sophisticated SMBs and SAP Business One® targeted at advanced SMBs. He said “SAP intends to push SAP Business One® in Africa by providing tools to local SMBs that enable them to compete with larger companies on a level playing field thereby stimulating increased growth”. Since its introduction in 2002, SAP Business One® has grown from a customer base of 900 to 20,000 as at the end of the last quarter.

Michael Quarshie, Managing Director of Persol Systems explains that “with SAP Business One® several myths about SAP are broken. SAP Business One® is designed for advanced SMBs, is competitively priced, flexible yet full-featured and can be implemented in record time because of available rapid implementation tools”.