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ORLANDO — SAP today unveiled its accelerated cloud strategy by announcing cloud solutions for four lines of business to manage people, money, customers and suppliers. (more…)

From CeBIT 2012, SAP today announced several key updates across its growing portfolio of cloud offerings, including line-of-business application services and its cloud suite, the SAP Business ByDesign solution. New and existing customers alike are responding to the company’s set of cloud solutions, including SAP Sourcing OnDemand, SAP Sales OnDemand and the newest offering, SAP Travel OnDemand. Read the press release.

Stephen Watts, president of SAP Asia Pacific Japan (APJ), recently spoke with Biztech2.0 about how important a platform is for the growth of the SME market. Visit Biztech2.0.com to watch the video.

Based on strong co-innovation with customers and partners, SAP today announced general availability of the second release of the SAP Business ByDesign solution in 2011. SAP Business ByDesign is now available for Australia and Mexico, and includes language support for Spanish. Mobile support is also planned to be extended to include the Windows 7 mobile platform. Read the press release.

In this article in Forbes Magazine, Maureen Farrell and Sean Stonefield write about the current situation of America’s 27 million small businesses with fewer than 500 employees, how they made it through the recession, and what they expect in the near future. Read the article.

SAP Business ByDesign enables customers to gain visibility and control to optimize cash flows. Learn how easy it is to generate accurate liquidity forecasts, monitor inflows and outflows, gain timely visibility into cash balances, and how the solution allows people to use Microsoft Excel to generate and publish reports. (more…)

After attending last week’s EuroCloud Congress 2011 in Luxemburg, Phil Wainewright, vice president of EuroCloud, blogged about what he argues is “SAP’s recipe for success in the cloud.” In the short article, he sums up and gives insight into the principles behind SAP’s on-demand strategy presented in a keynote by Rainer Zinow, senior vice president for on-demand strategy at SAP. Read the article

Real-time data analysis, collaboration à la Facebook, and forecasts thanks to BI features – SAP Business Suite has received a number of interesting new functions. We’ll show you what Innovations 2010 offers to SAP users. Read the full SAP.info article.

In an interview with Ray Wang, principal analyst and CEO at Constellation Research Group, Peter Lorenz, executive vice president of On Demand at SAP, discusses cloud computing, including why it is changing the world for SAP customers. Read the interview on Forbes.com.

SAP today announced that the San Jose Sharks, a National Hockey League team currently in the third round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, has successfully completed the initial implementation of the SAP Sports and Entertainment Management solution. Bramasol Inc., an SAP gold partner, has been responsible for the creation of important interfaces and will focus on developing industry-specific add-ons for the project as a next step. Read the press release.