itelligence Receives Two 2016 SAP® Pinnacle Awards: SAP S/4HANA Adoption Partner of the Year and Global Value-Added Reseller

CINCINNATI, April 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

itelligence, Inc. today announced that it has received two 2016 SAP® Pinnacle Awards as the SAP S/4HANA Adoption Partner of the Year and the Global Value-Added Reseller, recognizing the company's outstanding contributions as an SAP partner. SAP presents these awards annually to the top partners that have excelled in developing and growing their partnership with SAP and helping customers run better. Winners and finalists in 19 categories were chosen based on recommendations from the SAP field, customer feedback and performance indicators in the following umbrella categories: Build, Service, and Sell with each category including a Customers' Choice award, which recognizes a customer-nominated SAP partner.

"We are honored to receive this recognition from our longtime partner," said Herbert Vogel, chief executive officer and founder, itelligence AG. "After working together for more than twenty five years, we are proud to continue to partner with SAP as we help customers take on business challenges."

"In today's changing business environment, our customers need next-generation business tools like SAP S/4HANA to stay competitive," said Steve Niesman, president and chief executive officer, itelligence, Inc. "We're proud to work in tandem with SAP to help customers streamline business processes and run simple."

"Winning the SAP Pinnacle Award is a tremendous accomplishment," said Rodolpho Cardenuto, president of SAP Global Channels & General Business. "Only 16 companies in our ecosystem of 13,000 partners received this recognition. itelligence should be very proud of their success."

Kevin Ichhpurani, executive vice president of SAP Strategic Business Development & Global Ecosystem added, "The SAP Pinnacle Award winners represent the very best in our partner community, and we congratulate itelligence for two well-deserved 2016 SAP Pinnacle Awards."

itelligence, Inc. has been an SAP North America partner since 1993 and an SAP Global partner since 1989, and provides expertise on SAP's solutions to help its customers with implementation, application management and hosting through each stage of the process. itelligence is SAP-certified in cloud services, an SAP-certified provider of hosting services for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud and an SAP Platinum Partner among other achievements.

SAP Pinnacle Awards shine a spotlight on SAP's partners' remarkable contributions, acknowledging their dedication to teamwork, innovative approach and capacity to challenge what is possible to help customers achieve their goals. Award winners will be formally recognized at the SAP Global Partner Summit on May 16, in conjunction with SAPPHIRE® NOW, SAP's international customer conference in Orlando, Fla., May 17-19.  For descriptions of the awards, visit: http://www.sap.com/partners/become/partner-program/benefits/pinnacle-awards.html.

About itelligence 

itelligence, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of itelligence AG, an international full-service solution and consulting company with a global presence in 23 countries. itelligence provides a broad range of consulting and customer support services to further maximize SAP solutions, including implementations, application management services and hosting. itelligence also provides support for solutions including the SAP BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence suite, mobile solutions, the SAP HANA platform, SAP Human Capital Management and SAP SuccessFactors® solutions, and office of CFO solutions including SAP Business Planning and Consolidation and SAP solutions for governance, risk and compliance (GRC). itelligence is an SAP gold partner authorized to resell SAP Business All-in-One and SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence solutions, an SAP global services and SAP global hosting partner, and an SAP-certified global provider of application management services. itelligence also holds global quality accreditation by the SAP Active Quality Management organization for demonstrating clear quality standards and processes.

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For media inquiries, contact: 

Laure Poquette
itelligence, Inc.
+1-630-725-3346
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Brent Curry
Hill+Knowlton Strategies
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For international media inquiries, contact 

Head of Corporate Public Relations itelligence AG
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