100 Most Promising SAP Solution Providers - 2015

The enormous inflow and outflow of data is a quotidian trend for companies, regardless of their size and industrial operation. Data is paramount in decision-making and deriving desired business outcomes. In the realm of highly competitive business arena, there is a huge demand for tools that can effortlessly simplify the herculean task of managing, predicting, integrating, and analyzing data—both financial and enterprise—across various levels in an organization setting. SAP stands in this ecosystem as a leader in offering effective and the most befitting solutions that guarantee consistency of data, empowering enterprises to perform and deliver better results. SAP’s offerings are being adopted not only by leading large enterprises, but also by small and mid-size companies to optimize their resources.

With its vast suite of solutions that span Business All-in-One, Business ByDesign, Business One, Business Suite, and mySAP, SAP allows companies to step forward and build tools to integrate SAP ideas into different business verticals. The enterprise software giant’s applications are now helping organizations to achieve greater productivity and faster time to market, while decreasing operational cost and expanding the customer base. Further, developments in mobility, cloud and analytics are enabling new business scenarios and extending the reach of SAP applications to business users. SAP is now offering updated capabilities for enterprises seeking insight into large volumes of data—such as from the Internet of Things—while a new Edge edition of SAP's Lumira tool targets businesses with data-discovery features.

With the market embracing different modules of the software, the demand for interaction and collaboration between application suites to streamline business is rising. Most SAP providers are therefore offering integrated solutions that could be deployed on-premise as well as through private cloud placement, sensing the need of enterprises.

These myriad innovation calls for experts to transform SAP software and technologies into solutions that addresses strategic business needs. This is where SAP solution and consulting companies play the role of a propeller to drive enterprises to achieve excellence. The expertise of the companies to provide right data at the right time enables the marketplace to acquire sustainability, flexibility and succeed through innovation.

Amidst these developments, to help CIOs find the right SAP Solution Provider for their enterprises, a distinguished panel comprising of CEOs, CIOs, CMOs, VCs, analysts and the CIO Review editorial board has selected top players from over thousand SAP solution providers. The companies listed here demonstrate an ability to develop innovative technologies, methodologies, and outstanding customer service, while helping CIOs realign their IT strategy directly with that of the business.

In our selection, we looked at the vendor’s capability to fulfill the burning need for cost-effective and flexible solutions that add value to the complex SAP landscape. We present to you CIO Review’s 100 Most Promising SAP Solution Providers 2015.