IBS named Line of Business Partner of the Year, EMEA

February 14, 2012. IBS today announced it has received the Line of Business Partner of the Year EMEA award. Awards were presented by SAP (NYSE: SAP) during the SAP® EMEA & DACH Field Kick-Off Meeting (FKOM) 2012, held Jan. 23-25 in Milan, Italy, to the top-performing SAP channel partners and SAP services partners in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH) regions for outstanding contributions that impact overall SAP sales and pipeline-generation goals.

“This is indeed a very great honor for IBS to receive this award along with Accenture, HP, Capgemini and other major European and worldwide companies and to be recognized as SAP’s best line of business partner in the EMEA region.  Firstly, this is one more indicator that the entire Russian market is indeed one of the most promising and capacious markets in the world: the demand for SAP products and solutions in Russia keeps growing.  Secondly, this award confirms that the level of business, scale and complexity of projects, and, most importantly, experience and quality of services provided by IBS correspond to the best worldwide practices,” says Alexander Saksin, Director of the Department of Corporate Management Systems at IBS.

Selected from SAP’s wide-ranging EMEA and DACH partner base, nominations for the SAP Partner Impact 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. Winning its award in the nomination Line of Business Partner of the Year IBS was recognized for its notable contribution to promoting SAP ERP Human Capital Management solutions and implementing large-scale projects based on this technology.

IBS received the award during the SAP EMEA & DACH FKOM 2012, an annual gathering of SAP executives, SAP field employees and partners to learn about SAP’s strategy, sales methodology, best practices, business growth opportunities and product innovations. The theme of this year’s meeting, “Run Better Win Bigger,” prominently featured SAP’s innovation story focusing on its core pillars – analytics, cloud, mobility and in-memory computing – as well as solutions for industries and lines of business on a consistent core. A focus of the event was on helping SAP’s strong partner ecosystem succeed in 2012 by providing visibility into SAP’s company direction, education on products, networking opportunities, and exposure to SAP leaders. SAP and its partners help customers adopt innovation easily, gain results rapidly, grow sustainably and ultimately run better with SAP solutions. This year’s EMEA & DACH FKOM hosted approximately 4,500 attendees from the region.

“We believe that our partners’ strong investments and commitments are key drivers for our customers’ success and for SAP’s market reach,” said Luis Murguia, senior vice president, Ecosystem & Channels, SAP EMEA. “The winners of the 2012 SAP Partner Impact award have demonstrated expertise and initiatives in the development and partnership with SAP, which has led to game-changing co-innovation and market expansion.”

Cooperation between IBS and SAP began in 1998. Currently, IBS is an SAP services and an SAP channel partner reselling the SAP Business All-in-One and business intelligence solutions from SAP BusinessObjects. In 2000 IBS became one of the first Russian company to be awarded the highest partner status: SAP local alliance partner. After that the company repeatedly received such statuses as SAP service partner, preferred industry partner for oil and gas industry, preferred industry partner for other industries.,. Additionally the company has the status of SAP gold partner and has a validated expertise status from SAP for solutions in manufacturing. IBS has extensive experience in creating corporate management systems based on SAP solutions for largest Russian companies.