SAP has just been named the 16th most valuable brand in the BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands ranking. The achievement represents SAP’s highest ranking ever—up one spot from 2018 and five spots from 2017. In addition, SAP is the only B2B brand in the top 20.

The new ranking indicates that SAP is outpacing competition and surpassing well-known brands such as Disney, UPS, and Starbucks, all while delivering a 4% YoY brand value increase, reaching $57.528M. The brand ranking measures both the financial value of SAP and how much brand value alone contributes to corporate value. This is good news not just for SAP—but for SAP partners too.

“The SAP brand is a tremendous asset, not just for us, but for our partners as well,” commented Siddharth Taparia, SVP, Head of Global Ecosystem and SME Marketing for SAP.

Association with SAP conveys a passion for quality, innovation and customer success. It enables our ecosystem to help deliver on our mission to make the world run better and improve people’s lives.” We hope our partners will lean on the SAP brand to help them be successful.”

“This brings us another step closer to reaching our goal of becoming a Top 10 Brand and represents SAP’s highest ranking yet,” said SAP CMO Alicia Tillman.

Tillman and SAP are set on reaching that top 10 goal, focusing on delivering exceptional customer experiences, creating disruptive innovations, and messaging the SAP brand promise consistently across each customer touchpoint.

According to the report, brands that are topping the list in 2019 are distinctively meaningful, which is defined as filling functional, emotional, or social needs in relevant ways.

The three components of brand equity are meaningful, difference, and salience. Not only does SAP excel in all three categories, it is well ahead in leading with experience to enable customers to become Experience Companies.

Beyond this, SAP has three clear Top 10 accolades:

• Ranked #1 in Continental Europe for the third year in a row. We are the only European brand in the Top 20.
• Ranked #7 in the Technology category, ahead of Salesforce (#46) and Oracle (#50), which fell 5 spots.
• Ranked #3 in the B2B category, representing an increase from 2018, with Microsoft at #1 and IBM at #2

26TH February 2019. Moevenpick Hotel Accra Ghana 

Persol and SAP present the SAP Rural Sourcing Management and SAP Commerce Marketplace platform to agricultural supply chain participants and donor agencies. 

 Persol Systems Limited, a leading software developer, systems integrator and IT consulting firm based in Ghana is introducing a new software platform, the SAP Rural Sourcing Management (SAP RSM) and SAP Commerce Marketplace to the agricultural supply and value chain in Ghana. The SAP Rural Sourcing and SAP Commerce Marketplace solution together has the potential of transforming the lives of smallholder farmers across Africa by addressing market inefficiencies and the challenges in policy and business decisions due to poor data. 

At a well-attended event at Moevenpick Hotel, Accra, participants were unanimously in support of the platform solution at the Persol-SAP forum which was to present and discuss their platform solution that comprises farmer sourcing and commercial transactions.  

Through the SAP Rural Sourcing Management and Commerce Marketplace platform, farmers, aggregators, certification companies, buyers(off-takers) and the Ghana Commodity Exchange can have visibility into pricing and sales transactions which together with banks, insurance firms and input providers provides a 360 degree loop of the entire supply chain so banks can lend and recover their loans; insurance companies can confidently assess farmer risks and input providers can advance inputs on credit and know when the farmer is due for payment and possibly have that deducted at source.  

This workshop will showcase the SAP platform solution and allow participants to engage other stakeholders on how interactions can be streamlined for a vibrant, productive and sustainable agricultural supply chain. 

 Persol is a premier partner of SAP in Ghana and is the platform operating partner for the rollout of the SAP agricultural supply chain platform solution in Ghana.  

 Participants included World Bank, FAO, AGRA, GIZ as well as Ghana Commodity Exchange (GCX), Ghana Grains Council and several top Ghanaian banks as well as farmer-based organizations and input providers. In response to concerns about bankers’ aversion for risk and hence their high interests to farmers and oftentimes reluctance to advance credit, participants saw how with better access to farmer data, farm productivity and access to certified warehouse receipts from Ghana Grains Council’s (GGC) Central Depository System (CDS), lending risks are significantly reduced.  

