By Anne Widjaja
Accenture and IBM have been named ‘leaders’ in IDC’s most recent MarketScape report, which profiles and ranks the leading vendors in the worldwide SAP implementation ecosystem.
The report, titled MarketScape Worldwide SAP Implementation Ecosystem 2012 Vendor Analysis, evaluated the success of the 12 largest SAP applications systems integrators – Accenture, Capgemini, CSC, Deloitte, Fujitsu, HCL, HP, IBM, Infosys, PWC, TCS and Wipro.
The MarketScape report found that in the long term, it was the consulting firms’ approach to cost-benefit analysis that best facilitated an increased adoption of their SAP implementation services by clients.
Accenture was named a leader in the report for its ability to utilise proven methodologies and tools, as well as their technical insights and competence.
For IBM, it was their ability to integrate their own team with that of the client’s on a project, and their wide spectrum of SAP services that scored high with buyer perceptions.
Gard Little, research director, IT consulting and systems integration business strategies at IDC, said that the report findings show that “traditional lines between software and service providers are blurring,” adding that this has occurred because SAP has allowed larger systems integrators to sell SAP software directly.
Consequently, “SAP services itself is being brought into customer discussions at a more strategic level than just software implementation,” he said.
“The best practice [occurs] when systems integrators and SAP can work together seamlessly to deliver a client solution,” Little said.
