SES, again

Philippines-based enterprise software provider SES continued on its year-end roll last week, with CEO Clarisa Rojo announcing just before the holidays (and presumably, even SES employees got some well-deserved time off) that Gilat Satellite Networks had installed the Service and Marketing and Sales modules of SES’s CRM suite in its regional offices in Bangkok.

Gilat has installed SES’s Effective CRM (that’s a pretty funny name) modules for sales and service management of its operations in several Asian countries. Gilat’s Bangkok office will use Effective to enhance sales, marketing and customer service activities in the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and other countries where staff and equipment are located.

In mid-December, seemingly everything changed for heretofore little-known SES when completion of a reverse merger with software firm SFWJ was announced. With that announcement, Rojo declared that SES would be “concentrating its resources to gain leading position in CRM market for small and medium-sized enterprises in Asia Pacific, with a special focus on telecom operators.” Following the deal came a handful of subsequent announcements and agreements from Rojo et al.

SES inked IBM Philippines to a deal in which the Asia Pacific offshoot of the big company would be reselling SES Effective Customer Relationship Management suite in the country. Communications equipment provider Huawei Technologies also got aboard the SES bandwagon, purchasing SES’ CRM suite to enhance management of their equipment procurement and integration operations in the Philippines.

Gilat Satellite Networks designs, develops and markets satellite and hybrid networking products, services and solutions to operators in 85 countries. In the Asia Pacific region, Gilat works with service providers such as Bharti, China Unicom, ChinaSat, HCL, Optus and Tatanet, and has recently completed a $60 million round of financing.

SES Inc. is a Philippine-based software company providing enterprise software to small enterprises, medium-sized enterprises and telecom operators in functions such as workforce management, call centers, and resource management. SES’ latest addition to the market is Effective, a flexible software platform for organizational functions such as sales/marketing, service delivery, resource and operations management.