SAP Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) has appointed Nicole O’Connor to the newly created role of general manager of SAP Western Australia.
O’Connor will be responsible for overseeing the company’s growth in the region and introducing WA customers to the new SAP solutions in cloud, mobile and database.
Prior to joining SAP, O’Connor worked in a transformational role at the state’s electricity network provider, Western Power, and spent nine years at IBM, latterly in a regional sales manager role, where she saw the WA branch change in a matter of years from a small local sales team to a mature services player with over 600 employees.
“The WA marketplace represents a significant opportunity for SAP and I am very excited to be leading SAP through a growth journey in the state that I love,” she said.
“We have just come through a period of frenetic growth on the back of high commodity prices, and I believe that we are now entering into a period of consolidation and maturation. Customers are looking to slow down and start being more strategic about their investments.”
O’Connor is looking to leverage account planning and design thinking to assist WA customers through this new cycle of consolidation and strategic, forward thinking.
Although the mining industry dominates the region, she feels that two industry segments gaining greater momentum and becoming significant players in the region are oil & gas and public sector.
“I believe that the breadth of our offerings in areas as diverse as mobility, cloud and our SAP HANA platform will allow customers to see us in a different light and will lead to fresh new dialogue on how SAP can help them,” O’Connor said.
A newly formed team of specialists will join O’Connor in offering SAP’s entire range of innovations to WA companies.
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