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SAP soln to offer 30% reduction in TCO

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BANGALORE: Enterprise software solutions major, SAP India, announced that it had doubled its customer base in the SMB category having added on 45 new SMB customers so far this year, compared to 30 customers in fiscal 2003.

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Targeting the 20,000 odd Indian SMBs whose revenues fall between Rs 50 crore and Rs 400 crore, the company hopes to become the number one SMB player in the APAC region. Briefing reporters, Srinivas Rao, SAP India's sales director-SMB, said, " We have pre-packaged solutions that are low-cost and also reduce the time to implement the solutions through pre-configuration. We also offer solutions that are industry specific which can also be applicable to micro verticals."

According to him, the industry specific solutions developed on mySAP solutions would result in 30 percent reduction in total cost of ownership and 40 percent reduction in implementation time, compared to traditional solutions.

The company would be focusing on critical verticals like pharmaceuticals, textile manufacturing, auto components and the manufacturing sector.

The midsize market for ERP solutions is expected to grow from the current $9 million to $31 million in 2010. " In 2003, the mid market segment accounted for 41 percent of the total ERP market. This is estimated to grow to 63 percent by 2010 at a CAGR of 19.2 percent," said Alok Shende, director-Technology Practice, Frost &Sullivan.

Rao said that SAP now had tie ups with ten partners for SMB solutions, such as Bristlecone, Siemens Information Systems, OBT Global, Cognizant, Wipro, Tata Steel and Genovate.

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