The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

Usman Sheikh, vice president eChannels at SAP, spoke with blogger Dennis Howlett, JD-OD.com, at SAPPHIRE NOW in Madrid, about SAP’s eChannel strategy. Watch the video.

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

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

SAP TV recently visited the Republic of Ghana in West Africa. That’s where SAP is testing new business models that can be expanded for developing economies around the world. In partnership with SAP, Ghanaian farmers use modern technology to help run their businesses. For many, this can mean a secure income. The lessons learned from this project will help SAP roll out similar solutions for other fast growing markets around the world. (more…)

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.

In July 2010, the SAP Active Quality Management (AQM) organization launched a global pilot quality accreditation program targeted at value-added resellers for SAP Business All-in-One which has already been expanded to SAP Business One channel partners and SAP BusinessObjects partners. The program has been created to focus on actively managing quality with our channel partners. It not only provides transparency across partner-led projects but also goes further to embed high standards of quality within the partner organization itself. (more…)

How can collaboration improve sales? That’s the question Rahim Bhatia, SAP StreamWork VP, answered today during a session at SAPPHIRE NOW. Session attendees were looking for a way to help sales teams move from email and voicemail to a more structured and productive way of managing unstructured work and information. (more…)

In addition to presentations and discussion panels, this year’s SAPPHIRE NOW in Orlando, Florida, also offers a wide range of different microforums. A microforum provides a platform for up to twelve people to discuss a specific business topic within the SME space whereby a moderator hosts the conversation and encourages debate and networking. Some microforums feature SAP customers or partners. (more…)