By Eleanor Reader
More than 500 partners of SuccessFactors will be transitioned into the SAP PartnerEdge program in 2013 after SAP announced the program is now supporting an expanded portfolio of SAP cloud solutions.
SAP PartnerEdge has been designed for partners that resell, build or provide implementation services for SAP solutions across the SAP portfolio.
The platform allows partners to offer cloud solutions and suites to their installed base customers and prospects and enables them to sell cloud solutions to boost profitability by offering quarterly payments in arrears for cloud solutions from SAP.
The move will also make partnering easier, with one contract enabling partners to sell all the cloud solutions available, rather than one contract per cloud solution.
“Cloud offerings from SAP provide customers the option of moving all or parts of business processes to the cloud and keeping others on premise,” said Mercedes Ellison, vice president, global cloud ecosystem and channels, SuccessFactors.
“All cloud partners will be able to receive the benefits and value from an award-winning program like SAP PartnerEdge. This program will provide SuccessFactors partners with additional tools and resources to support the hyper-growth we’ve been experiencing with cloud as well as give existing SAP PartnerEdge members the ability to easily expand their offerings to cloud.”
Platform, social and the business network are integral parts of SAP’s latest cloud strategy, released in May 2012, with the organisation stating the integration of SuccessFactors partners into the program is another step in strengthening the overall partner ecosystem.
