Corporate | 14 May 2007 09:26
AC-Service AG / Strategic Company Decision
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AC in Vienna Expands Portfolio as Full-Scale SAP Service Provider and Now
Operates under the »All for One« Name
Reinforcing its position among midmarket companies with new fixed-price
packages for SAP. Well-received portfolio as full-scale SAP service
provider in Austria. Significant new-client accounts. End-to-end approach
and uniform market appearance of Managed IT Services and SAP Solutions
activities under All for One strengthen market position and performance.
Vienna, Stuttgart, 14 May 2007 – The AC-Group continues to expand both its
business operations and related range of products and services as a
full-scale SAP service provider for small to mid-sized businesses under the
»All for One« brand and »Member of AC-Group« endorsement. As a part of this
the Managed IT Services-focused AC-Service GmbH of Vienna was renamed to
All for One Midmarket Solutions & Services. A later step will see AC
Solutions, which operates in the SAP consulting field and is also
headquartered in Vienna, merging with this renamed company. Doing so will
ensure a uniform market presence as a full-scale SAP service provider in
Austria – and in Germany in the future – under the All for One brand name.
There will be no personnel changes as a result of this action. Erich Losert
is the managing director of All for One in Austria, Leo Fuchs is in charge
of consulting and Peter Kaiser is the sales manager. AC-Service AG of
Stuttgart remains the sole shareholder, whose »AC« brand, as the master
brand of the AC-Group, will form the centrepiece of its future
communications with the capital market.
This new launch under the All for One brand in Austria primarily supports
the enhanced transfer of what is in Germany (and increasingly in Austria) a
successfully practiced business model of being a full-scale SAP service
provider for small to mid-sized businesses. All for One in Germany is
already one of the leading SAP midmarket partners and was able to win some
50 new client accounts last year. This further broadening of industry
expertise in Austria under All for One will afford some excellent
opportunities to garner one of the leading market positions there as well.
SAP Austria is supporting this strategic course and has named All for One
an industry partner for the auto-part supplier, machine-making, systems
engineering and service provider segments as part of its new midmarket
support model.
New fixed-price packages to further anchor SAP in the midmarket sector
All for One’s portfolio encompasses the entire IT value chain and extends
from SAP licenses, industry solutions and consulting to the implementation,
optimisation and business intelligence all the way to comprehensive Managed
IT Services in the Outsourcing Service Center. Newly developed fixed-price
packages geared to specific industries have also been designed in order to
more fully anchor SAP among small to mid-sized businesses. These are based
on the SAP industry solutions for machinery and systems engineering (All
for Machine), the auto-part supplier industry (All for Automotive) and for
service providers (All for Service). The additional fixed-price packages
Business Intelligence Logistics Portal, SAP Sales Portal and Engineering
Cockpit have been put together to improve the ability to respond, plan and
manage the business of midmarket companies. Another fixed-price package
includes the industry solution, implementation and operation from within
the Managed IT Service Center and thereby responds to the trend of how
business, IT application and IT operation are converging more and more.
There is already a large customer base in Austria that makes extensive use
of All for One’s enhanced, end-to-end range of SAP services including
auto-part suppliers such as Magna Cosma, Oberwaltersdorf and Boxmark World
Leather, Feldbach; machine-making companies such as Wintersteiger in Ried
am Inn and Reform-Werke, Wels; high-tech businesses like the chip
manufacturer austriamicrosystems in Schloss Premstätten and the PLM, IT and
engineering services company BEKO. What’s more, an agreement on
implementing and operating a comprehensive SAP solution was recently signed
with Battenfeld Kunststoffmaschinen GmbH in Kottingbrunn, which includes
licensing and software maintenance for some 230 users and puts this
injection moulding specialist’s entire IT on a new footing. »Our biggest
strength as a full-scale SAP service provider can be found in our
end-to-end approach. After all, it’s the right interaction of business
processes, IT applications and IT operations that gives companies real
business value. Not to mention that the SAP partner landscape is undergoing
some major changes, which opens up added opportunities for us,« summarised
Erich Losert, the managing director of All for One in Austria. »The
customised industry solutions from our partner All for One let small to
mid-sized businesses remain competitive even amid competition that is
getting tougher and tougher. This is why we still see a lot of potential
for SAP and for our industry partners,« added Dr. Andreas Muther, director
of the midmarket business unit at SAP in Austria. For Lars Landwehrkamp,
the AC-Service AG board member responsible for business operations as a
full-scale SAP service provider, the main thing is »delivering SAP reliably
and systematically to small and mid-sized businesses, and concentrating all
of the available forces within the entire AC-Group to get the job done.«
Landwehrkamp added that, »it doesn’t matter what phase of an SAP product
life cycle the client is in, they can always depend on us to be the one
source they need to deliver the finest range of tailored products and
services.«
You can find additional information on the Internet at www.all-for-one.com
and www.ac-service.com
Contact:
AC-Service AG, Dirk Sonntag, Tel. 0049 (0)711 78807-260, eMail
dirk.sonntag@de.ac-service.com
DGAP 14.05.2007
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Language: English
Issuer: AC-Service AG
Schockenriedstr. 7
70565 Stuttgart Deutschland
Phone: 07 11-7 88 07-260
Fax: 07 11-7 88 07-222
E-mail: info@de.ac-service.com
www: www.ac-service.com
ISIN: DE0005110001
WKN: 511000
Indices:
Listed: Geregelter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr
in Berlin-Bremen, Hannover, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, München,
Stuttgart
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