NTT DATA Business Solutions Receives SAP® EMEA Partner Excellence Award 2015 in the Category “Analytics”
Award Highlights NTT DATA Business Solutions’ Outstanding Performance and Commitment to Its Partnership With SAP and Customer Success
London — January , 2015 — NTT DATA Business Solutions today announced it is the recipient of an SAP® EMEA Partner Excellence Award 2015 in the category Analytics. Awards were presented by SAP (NYSE: SAP) to the top-performing SAP partners in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Middle and Eastern Europe (MEE) regions for their efforts – in partnership with SAP – in helping customers adopt innovation easily, gain results rapidly, grow sustainably and run more simply with SAP solutions. Recipients of this year’s awards have made outstanding contributions that impact overall SAP sales and pipeline-generation goals.
“We are very pleased with winning this prestigious award from SAP for leadership in the Analytics field. This has been won thanks to the faith new and existing customers have placed in us to provide them forward looking cutting edge Analytics solutions embracing for instance SAP’s new predictive analytics tools as well as the SAP HANA platform,” Justin Brading VP & UK MD NTT DATA Business Solutions.
Selected from SAP’s wide-ranging partner base, nominations for the SAP Regional Partner Excellence Awards were based on internal SAP sales data. A steering committee composed of regional and global SAP representatives determined winning partners in each category according to numerous criteria such as sales achievement and performance. Awards were presented in a variety of categories, including overall sales, innovation, technology, services and solution-specific areas.
“With our outstanding ecosystem of partners, SAP is helping customers run bolder, faster and simpler,” said Luis Murguia, senior vice president, Global Partner Operations, SAP EMEA. “Partners extend our ability to bring SAP innovations to more customers and add their proven solutions to serve our customers. We congratulate NTT DATA Business Solutions as one of our top- performing partners of the year in the EMEA region. Together, we are helping customers transform their business and delivering the innovation that fuels revenue and growth.”
NTT DATA Business Solutions has operated as a solutions reseller for SAP for over 25 years and is one of the few global value-added resellers (gVAR’s) for SAP. The UK is a particularly strong market for our Analytics business with strong customer presence across many sectors with customers such as Collinson Insurance, UBM and Plymouth University are moving ahead in 2014.
NTT DATA Business Solutions received its award during the SAP Field Kick-Off Meeting Barcelona (SAP FKOM Barcelona), an annual gathering of SAP executives, SAP field employees and partners held Jan. 19-23. It is SAP’s largest yearly sales meeting, intended to drive success during the upcoming year. Colleagues across the region gathered in Barcelona to gain and exchange updated information on SAP’s strategy, sales methodology, best practices, business growth opportunities and product innovations. This year’s SAP FKOM Barcelona hosted approximately 6,500 attendees from the region.
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About NTT DATA Business Solutions
NTT DATA Business Solutions is one of the leading international full-service providers of solutions in support of SAP solutions, employing more than 4,000 highly qualified employees in 22 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, SAP-Certified Provider of Hosting Services for SAP HANA® Enterprise Cloud and SAP Gold Partner Business ByDesign, NTT DATA Business Solutions realizes complex projects in the SAP solution-based environment for over 5,000 customers worldwide. In 2006, NTT DATA Business Solutions obtained gold-level status as an SAP channel partner as part of the SAP PartnerEdgeTM 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 application management services and outsourcing & services to proprietary industry-specific SAP. In 2014, NTT DATA Business Solutions generated total sales of EUR 556.8 million. NTT DATA Business Solutions is “Top Consultant” 2014.