The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

Thanks to the wild popularity of smartphones such as iPhone and Blackberry, tablets such as iPad, and the apps that work with it, we have become the mobile generation, increasing using mobile devices for accessing the information we consume in our daily lives.   Market research supports this shift – according to a recent report by Gartner, worldwide smartphone shipments in Q2, 2011 grew by 74% over the same quarter last year to 107 million units.  (more…)

Approximately 80% of Forbes 2000 companies run SAP, but what percentage of SMBs (Small and Midsized Businesses) in the world run SAP?  That figure is difficult to calculate, but an increasing number of SMBs are acknowledging the advantages of SAP and are choosing SAP Business One to run their businesses. In fact, over 32,000 SMBs already run Business One. (more…)

As mentioned by Manju Bansal in a previous blog post, SAP Business One has historically been tagged as the small company ERP solution (i.e. those outgrowing their QuickBooks or Microsoft Excel-based accounting and tracking.) Even though it has over 32,000 customers worldwide and is SAP’s best-selling solution in terms of number of customers, it rarely generates the buzz or attention of some of SAP’s other offerings. (more…)

As the name implies, SAP TechEd offers technical education, such as hands-on workshops, deep-dive lectures and sessions with SAP technical experts about all things SAP. That said, TechEd isn’t for everyone, and it’s no wonder that most of the 6,500+ attendees at SAP TechEd 2011, held the week of September 12 in Las Vegas, were SAP partners and technology specialists from the vendor’s large enterprise accounts. (more…)

Have you ever walked down the street only to narrowly miss being run over by someone so engrossed in their smartphone that they were in their own world? Okay, happens everyday – especially here in the San Francisco Bay Area.  I used to think, how many dancing cats YouTube videos can these people watch!? (more…)