 Participants were pleased to know that the platform was in various phases of implementation and trials in several African countries and that it was not limited to only grains and cotton, and that vegetables and livestock were also being tried in multiple pilot programs across the continent.  

 The Assistant FAO Representative (Programmes) from FAO, Mr. Benjamin Adjei noted that this solution appeared to be the missing link that most field researchers have identified as key to integrating market players and bridging the gap between the farmer and the market.  

“We could have targeted only a few large farmers in the country and save ourselves huge costs, but we will never be content. This platform gives hope to hundreds of thousands of farmers across the country, increasing incomes, quality of life and jobs for the youth of Ghana in a sustainable way. This makes us truly content because we can positively impact many lives at no cost to the farmer” says Michael Quarshie, MD, of Persol Systems Limited. 

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Persol Systems Limited, a leading software developer, systems integrator and IT consulting firm is introducing a new software platform, the SAP Rural Sourcing Management (SAP RSM) and SAP Commerce Marketplace to the agricultural supply and value chain in Ghana.

The SAP Rural Sourcing and SAP Commerce Marketplace solution together, has the potential of transforming the lives of smallholder farmers across Africa by addressing market inefficiencies and the challenges in policy and business decisions due to poor data.

At a well-attended forum in Accra to present and discuss their platform solution that comprises farmer sourcing and commercial transactions participants were unanimously in support of the platform solution.

Through the platform, farmers, aggregators, certification companies, buyers(off takers) and the Ghana Commodity Exchange can have visibility into pricing and sales transactions which together with banks, insurance firms and input providers provide a 360 degree loop of the entire supply chain so banks can lend and recover their loans.

Insurance companies can also confidently assess farmer risks and input providers can advance inputs on credit and know when the farmer is due for payment and possibly have that deducted at source.

This workshop will showcase the SAP platform solution and allow participants to engage other stakeholders on how interactions can be streamlined for a vibrant, productive and sustainable agricultural supply chain.

Persol is a premier partner of SAP in Ghana and is the platform operating partner for the rollout of the SAP agricultural supply chain platform solution in Ghana.

Participants included World Bank, FAO, AGRA, GIZ as well as Ghana Commodity Exchange (GCX), Ghana Grains Council and several top Ghanaian banks as well as farmer based organisations and input providers.

In response to concerns about bankers’ aversion for risk and hence their high interests to farmers and oftentimes reluctance to advance credit, participants saw how with better access to farmer data, farm productivity and access to certified warehouse receipts from Ghana Grains Council’s (GGC) Central Depository System (CDS), lending risks are significantly reduced.

Participants were pleased to know that the platform was in various phases of implementation and in trial in several African countries and that it was not limited to only grains and cotton, but vegetables and livestock were also being tried in multiple pilot programs across the continent.

The Assistant FAO Representative (Programmes) from FAO, Mr Benjamin Adjei, in a statement issued by Persol and SAP noted that the solution appeared to be the missing link that most field researchers have identified as key to integrating market players and bridging the gap between the farmer and the market.

Michael Quarshie, MD, of Persol Systems Limited said “We could have targeted only a few large farmers in the country and save ourselves huge costs, but we will never be content. This platform gives hope to hundreds of thousands of farmers across the country, increasing incomes, quality of life and jobs for the youth of Ghana in a sustainable way. This makes us truly content because we can positively impact many lives at no cost to the farmer.”

Source: Ghanaian Times

The Persol Business Forum was held on the 6th October, 2016 at Movenpick Ambassador Hotel for the financial industry.

With the growing need for improved document management with workflow processes and real time insight into operations for effective decision-making, Persol Systems Limited in partnership with d.velop and SAP Africa organized a business forum for financial institutions to address these challenges.

The forum held at Movenpick Ambassador Hotel in Accra on 12th October, 2016, was attended by participants from local and international banks, insurance companies and a number of regulatory authorities in Ghana. The group engaged in ways to improve their business processes with focus on customer delivery. The Persol and SAP team shared, simplified and advanced technologies in interactive document and workflow management such as escpand, d.3 and foxdox from d.velop AG, and Business Intelligence, Treasury & Risk Management and Business Planning & Consolidation solutions from SAP.

