Empoli FI, 50053,
Italy
VAR Group
VAR Group, a prominent reseller, system integrator, and consulting company, that plays a vital role in numerous system integration and digital transformation initiatives. VAR Group collaboration with software players such as IBM, Sailing and SAP empowers organizations to embrace disruptive technologies and accelerate their journey to the cloud, thus reshaping their business models.
| Reseller and SI | Vendor | Application | Category | Market |
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| VAR Group | IBM | IBM SPSS Modeler | ML and Data Science Platforms | AI Development |
| VAR Group | Sailing | Sailing Arete | Point Of Sale | ERP Services and Operations |
| VAR Group | SAP | SAP S/4 HANA | ERP Financial | ERP |
| VAR Group | SAP | SAP S/4 HANA - Production Planning (PP) | Advanced Planning and Scheduling | SCM |
| VAR Group | SAP | SAP S/4 HANA - Sales and Distribution (SD) | Supply Chain Management | SCM |
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Banca Alpi Marittime Italy | Banking and Financial Services | 201 | $130M | Italy | IBM | IBM SPSS Modeler | ML and Data Science Platforms | 2019 |
In 2019, Banca Alpi Marittime Italy deployed an AI-driven Credit Scorecard approvals engine using IBM SPSS Modeler within its ML and Data Science Platforms environment to automate consumer and small business credit line renewals and applications in the Piedmont region. The implementation used IBM SPSS Modeler as the primary modeling and scoring runtime and targeted the bank's retail and small business lending workflows to accelerate decisioning and improve customer service.
The technical implementation centered on scorecard development, automated decision rules and production model scoring pipelines built with IBM SPSS Modeler, with model deployment and inference orchestrated to support automated approvals. The solution was configured to escalate higher risk or complex cases for manual review while automatically resolving standard renewals, enabling the engine to vet roughly 50% of credit requests automatically.
Delivery and operationalization were executed with IBM partner Analytics Network S.r.l. and supported by VAR Group, ensuring transfer of models into daily lending operations. Operational coverage included credit underwriting, retail operations and front office customer service teams across the Piedmont region, with scoring outputs embedded into the bank's approval workflows and case handling processes to drive straight through processing for eligible requests.
Governance was organized around model monitoring and approval workflows overseen by credit risk and compliance stakeholders, with procedural changes to routing and exception handling to reflect automated decision thresholds. The deployment freed approximately 10 full time equivalents for other tasks and achieved rapid return on investment within months as stated by the bank, while maintaining explicit human review for nonstandard cases.
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Conad Nord Ovest Italy | Retail | 19000 | $6.1B | Italy | Sailing | Sailing Arete | Point Of Sale | 2018 |
In 2018, Conad del Tirreno implemented Sailing Arete, a SaaS Point Of Sale and customer-experience platform from Sailing. The deployment targeted Conad del Tirreno's Italian store network, delivering in-region Point Of Sale services across approximately 350 stores in Italy. VAR Group served as the implementation partner for the rollout.
The implementation used Aretè Front Office / XPos and Customer features to enable real-time POS processing, centralized promotions management and click&collect order handling. The SaaS architecture centralized promotional orchestration while XPos devices at store level handled omnichannel checkout and self-service interactions. Functional coverage included checkout operations, promotions configuration, in-store customer engagement and click&collect fulfillment workflows.
Operational governance consolidated promotion configuration and checkout rules into a centralized management layer to maintain consistency across sites, with store-level XPos endpoints enforcing standardized policies. Rollout was executed as a regional SaaS provisioning campaign across Conad del Tirreno stores in Italy, coordinated with VAR Group. The deployment delivered omnichannel checkout, self-service and centralized promo management across about 350 stores.
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MARPOSS | Manufacturing | 3500 | $136M | Italy | SAP | SAP S/4 HANA - Sales and Distribution (SD) | Supply Chain Management | 2021 |
In 2021, MARPOSS implemented SAP S/4 HANA - Sales and Distribution (SD) to centralize transactional processes and support international growth from its Bentivoglio headquarters. The initial rollout served as a pilot and foundation for a group-wide ERP model delivered by VAR BMS, a Var Group company, with the objective of harmonizing corporate data across manufacturing plants and sales locations worldwide.
The deployment of SAP S/4 HANA - Sales and Distribution (SD) targeted core functional areas, combining the SD module with finance, purchasing, production and MRP capabilities to support multiple business models including make to stock, make to order, engineering to order and services. Implementation followed SAP S/4HANA Best Practices in progressive waves and step releases, enabling a pilot go-live within six months in a recently acquired small manufacturing entity, and then extension to the parent company back office and the Italian distributor.
Architecture and operations were configured for cloud-hosted, redundant SAP services provided 7×24 by Var Group, enabling a repeatable template for replication across group companies and testing scalability against the Marposs organizational structure. The implementation produced real-time digital models that deliver consistent snapshots of business state to management, supporting decision-making and more transparent information exchange between locations.
Governance and rollout management relied on a dedicated team of several dozen VAR BMS consultants, phased wave planning, and a model-based configuration approach to standardize processes at the corporate level. The solution now manages over 750 live users and is positioned for a planned roll-out to all Italian and foreign production and sales facilities, with the SAP S/4 HANA - Sales and Distribution (SD) deployment categorized under Supply Chain Management and impacting sales, distribution and production planning functions.
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Manufacturing | 3500 | $136M | Italy | SAP | SAP S/4 HANA | ERP Financial | 2021 |
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Manufacturing | 3500 | $136M | Italy | SAP | SAP S/4 HANA - Production Planning (PP) | Advanced Planning and Scheduling | 2021 |
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