The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

Just one month after Hurricane Sandy roared through New York City, SAP’s NYC office hosted SAP’s first-ever small and medium sized enterprise (SME) summit yesterday. (more…)

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

Cindy Jutras, principal at Mint Jutras consulting firm discusses SAP Business One in her recent blog, highlighting what is new and what is next for this solution targeted at small businesses and midsize enterprises (SMEs). Jutras notes that beyond making the businesses of its customers more sustainable, SAP Business One is the beneficiary of new developments in business analytics, mobility and in-memory computing. Read the full blog.

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…)

If you’ve never seen a live television production in person, SAPPHIRE NOW broadcast studio sessions provide just that opportunity. In this session, we watched the behind-the-scenes preparation and production as two SAP customers talked about how they were innovating with cloud solutions. (more…)

What are the key benefits of the cloud-based solution SAP Business ByDesign from a customer and end-user perspective? This is the question Trevor Lovegrove, director of Alliances & Business Development at TechnoDyne is going to answer. (more…)

Peter Lorenz, executive vice president of On Demand at SAP presented the SAP cloud strategy to a packed theater in the Small and Midsize Enterprise campus on the first morning of SAPPHIRE NOW. He stated that SAP fundamentally believes on premise, on demand and on device all come together in the cloud. “It’s not a separate thing. Our strategy brings all these things together into one coherent strategy and roadmap.” (more…)