“SAP's industry focus, software fit and wide-ranging hosting and implementation services will enable us to integrate and globalize our retail and wholesale business, reduce our IT costs and deployment risk and enhance our ability to compete in the global marketplace,” said Nick Macera, CIO, Samsonite Corporation.
“We look forward to building a strong partnership with Samsonite, to help the company realize its global strategic objectives and execute on its mission of providing innovative solutions for the traveling world,” said Bill McDermott, president and CEO, SAP America, the North American subsidiary of SAP AG. “Companies have a mandate to grow their businesses now. The SAP Safe Passage Program offers companies, such as Samsonite, an affordable way to migrate to a new solution environment to begin the process of innovating their businesses today.”
SAP Safe Passage Program Helps Customers Plan for the Future and Manage for Today Introduced in early 2005, the SAP Safe Passage Program provides companies a flexible and affordable “safe passage” away from the uncertainties arising from Oracle's acquisition of PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Retek solutions to an SAP software platform that will help them adapt, innovate, grow and sustain a competitive advantage in today's fast-changing economy. SAP Safe Passage offers a combination of SAP best-in-class solutions, the SAP NetWeaver platform and a program of tailored incentives that help ensure protection ans solutions, the SAP NetWeaver platform and a program of tailored incentives that help ensure protection and maintenance support of existing software investments. The program also enables companies to plan and migrate their solutions when they are ready, to meet their individual business requirements.