Protera Technologies Now an SAP Hosting Partner and SAP-certified Provider of Hosting Services

June 28, 2010 - PRLog -- Protera Technologies, Inc., a leading services provider in application management, on-demand hosting, cloud computing and ERP consulting, today announced it has become an SAP hosting partner, through which it will provide hosting services in support of SAP® solutions, including SAP Business All-in-One solutions, in the United States. Protera earned this certification after meeting rigorous requirements of its ability to deliver on-demand hosting services utilizing virtualization and cloud technologies.

"As a services delivery organization providing support for SAP solutions for 12 years, we are proud to have become an SAP hosting partner and SAP-certified provider of hosting services," said Dean Adamopoulos, CEO of Protera Technologies, Inc. "Each year, we have built upon our high standards for the management and hosting of SAP solutions and have constantly improved our AppCare™ on-demand platform that is the critical enabler of our services delivery."

Protera has been a leading application management, hosting provider and technology consulting organization offering support for SAP solutions since it was founded in 1998. It is also an SAP-certified provider of application management services. Protera's AppCare on-demand platform enables efficient and cost-effective delivery of hosting solutions and can be leveraged by other service providers such as SAP resellers, integrators and data center providers for complementing and enabling delivery of their services. Protera services and technologies enable flexible pay-as-you-go pricing, helping to minimize upfront costs and total cost of ownership.

The list of satisfied Protera customers is lengthy and includes medium to large enterprises across multiple industries and divisions of the Fortune 100. Plenia Locatel Group, a leading, global retailer of distinctive health stores, has tapped Protera services.

“Protera’s AppCare hosting on-demand delivery platform and it's USA-based personalized service enabled Locatel to move beyond day-to-day operations management and into a more strategic direction, enabling the business with the new functionality we need to stay ahead of the competition,” said Alejandro  Planas, CIO of Plenia Locatel Group.

"Protera's status as an SAP-certified provider of hosting services in the U.S. is an important extension of our successful relationship," said Michael Ressemann, global head of Outsourcing Services and Solution Delivery, SAP. "SAP customers will benefit from comprehensive, on-demand hosting services offerings from Protera, allowing them to reduce cost, improve quality of service and focus their resources on meeting core business challenges."

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About Protera Technologies, Inc.
Founded over 12 years ago by President Patrick Osterhaus, Protera Technologies is positioned to take a comprehensive view of bringing value to users of SAP solutions. The company's mission is to maximize the clients' return on their investments. Protera does so by delivering the highest quality and most cost-effective utility hosting (true on-demand hosting), applications management and consulting services including rapid implementations, upgrades, migrations, archiving, capacity planning and disaster recovery. Protera, via its AppCare on-demand platform, delivers end-to-end application management services including: online personalized information dashboard, help desk, integrated real time 7x24x365 monitoring, change management, workflow automations, SLA reporting, service metering and knowledge management.
More information about Protera Technologies can be found at http://www.protera.biz.