Mr. Michael Quarshie (MD, Persol Systems Limited) in his welcome address noted that although the economy is facing some hardships, businesses could manage their operations more efficiently in order to weather the storm. He reminded participants that as technology and global trade are making the world smaller with increased competition, Ghanaian companies could only survive and thrive within the competitive milieu by adopting the same cutting edge technologies that global companies have always used to produce results that give them an edge. In partnership with SAP Africa, Persol Systems Limited will take the companies through a free digital assessment to identify and suggest road maps for business improvement.

Persol Systems Limited is a Ghanaian owned firm with numerous years of experience in Software Development, System Integration and IT Consulting and with strategic partnerships with d.velop and SAP SE both from Germany reaffirms its commitment through the provision of full-featured software and new technological solutions that help our customers to grow and to improve the quality of life of individual users of our products.

At a dinner ceremony held at the Moevenpick Hotel in Accra, Ghana, Persol Systems Limited, the Ghanaian software company was recognized as the Best Software Company for the Year. The award was given on account of the company’s track record in developing cutting edge software that address real world problems.

A recent addition to Persol’s product portfolio is its Voter Verification and Voting System which delivers a practical solution to voter verification and voting in Africa, especially in countries that have introduced biometric fingerprint voter ID cards and where manual paper ballots are still used. The system enforces the one man-one vote principle and renders ballot-stuffing and over-voting as futile adventures whilst ensuring that ballot accounting and statements of polls are automated with enhanced credibility. The net effect is to enhance the credibility of the balloting process and achieve greater acceptance of the end result.

The General Manager, Software Development, Jerry Okantey remarked in response to winning the award, that the company was grateful to God for the recognition and dedicated the award to our customers, staff and Ghanaians who continue to believe in ourselves and pledged to be back with even more exciting products.

Persol is a 17yr old software developer and IT systems integrator based in Accra with clients across the sub-region.

At a workshop held at Alisa Hotel this morning, Persol showcased their Voter Verification and Voting System to a distinguished group of political party representatives, some civil society groups, interested persons, donor representatives and the media.

Persol’s Voter Verification and Voting System addresses the main deficiencies inherent in the current voter verification kit and current voting process. The solution creates a link between the verification of a voter, the issuance of ballot papers and the final results obtained. The Persol Voter Verification and Voting System answers some of the most poignant questions that emerged from the recent Supreme Court case and the ensuing verdict. For example how to identify “foreign material” ballots, how to prevent transpositional errors and other wrong entries and to ensure secure and accurate collation of polling station results. The Persol Voter Verification and Voting System addresses these and more.

The solution makes redundant the need to understand the meaning of over-voting and ballot-stuffing since neither can occur with the Persol Voter Verification and Voting System. It also minimizes the dependence on presiding officers intelligence, numeracy, ingenuity, creativity or otherwise to prepare accurate statements of polls. Developed almost 2 years ago, Persol were unable to showcase the solution and provide alternatives prior to the 2012 election. The election challenges seen in equipment failure in Ghana and Kenya, and findings during the post-election court challenge in Ghana make this system an imperative for the continent.

Persol is a 17yr old software developer and IT systems integrator with 15 yrs experience in biometric software development. Having deployed biometric systems in the harshest of African terrain and used by people whose working conditions almost completely eliminate fingerprint ridges essential for good quality biometric reading, Persol has seen the good, the bad and the ugly of biometrics. Their deployments have opened them to the opportunities fingerprint biometrics presents and its limitations. Their Voter Verification and Voting System maximizes the potential of fingerprint biometrics and limits the risks. The company also has a fully automated e-voting system but is of the view that Ghana may not be ready for an e-voting system.

The company is making a strong case to the people of this country, voters, public leaders including politicians to show support for a Ghanaian-solution to a continental problem. The company stated that it was willing to perform another trial to a larger group of voters and is hopeful that its solution will be deployed in the upcoming district assembly elections, if even in a pilot scenario. The company is currently pursuing a patent application.