The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

Pre-configured software.  Smoother implementations.  Faster adoption.  Sound like something that your small or medium sized business could benefit from? (more…)

Your midsized business customers have extremely complex business requirements. As a solutions provider partnering with SAP, you know that scaled-down, vanilla, nothing-special implementations of enterprise applications just will not work for them. (more…)

In a previous blog post, guest contributor Cindy Jutras, president of Mint Jutras, outlined the advantages of taking a platform approach, combining applications with database and technology. But in taking such approach Cindy cautioned against sacrificing functionality or performance. In that post Cindy set the stage (more…)

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On March 6, 2012, SAP announced big changes in their SMB ERP strategy. The cloud/on-demand offerings from SAP have been so successful that SAP is now extending their cloud offering to Business One, which was previously only available on premise. SAP announced today that Business One will be offered both on premise and on demand. (more…)

Many have their heads in the cloud today. This goes for both individuals, as well as companies. The interest in Software as a Service (SaaS) has been steadily increasing over the past several years, led by enterprise applications such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and elements of Human Capital Management (HCM) such as recruitment, talent management and benefits administration. (more…)

This year’s SAP TechEd was the first to feature an SME (Small to Midsize Enterprise) track. As we wrap up Las Vegas (next stop Madrid), it is time to reflect on the real relevance to SME of the themes and messages presented at TechEd. Much of the event was an excellent presentation of technology, followed by some ideas and examples of how you might use that technology.  That is the way IT departments in large enterprises might approach their IT strategy and budget. And, after all the intended audience for the event was IT in general and developers in particular. But typically there aren’t any developers in small companies and most SMEs have very limited IT staffs. So really the SME audience at TechEd was the partners that service those SMEs. (more…)

All the talk at SAPTechEd this week has been about HANA, SAP’s new in-memory computing engine. While there were plenty of “techies” at the event this week, you don’t have to be too much of a technologist to understand that processing data that is stored in memory is going to be a lot faster than processing it from disk. And results from early adopters have been more than impressive. Examples include Yodobashi who took the process of running incentive payments from 3 days down to 2 seconds. Or Nong-fu Spring who ran the same script in HANA and in an Oracle data mart and found HANA to be 200 times faster. In fact these results are so impressive, one SAP customer said to me, “It sounds too good to be true.”

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Midsize companies want to benefit from new innovations and enhancements to their software that help improve employee productivity and their company’s competitiveness. To consider the installation of enhancements to be a success, companies require minimal-to-zero disruption to their business, especially in areas not affected by the enhancements. Now throw in limited IT resources – both current staff and budget for contractors – at many of these companies. Discussions can quickly shift from the benefits of the enhancements to whether the company can really afford the potential risks and costs.

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