United VARs Alliance - Even International SAP Projects Are Increasingly Being Rolled Out Remotely / SAP Pinnacle Award As »Strongest Performing Global Platinum Reseller«

Crisis but also an opportunity / The highest SAP cloud & licence revenues worldwide provide a robust basis for business / Local presence for global SAP projects meanwhile expanded to roughly 100 countries / Partners and customers are adjusting flexibly en route to becoming smart enterprises

Düsseldorf, 14 May 2020 - Finnish company HMD Global had to forego the planned support from the new James Bond 007 film »No Time To Die« when it recently launched the new Nokia 8.3 smartphone. Because of corona, Universal Pictures postponed the launch of the new film at short notice. In doing so, they also delayed the perfectly staged product placement of the new generation of devices in the hands of agent Nomi. As HMD CEO Florian Seiche assured Germany's business paper Handelsblatt, however: »the market launch of the new 5 G smartphones went well anyway«. A few years previously, the new »home of Nokia phones« had brought punchy implementation expertise for globally harmonised business processes on board - United VARs. Within just 3 months, the world's most powerful SAP reseller alliance made the SAP Business ByDesign cloud ERP solution go live at HMD Global's headquarters in Finland. A mere 6 months later, rollout had been successfully completed in 33 countries.

As Detlef Mehlmann, United VARs Chairman and head of Business Development International at All for One Group, summarises: »Some years ago there were no indications that the economy was going to slump. By contrast, conditions in the markets everywhere are tough at the moment. And yet, even crises like a corona pandemic can also offer opportunities. Once again, the strong sense of community in our global alliance proved to be the driving force behind the ability to rapidly adjust to new conditions«. Indeed, the partners in the United VARs alliance are meanwhile increasingly involved in something that virtually nobody believed would be possible just a few weeks ago. Even global SAP projects are now increasingly being rolled out remotely, i.e. without any consultation actually on site. In doing so, the United VARs partners are protecting their staff and their families, their customers and their business partners, while at the same time helping to interrupt the chains of infection and to contain the spread of the virus. The United VARs alliance responded to the looming changes in a flash. Within just a few weeks, all work streams - for preparing international SAP S/4HANA projects, for example - had been completely switched to »New Work Mode« with online team sessions taking place from home offices. The addition of 5 new members - Dunn Solutions, Chicago/USA, Ageless, Kiev/Ukraine, Cresco e-Solutions, Tokyo/Japan, Netizen, Bangkok/Thailand and SAVIC, Mumbai/India - has, moreover, allowed the alliance to expand its international SAP project expertise and now covers roughly 100 countries.

Following 2017, the United VARs of SAP was again awarded an SAP Pinnacle Award (in the category »Global Platinum Reseller«) in 2020 for its strong new customer business, the successful expansion of its cloud customer base and its strong growth with SAP S/4HANA - totalling the world's highest SAP reseller licence revenues (incl. SAP cloud subscriptions). Pinnacle Awards were also won by Acloudear (China) and Seidor (Spain) as »SAP Cloud Partner of the Year«, and by BSG Partners (Korea) as »Best Packaged Solution Partner«. All 3 companies are partners of the United VARs alliance.

Celebrating such success also requires flexibility at the moment. Because of corona, both project kick offs and SAPPHIRE in Orlando are taking place online, as is the annual United VARs Partner Conference at SAP in Walldorf. Remote rollouts should, at least, become even more commonplace once the situation returns to normal. The United VARs alliance definitely plans to emerge from the corona crisis in an even stronger competitive position.

About United VARs
United VARs is a leading alliance of SAP solution providers for the midmarket. It consists of 50 market-leading VARs (Value Added Resellers) operating in roughly 100 countries, with 10,000 certified SAP consultants serving over 8,000 customers worldwide. To ensure the best possible service for SAP customers, potential member companies of United VARs must research and consult with SAP to ensure that they are among the best in their region.
https://www.united-vars.com/en

About All for One Group AG
All for One Group AG (ISIN DE0005110001) enhances the competitive ability of its customers in a digital world. The Group unites strategic and management consulting, process consulting, industry insight and technology expertise, IT consulting and services under one roof. With market leading business software solutions based on SAP, Microsoft and IBM together with more than 1,850 experts, All for One Group AG orchestrates all aspects of competitive strength: intelligent Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) as the digital core of any future-proof corporate IT, strategy, business model, customer & employee experience, new work, big data & analytics, but also IoT, artificial intelligence or cybersecurity & compliance. All for One Group AG is assisting more than 2,500 clients with their transformation and the expansion of their ability to compete. Market observers rank the leading consulting and IT group as the number 1 in the German-speaking SAP market. As a founding member of United VARs - the most powerful global alliance of SAP Partners - All for One Group AG also provides a comprehensive portfolio of consulting and other services, together with best-in-class local support in roughly 100 countries. All for One Group AG is listed in the Prime Standard on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and achieved sales of approx. EUR 360 million in the financial year 2018/19.
https://www.all-for-one.com/en/

Contact:
United VARs c/o All for One Group AG, Dirk Sonntag, Head of Corporate & Investor Relations, Tel. 0049 (0)711 78807-260, E-Mail [email protected]