Under the agreement, Vantis, which provides services primarily in Hong Kong, Macau, China, and Taiwan, will resell NTT Communications’ Global Management One (GMOne) managed services, cloud and hosting solutions.

Mantis’ strong expertise in the SAP arena was a major drawcard in the partnership.

“We are excited to welcome Vantis as our first partner for GMOne in Hong Kong,” said Hirofumi Miyama, senior vice president of managed services, NTT Communications.

“By leveraging their strong implementation track record and local expertise for deploying cloud business applications for enterprises, especially SAP applications, we will be able to expand our footprint in Asia and ensure that our end customers get the right services and support they need in their cloud migration journey.”

The two companies already partner on NTT’s Enterprise Cloud Marketplace, which was launched in 2016.

According to NTT Communications, GMOne managed services are designed to help businesses manage hybrid ICT ecosystems – an area tipped by analyst firm Gartner to grow strongly, with 90 per cent of organisations to adopt hybrid infrastructure management by 2020. With new IT models such as the Internet of Things, blockchain and artificial intelligence making ICT needs more complex, enterprises are increasingly seeking agile, efficient and cost-effective cloud-based and automated managed services.

Dr Rocky Lam, CEO of Vantis, said the company is proud to be furthering its partnership with NTT Communication in Hong Kong.

“The partnership cements our business objectives and helps us to better meet the ICT needs of our expanding pool of customers. It will definitely help us to build deeper relationships with our existing customers as they transform their business to become more digital and embrace new technological advances,” said Dr Rocky Lam, CEO, Vantis.

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The acquisition is the latest step in itelligence India’s plans for growth in India as the move toward digitalisation sweeps across the nation.

“With more than 1300 employees, we are now one of the leading SAP partners in the subcontinent,” said Norbert Rotter, CEO, itelligence.

Hyderabad-based vCentric was named SAP S/4 HANA Partner of the Year in India for the past three years, among many other accolades. The fast-growing company has both demonstrated expertise in India and a broad Indian customer base. Exactly the combination that itelligence was seeking for its expansion plans.

“The acquisition of vCentric allows us to offer services across different geographies in India and different segments. itelligence will continue its industry focus to deliver the quality and best fit solutions to its customers,” said Sanjeev Deshpande, managing director, itelligence India.

Although vCentric was among the worldwide finalists of the Pinnacle Awards in the S/4 HANA Partner of the Year category at the SAPPHIRE NOW event in May, it was itelligence that won the award this year. itelligence India was also recently named a ‘Best Place to Work’ in Hyderabad.

“We are very excited to be part of the itelligence family and together we will grow and serve our customer base in India and the subcontinent with best in class solutions and services offerings,” said Venugopal Uppalapati, past chairman, vCentric. He now becomes a member of the executive management team of itelligence India.

itelligence, an SAP platinum partner, is a leading international SAP solutions provider that employs about 6,600 employees in 24 countries worldwide. Its services range from consulting and licensing to application management and from hosting and reseller services to proprietary industry-specific solutions.

Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.

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The Asian branch is the 11th international office for the company, established in response to the dynamic growth of the SAP and Asian IT markets more generally.

“With local presence, we can better serve customers across the globe,” said Gregor Stoeckler, CEO, Datavard.

The company has appointed Ekrem Namazci as APJ regional managing director, to oversee Datavard’s go-to-market and development of a regional partner and customer network with the local sales and support team.

Namazci most recently held the position of managing director, APAC with Canadian software provider, Longview Solutions. Previously he held sales roles with Arcplan and with SAP Germany, handling mid-sized companies and key accounts.

“Singapore is the next logical step for Datavard as one of Europe’s fastest growing IT companies. This region is leading high-tech advancement with a young community open to innovation. I’m excited about establishing and expanding an exceptionally dynamic company in this remarkably dynamic region,” said Namazci.

Datavard has capabilities in optimising analytics, data management, data offloading, SAP HANA and Hadoop integration, SAP system management and operations, system landscape optimisation and SAP HANA implementation.

The company was recognised by Gartner as the leading niche player in the latest ‘Magic Quadrant for Structured Data Archiving and Application Retirement’.

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In2IT will offer services and solution including SAP Business All-in-One solutions, the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform, SAP Mobile Platform, SAP database technology and SAP SuccessFactors Cloud solutions, as well as SAP Enterprise Support.

K Baskaran, global SAP practice head, In2IT Technologies said, “We feel privileged to achieve another milestone and become SAP Value Added Reseller (VAR) for India. With the support of SAP, In2IT Technologies will be able to bestow our customers best-of-breed certified solutions. We will leverage on cutting edge approaches to lower deployment costs and improve quality, necessary to lead a long-run development for enterprises.”

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