Midmarket Initiative Gains Pace
We developed the following new solutions and releases for small businesses and midsize companies in 2007:
- SAP Business All-in-One: We completed the development, ready for release early in 2007, of a new generation of the SAP Business All-in-One solutions. Based on SAP ERP and SAP CRM, the solutions leverage the power of an enterprise SOA to offer midsize customers new levels of flexibility and simplicity in their use. SAP’s development partners also introduced many SAP Business All-in-One complementary solutions, which now number more than 80. Deepening support for midsize companies in specific industries, we added 60 SAP Best Practices offerings midyear, designed to boost the operational power of SAP Business All-in-One solutions.
- SAP Business ByDesign: In September, we launched SAP Business ByDesign. We developed this solution for midsize companies, complementing our existing portfolio of midmarket solutions. SAP Business ByDesign delivers simplicity, adaptability, and a wide range of functions at low running cost. SAP Business ByDesign is a complete on-demand software solution for businesses with 100 to 500 employees – fast growing companies that typically have not experienced integrated business solutions before
- SAP Business One: In 2007, we added many core business processes to SAP Business One. The SAP Business One 2007 release offers many new financial capabilities from reconciliation to reporting that are designed to enable small businesses to leverage local best practices and meet local customary requirements. The solution comes with many new and redesigned screens and interfaces to make it easier to use, faster to access information, and more scaleable. It also adds new Webbased capabilities such as Web CRM and e-commerce to provide a single integrated system for small businesses to manage their business online and offline.
Significant Expansion of Business User Portfolio
We expanded our portfolio of products with innovative offerings, notably:
- SAP solutions for GRC: We delivered a new version of the SAP GRC Global Trade Services application to help customers better integrate processes related to import and export. The SAP Customs Processing for Automated Export Systems application, which our developers also completed in 2007, helps customers comply with new EU procedures by facilitating electronic communication with EU customs systems. The new version of the SAP GRC Process Control application has new functions to make it simpler to handle the internal controls required for management certification. We released the new SAP GRC Risk Management application, which provides automated functions for risk planning, identification, and analysis across companies’ lines of business. An enhanced version of the SAP GRC Access Control application simplifies the compliant assignment and management of user authorizations for IT systems and access to data.
- Analytic blueprints from SAP: By acquiring Pilot Software we added a critical piece of new technology that is now integrated into our portfolio of analytic applications. We can now offer customers tools to foster the alignment of their business strategy across all of their organizations. This has the potential to make our core products, such as our applications for ERP, CRM, and SCM, even more attractive for our customers.
- SAP Strategy Management: We acquired Pilot Software to enhance our portfolio of strategy management software. Customers use the SAP Strategy Management application to continuously manage and assess the three cornerstones of business performance – metrics, decisions, and goals.
- SAP Business Planning and Consolidation: Our acquisition of OutlookSoft, a specialist company providing financial and strategy performance measurement solutions, extended our portfolio of solutions to help chief financial officers (CFOs). With its integrated planning, budgeting, forecasting, and consolidation capabilities, it is a solution that provides an effective control and planning toolbox. It also enables companies to conduct their business analysis more thoroughly and in more detail.
- Mobile Business: Responding to growing interest in mobile business processes, we developed new mobile solutions and enhancements to existing mobile applications. Employees with mobile devices can be given full access to all core business processes from anywhere with our current offering.
- Duet: Duet, which has been available since 2006, enables information workers to use SAP-based business data and business process software in the familiar Microsoft Office environment. In March 2007, we delivered a value pack with new scenarios for sales management, travel management, and demand planning. It comes with new configuration tools for the system administrator, and with more languages.
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