SAP accounces recipients of the Pinnacle Awards 2009
Thursday, May 14, 2009
On May 12th, SAP announced the recipients of the Pinnacle Awards 2009 for partner excellence.
I'm proud that the efforts of the Adobe Asia Pacific team in 2008, were recognised in Adobe winning "Regional Software Solutions Partner of the Year - APJ".
Whilst I'm no longer with Adobe, having left on Jan 31st 2009, I had the opportunity to lead the SAP sales business for Adobe in Asia Pacific during that period and I can tell you that the teams at SAP and Adobe in each office locally, regionally and globally pulled together to execute seamlessly.
A few shout-outs I'd like to make for those that deserve thanks for that award:
- Drew Wentzel, my partner, for supporting my workaholism and travel;
- Paul Muller for all my foundation skills in sales;
- Julian Quinn for giving me the opportunity to run that business;
- Nick Hodge and Craig Tegel for having originally bought me into the Adobe-world;
- Todd Rowe and Sue Habernigg for having helped mature my ISV sales experiences;
- Derek Judge, James Ning and Stuart Bell for helping me successfully engage with the SAP-world;
- Sumanth Gopal and Mark Szulc for being technical guru's and keeping me out of trouble with customers;
- Inder Narang, Andre Salazar, Matthias Zeller, Eric Lerner, Tom Person, Matt Rodgers, Robin Hewitt and JT Wheeler for all the support for someone outside their region (the US);
- Mark Phibbs and Mark Cokes for the trust and support in marketing;
- Jon Sheiman, Cameron Sherrard, Matt Norsa and Raymond Ngan for being superstar sales executives; and...
- ... the academy for this award. Just kidding! :-)
Getting two software companies to work together successfully isn't as easy as it would seem on paper. In fact, any alliance will be fraught with challenges from both within and externally. I'll take a crack at the topic of "the pitfalls of alliances" in my next blog.
Having now joined Open Text on May 1 2009, I'm looking forward to the challenge of winning that award again next year. :-)
Labels: Adobe, Open Text, Sales and Marketing, SAP
posted by Lee Gale @ 3:06 AM,
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