For the seventh consecutive year, SAP is pleased to announce the winners of the SAP Customer Awards of Excellence for the following Awards Categories:

• Best All in One
• Best Business Intelligence
• Best SOA using NetWeaver Technology
• Best ERP
• Best Upgrade
• Best Innovation
• Best Value Realisation
• Best CRM
• Best Project Team
• Best Project Manager
• Best Solution Architect

Winners

Best SAP Business All-in-One
Customer:	GSM Retail
Partner:	Fujitsu Australia
	"SAP Business All in One rolled out to 20 retail sites in just 9 weeks providing a platform to double revenue within 12 months"
Best Business Intelligence
Customer:	Rio Tinto
	"Greater than $10m return over 5 years for just one of the 9 BI initiatives."
Best SOA using SAP NetWeaver Technology
Customer:	Veolia Environmental Services
Partner:	HCL Technologies Ltd
	"Solution provided real-time integration of processes and data delivery between enterprise systems running on both SAP and non-SAP platforms."
Best SAP ERP
Customer:	National Foods
	"Business case of $20m per annum savings."
Best SAP Upgrade (Joint Winners)
Customer:	Australian Government: Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
Partner:	Oxygen Business Solutions
	"Upgrade of SAP R/3 4.6C to ERP 6, BW 3.1 - BI 7.0, within time, within budget with no impact on business"
Customer:	Australian Government: Department of Defence
Partner:	CSC Australia
	"Australia's largest SAP upgrade completed on-time and on-budget."
Best Innovation
Customer:	SCA Hygiene
Partner:	Oxygen Business Solutions
	"Significant reduction in working capital and Weighted Average Cost of Capital. Annual return to business almost equivalent to one time project cost. "
Best Value Realisation (Joint Winners)
Customer:	BHP Billiton
Partner:	Internal Implementation
	"75% increase in HR efficiency in first 6 months since go-live"
Customer:	Techtronic
Partner:	Lodestone Management Consultants Pty Ltd
	"Annual return to business approximately 156% of project cost. 56% decrease in cost per pallet."
Best CRM
Customer:	AGL
Partner:	Accenture Australia
	"A combination of operational improvements and site consolidation will achieve more than $22m of cumulative, net cost benefit by end FY08."
Best Project Team
Customer:	AGL
Project:	Project Phoenix
Best Project Manager
Winner:	Julian Belotti, Clarity Consulting
Best Solution Architect
Winner:	Jason Currey, Supply-Chain Consulting