The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

SAP today announced the SAP Business One OnDemand solution, a new offering that aims to build upon the broad market success of the SAP Business One application, addressing small enterprise preferences for minimal up-front cost and lower IT operations. The announcement was made at CeBIT 2012. Read the press release.

SAP today announced two new offerings that will deliver the benefits of SAP HANA to SMEs. With analytics powered by SAP HANA for SAP Business One and SAP HANA, Edge edition, SMEs will be able to leverage powerful in-memory technology from SAP. Read the press release.

SAP today announced an update in its portfolio of on-premise and hosted business management solutions for small businesses with the 8.82 version of SAP Business One. With this new release, SAP continues to demonstrate its commitment to addressing specific product needs requested by small businesses. Read the newsbyte.

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) Brazil, a Sao Paulo-based subsidiary of Tata Motors, is using software from SAP to manage the growing demand for its luxury automobiles. With the support of SAP Business One, car manufacturer JLR Brazil is able to manage and automate its most critical and complex functions, including logistics, financials, inventory and tax compliance. As the 30,000th customer running the application, JLR Brazil is one of many growing organizations around the world that relies on the application to manage changing business needs. 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.

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.

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

Following the successful example of flexible deployment options for the SAP Business All-in-One application, SAP today announced a subscription-based, hosted delivery model for the SAP Business One solution. Addressing prospective customers’ preference for minimal upfront cost and IT overhead, this offering is provided exclusively through qualified SAP partners, including CAP Solutions, Datalab, Fasttrack, Onyx and Seidor. Read the newsbyte.

In a move to better meet the needs of even the smallest of companies, SAP today announced the availability of starter packages for the SAP Business One solution. SAP channel partners now can offer a fixed-price, small-scale option for companies needing to equip only one to five users with business software. Read the newsbyte.

After meeting with SME executives at SAPPHIRE NOW from Orlando in May, Laurie McCabe of the SMB Group at Cornerstone Consulting wrote an article about what she claims “may be SAP’s best kept secret”: SAP Business One. In her article, McCabe describes how small businesses with almost no IT resources can get up and running with the SAP Business One starter packages within just a few weeks, and how the solution can run directly on SAP HANA. Read the article