Oxygen says United VARs newly minted LLP status will enhance organisation’s strength
The alliance of world leading SAP resellers, United VARs, has become a limited liability partnership. Oxygen was appointed as the organisation's Australian and New Zealand partner earlier this year.
Oxygen Business Solutions Chief Executive, Mike T. Smith says the move gives the alliance a powerful marketing, sales and co-ordination platform that will not only enhance the globally co-ordinated service and support provided to established clients, but also promote the acquisition of new international client projects.
Announced to coincide with the start of SAPPHIRE NOW, SAP’s global user conference held in Madrid on 8 November 2011, it will bring United VARs and SAP AG closer together now that the alliance has assumed an important ‘sounding board’ function for SAP when it comes to partner issues and concerns.
United VARs is one of the world’s largest alliances of SAP consultants with its 22 partner members, which share in the funding of the newly established United VARs LLP and employ more than 4,000 SAP consultants in 57 countries, including all of the world’s major commercial centres of the manufacturing industry, and which together represent an SAP-related sales volume of over $1.5 billion.
The members of this alliance are all leading SAP software resellers within the small to mid-size enterprise (SME) segments in their respective countries. They differ markedly from other SAP partners in the amount of regularly generated software licensing revenues, and the number and scope of newly acquired SAP implementation projects. As a result, most have earned Gold Partner status as part of the SAP PartnerEdge programme.
The management structure of this newly formed United VARs LLP consists of a 3-member board of directors comprising Detlef Mehlmann (All for One Midmarket AG, Filderstadt/Germany), Alejandro Daniel O'Davoren (Seidor S.A., Barcelona/Spain) and John McGrath (Answerthink Inc., Florida/USA), along with a steering committee for the five regions of North & South America, DACH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland), Central Europe, EMEA (Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa) and Asia Pacific, as well as one representative from the global SAP organisation.
“The guiding principle of United VARs LLP is to serve and support small to mid-size SAP users on site and across the globe through strong local consulting firms using uniform operating and quality standards, and to do this in their local language and in accordance with local legal requirements,” says Smith
In most cases clients will continue to contract directly with the respective United VARs partners. In addition to United VARs SAP Business All-in-One Partners the alliance is having to become open for SAP Business One channel partners and SAP Business ByDesign solution resellers and is also seeking SAP Global Partner status.
Eric Duffaut, SAP Executive Vice President and General Manager Global Ecosystem & Channels says: “Today’s successful SMEs are innovative, entrepreneurial and flexible. They are sometimes cross industries, and often have expansion and growth plans beyond their local market. They require a multi-industry and/or multi-country end-to-end support infrastructure, which United VARs is able to provide.
“United VARs promotes a full SME portfolio approach to cater to customers’ heterogeneous expectations regarding different deployment options, deep vertical depth, and the implementation expertise to provide customers with a ‘best fit’ solution. Further, as one of the largest alliance of SAP consultants for the midmarket, United VARs continues to be a leading voice in the SAP Ecosystem bringing innovation of our entire SME portfolio – SAP Business One, SAP Business All-in-One and SAP Business ByDesign – as well as our analytics solutions and mobility platform to customers.“
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