MSG Treorbis - Offer for SAP customers in medium-sized businesses

What does the acquisition of Treorbis mean for MSG?

Michael Neuhaus: The addition of Treorbis has enabled further SAP expertise to be incorporated into the MSG Group.

Treorbis offers SAP consulting for medium-sized companies worldwide as well as services in the HCM environment. In addition, our SAP HCM and SAP Variant solutions enhance the Group's overall portfolio across all industries.

Overall, we want to expand and strengthen MSG's market position for SAP customers in the SME sector.

MSG has already taken over an SAP partner, Plaut. Will there now be more redundancy and competition in the group or more synergy and complementarity?

Neuhaus: The Treorbis business is the right addition to the Plaut portfolio. By working closely with Treorbis, we will be able to provide SMEs with an even broader SAP offering.

In particular, the Treorbis solutions with the Variant add-ons, the Location Suite for optimizing decentralized HR processes and the business analytics solutions for HCM and VC offer customers added value.

In addition, the oneHCM offering is a service that only Treorbis offers in this form.

oneHCM provides companies with employees in multiple countries with a complete, integrated suite of outsourcing services for human capital management, offered from a single source by a single service provider.

Will the Treorbis HCM and variant configuration business areas be continued, expanded and supplemented under MSG?

Neuhaus: Naturally, we want to continue and expand the key business areas under the new company name.

In addition to our consulting services in the SAP environment, our solutions and services offer added value for our customers.

To name just one example of our latest developments in the area of variant configuration, we have developed the UI5 offer configurator in close customer contact, which enables a guided editing process for the configuration and thus makes a quick and easy purchase decision possible for the end customer.

We will also continue to develop our other solutions step by step in the future.

Is there any added value for existing Treorbis/SAP customers as a result of the takeover?

Neuhaus: As an international group of companies, the MSG Group supports its customers with intelligent IT and industry solutions as well as expert strategic advice.

Thanks to the increase in expertise from Treorbis, we have now been able to position ourselves even more broadly within the Group. Conversely, for Treorbis customers this naturally means that they can draw on the strengths of the other MSG Group companies in addition to the SAP offerings of MSG Treorbis and thus have a reliable and strong partner for their entire IT landscape at their side in MSG.

However, the aim of MSG and therefore also of MSG Treorbis will always be to provide our customers with the best possible advice and support according to their wishes and ideas - whether holistically or in just one area.

Will the Treorbis name disappear from the SAP community?

Neuhaus: No, the name will not disappear completely from the SAP community. Now that we have established Treorbis as a strong SAP consulting and solution partner on the market in recent years, it would be confusing for our existing customers and certainly for the entire SAP community if the name were to disappear completely from the scene overnight.

Nonetheless, we naturally not only want to live out our membership of the MSG Group internally, but also present ourselves accordingly on the market. We therefore renamed Treorbis to MSG Treorbis GmbH on September 1, 2016.

For our customers and the SAP community, this means at first glance a new company logo and an adaptation of the corporate CI to the MSG Group.

As already mentioned, we would like to show our customers possible synergy effects without giving up our own identity and philosophy in dealing with our customers.

What goals has the Treorbis management set itself for 2017 in consultation with MSG?

Neuhaus: The world is currently experiencing an unprecedented transformation that is changing both the use of technology and society as a whole.

In order to remain competitive and gain a long-term edge over the competition, companies must develop into sustainable digital enterprises.

We support our customers in mastering this complexity and will increasingly focus our strategy and solutions on the SAP cloud portfolio and the Hana platform.