Hanover/Bielefeld, March 7, 2013 – itelligence announced today to run their worldwide ITlandscape on SAP® Business Suite powered by SAP HANA®. The SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA is an integrated suite of business applications that captures and analyzes transactional data in real time on a single in-memory platform. itelligence AG, one of the most successful SAP consultancy firms for small and midsize companies, will now use this increased speed of IT processes as a building block for its own growth strategy. The contract was signed at CeBIT in Hanover.
„itelligence is an early adopter of new business models, solutions and technologies. They are constantly striving to optimize their own processes to even better enable their customers to drive effective and sustainable growth,” said Hartmut Thomsen, Managing Director SAP Deutschland AG & Co. KG. “The decision to migrate their global IT landscape on SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA is another distinct proof point.” The SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA offers an open environment which enables business management in real-time. Data analyses and predictions based on current transaction data, accelerate business processes and allow for easier collaboration in the business environment. Innovations can be more effectively checked for market maturity and feasibility.
Herbert Vogel, CEO of itelligence AG: “This new technology from SAP is setting the standard and I expect that using SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA will provide new growth opportunities for itelligence. We can interact better and faster with our customers. Thanks to accelerated simulations and the possible integration of intelligent workflows, the requirements of our itelligence customers can be implemented much more effectively. An advancement that will be tangible, comprehensible and measurable in customer projects.”
itelligence, already among the early adopters of new SAP technologies, is following the motto: What we sell we also want to use ourselves. With the start of CeBIT 2013 in Hanover, itelligence AG is now also offering a range of industry-specific SAP Businses All-in-One solutions based on SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA. SAP offers a service pack for customers who want to benefit from the new SAP Business Suite. SAP has developed rapid deployment solutions for existing customers who want to migrate their databases to SAP HANA.
itelligence is one of the leading international full-service providers of solutions in support of SAP solutions, employing more than 2,800 highly qualified employees in 21 countries and in five regions (America, Asia, Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Germany/Austria/Switzerland). As a frequently awarded SAP partner, among others global value-added reseller, SAP Certified in Cloud Services and SAP Gold Partner Business ByDesign, itelligence realizes complex projects in the SAP solution-based environment for over 5,000 customers worldwide. In 2006, itelligence obtained gold-level status as an SAP channel partner as part of the SAP PartnerEdge™ program in Germany, and in the U.S. in 2007. The company’s services in support of SAP solutions range from consulting and licensing to outsourcing and services to proprietary industry-specific SAP. In 2012, itelligence generated total sales of EUR 407.1 million (preliminary figures). itelligence is “Top Consultant” 2012.
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