SYDNEY – 14 March, 2022 – SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced the winners of the SAP Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) Partner Excellence Awards for 2022, recognising the outstanding achievement of its best-performing partners over the last year across 14 categories.
The annual awards recognise SAP’s top partners for excellence in customer service, innovation, technology and services, as well as in solution-specific areas.
Understanding that customer priorities have changed greatly over the last year, SAP has updated this year’s award categories to better reflect how partners are helping local organisations to move forward through the challenges of the pandemic, to grow, and to adapt in ways that build for a better, more sustainable future. For the first time ever, six of the award categories have been based on partner self-nomination, including: Trail Blazer; Sustainability; Social Impact; Customer Business Transformation; Partner Innovation; and Industry Cloud award categories.
Other categories recognised include: Cloud Sales Excellence; Cloud Customer Engagement; Rising Star; Partner Solution; and Partner Innovation.
The recipients of the SAP ANZ Partner Excellence Awards 2022 are:
| Company | Award Category Winner | Award Overview |
| Accenture | RISE | For being the strongest partner in generating outstanding deals, pipeline growth, project delivery, partner certifications and authorisations. |
| Deloitte | Cloud Sales Excellence | For showcasing strong contribution in cloud across revenue based sales, including partner-influenced revenue via services partners. |
| Discovery Consulting | Cloud Delivery Excellence | For clear adoption of SAP best practices such as PDQF. |
| DXC | Cloud Customer Engagement | For creation of a robust CEE function and methodology, combined with growth in current cloud backlog or renewal percentage rates. |
| DXC | Mid – Market | For outstanding resell revenue and delivery capability. |
| MicroChannel | SME (BYD and B1) | For outstanding resell revenue and delivery capability. |
| Lagom | Rising Star | In recognition of movement towards becoming a significant partner. |
| Deloitte | Partner Solution | For highest impact from a QPPS or other partner packaged solution. |
| Eclips | Trail-Blazer | For creating a New Market or use of SAP technology that becomes a lighthouse for future growth. |
| Accenture | Sustainability | For creating a future that looks greener, cleaner, and more equal than the world we live in today: Zero Emissions, Zero Waste, Zero Inequality. |
| EY | Social Impact | For demonstrable partnering with social enterprises to create a social value with a positive humanitarian and environmental impact. |
| PWC & Wipro – Joint Winners | Customer Business Transformation | For partner-led customer transformation (may be using business-critical applications such as S/4HANA or another SAP LOB solution). |
| PWC | Partner Innovation | For partner innovation related to building on, extending and integrating with SAP solutions using SAP Business Technology Platform. |
| Deloitte | Industry Cloud | For impact in a customer or sector based on a partner industry approach. |
This year, the awards were presented at the end of SAP’s Partner Ecosystem Success Summit, which took place at Sydney’s Zest Waterfront Venues, The Spit, hosted by Damien Bueno, President and Managing Director, SAP Australia and New Zealand and Mark Hettler, Head of Partners and Channels at SAP Australia and New Zealand.
Damien Bueno, President and Managing Director, SAP Australia and New Zealand, said, “I would like to congratulate all the winners of this year’s SAP ANZ Partner Excellence Awards. Our partners play a crucial role in the growth and the success of our customers. This has been especially evident this past year and it has been inspiring to see our ecosystem furthering the growth, success and transformation of Australian and New Zealand organisations during such a period of uncertainty and flux. The submissions received are testament to our partners’ drive, innovation and creativity and to the work they deliver everyday which is helping to impact the economy, transform and future-proof industries, lift up societies and sustain our environment”.
