Tough Times Continue for SAP: Australia’s Freeworld Chooses Pronto’s SaaS ERP Solution Instead
Australian ERP company Pronto recently bested SAP, winning the business of the Australian branch of Freeworld Coatings, a global specialized coatings company. The Australian arm of the company recently underwent a restructuring phase, and they used Pronto’s PRONTO-Xi to consolidate their IT platform and replace the various legacy systems employed about the Australian operations.
The company’s operations manager, Joseph Eid, noted that after they took over the coatings division of Bristol paint manufacturer Barloworld, they were in need of a “robust ERP solution†that was also flexible and could facilitate the structural overhaul. They vetted several ERP solutions, including SAP—an undisputed ERP heavyweight—but found PRONTO-Xi to be the most flexible and customizable. The PRONTO-Xi deployment supports financial, manufacturing, and CRM data, and the Freeworld is also happy with the platform’s multi-currency capability.
Eid said Freeworld’s Pronto implementation time was also the quickest offered, and operations were streamlined within 3 months—which was a good time period for a rebuilding phase, but also enough time for the end users to become familiar with the product. The speedy deployment is due in part to Pronto Hosted Services (PHS), which is the Pronto SaaS model Freeworld chose to deploy alongside PRONTO-Xi.
This is not the first time SAP’s services have been passed up for a sleeker SaaS model—earlier this month, they lost an actual customer to NetSuite’s OneWorld, which runs on their SuiteCloud. It’s certainly been a rough year for the company, and the release of their Business ByDesign is surely not coming soon enough.
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