SAP Services teams up with John Keells

John Keells Holdings PLC (JKH), the largest listed company on the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE: JKH) with a AAA+ (lka) credit rating from Fitch Rating Lanka Ltd., appointed as a SAP Services' Partner in 2011, announced that they had teamed up with SAP Services to broad base its spectrum of SAP centric services' portfolio to meet Sri Lankan market's growing demands.

This has been a significant milestone in the partnership between JKH and SAP, further consolidating this partnership relationship. Having worked together since 2003, enabling John Keells Group to realize enhanced business benefits with investments in SAP solutions and helping them deliver an enhanced value to the market with domain expertise, platform experience and significant local presence.

JKH's IT arm, SGIT, has been implementing and supporting SAP across the industries and companies of the Group since 2004, while offering these services externally to the Group since 2008.

JKH together with SAP, plans to setup a "Centre of Excellence" in Colombo, to showcase and demonstrate value innovation that could be delivered through SAP solutions.

SAP Services, has over 100,000 installations across a broad spectrum of industries over the last 30 years, using an integrated global service delivery model with access to 10,000 highly-trained resources worldwide. SAP Services offers an unrivalled combination of skills, experience and best practices to drive greater value for customers' investments in SAP, whilst delivering real business improvements which could enhance the Return of Investment (RoI), while lowering the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

The partnership between JKH and SAP signifies SAP's commitment to the Sri Lankan market. SAP is poised to increase the breadth and depth of engagement in the Sri Lankan market.

"JKH and its IT arm SGIT, have consistently demonstrated close ties with SAP and the culmination of same is this partnership and marks a significant milestone in our journey. We are delighted to say the least, on partnering with SAP Services in broad basing our services, portfolio in Sri Lanka. This is indeed an acknowledgement of our commitment to the Sri Lankan market and to SAP. We are very confident that we could be of significant value in helping you realize and unleash the full potential of your investments in SAP, as a platform of choice, through Value Innovation and eagerly await an opportunity to partner you in your journey with SAP," said Ramesh Shanmuganathan, Executive Vice President and Group CIO of John Keells Holdings PLC.

Elaborating on this partnership, Sanjay Hiranandani, Head of Services, SAP Indian Subcontinent, stated, "This partnership with JKH reaffirms our commitment to expand SAP Services' ecosystem in Sri Lanka.

As a customer and now a Services Partner, JKH brings SAP expertise to develop next-generation offerings, consulting practices and supporting marketing activities across the region. We will help them deliver next-generation solutions rapidly and help the customer realize value faster."