SAP CIS made the top 3 selling SAP units worldwide

This year SAP CIS made the top 3 selling SAP units worldwide,” - said Jovan Maryanovich, SAP CIS Managing Director, at SAP Effective Enterprise Resource Planning Forum in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Although the US and Germany lead SAP’s sales of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, CIS made the top 3 selling SAP units in 2007 - reported Jovan Maryanovich, SAP CIS Managing Director. As it turned out the SAP’s share of enterprise applications market reached about 45% in the CIS, according to IDC and Gartner.

Jovan Maryanovich says SAP owns over 50% of ERP systems market in Kazakhstan and this achievement is quite remarkable. However KZ has still a long way to go till it catches up with the CIS sales leader Russia. According to IDC Russia analysts the sales of ERP solutions in KZ reached $14 million in 2006 (approximately $1 per head), compared to $30 million in Ukraine (approximately $0.65 per head) and to a colossal sum of $365.12 million in Russia (more than $2 per head) or $1 million per day. Interestingly enough is that the EPR prices in Kazakhstan and Russia are absolutely equal.

The major SAP’s competitor on both the CIS and world market of business applications is the Oracle Corporation. Elena Semenovskaya, Software Research Director at IDC, said in an interview to CNews.KZ that the highest local demand is for ERP Financials and Supply Chain Management applications produced by both competitors.

Source: CNews