Sistem has transferred its national successes abroad. Founded at the beginning of the 1970s in Turkey, Sistem Reklam has meanwhile established customers from England to Pakistan and from Egypt to Siberia. The company intends to increase exports in the future. For 35 years, Sistem Reklam has not been satisfied with only being a leading company in its sector in Turkey and has taken important steps to become an international company. The first step is to optimize the company's structure with the aid of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution. The ERP solution should help Sistem Reklam to work with improved coordination, to optimize processes, and to minimize documentation and bureaucracy in the company.

After Sistem Reclam had seen all of the demos from the various selected ERP providers they began to request quotations. The criteria which were important to them were method of payment, company infrastructure and type of hardware system the software would require. Öner says, “We obtained offers from the last three firms and tried to evaluate these analytically because the offers changed depending on provider. Some companies were offering a complete ERP software similar to ABAS and others were offering prices on a module basis. We tried to compare the offers for the same modules. Additionally, we compared maintenance and support services, and application and adaptation of the program. We included total costs and wanted to calculate the time period of this project including all of the processes. A report was presented to the senior management when this process was complete.”

Finally, an evaluation was carried out on all of the information gathered on databases, support, methods of payment and other criteria. After this analysis, ABAS was ahead of its competitors. Öner states that, “We also carried out an analysis in our company and the results made our choice clear. We decided to sign the contract with ABAS and to continue our future projects with ABAS.”

Founded in 1980, ABAS provides cost-effective ERP and eBusiness solutions to over 2,000 customers and more than 45,000 users worldwide, with solutions offered in 28 languages. ABAS was named number one in customer satisfaction in the 2007, 2005, 2003, and 2002 ERP studies published by the Konradin Group. ABAS ranked first in price/performance ratio, functional fit, stability, ease of use and upgrades. The study shows that the package requires a third less time to implement and a total investment well under the ERP average. The brand name abas Business Software (ERP, PPC, MRP, eBusiness) runs on Linux, Unix and Windows. Approximately 80% of all installations to-day are Linux-based. ABAS is headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany, and sells its software worldwide through its partner network.