SAP Announces Improvements In Its Products And Attract New Customers

SAP BusinessObjects Data Services and BusinessObjects Data Federator, which are now more integrated into the SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse, can supply all the business processes into reliable data.

To provide organizations a reliable information base, intended for all of their key processes and decision-making, SAP AG announced enhancements to SAP software BusinessObjects Data Services and SAP BusinessObjects Data Federator, which are an integral part of SAP BusinessObjects management information.

These solutions are compatible with both environments SAP and non-SAP and SAP customers see their compatibility is strengthened through integration with SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW). Whatever the underlying system, SAP provides business information whose reliability is assured, allowing them to successfully launch initiatives in areas such as decision analysis, management of customer relationship management (CRM), the Resource Planning (ERP), the chain management (SCM), migration of systems and data governance. The significant growth of its customer base and strong recognition of the sector to illustrate how the market dominance of SAP BusinessObjects Information Management gives business users the ability to have integrated data and accurate and timely.

In a world accumulating huge amounts of data and many disparate sources, it is more important than ever to rely on the accuracy and timeliness of corporate information. The growth of organizations, internal and external, has exacerbated the challenge. The SAP BusinessObjects information management continue to help companies manage this problem by enabling them to ensure the availability, integrity and transparency of all their data, regardless of their origin and format.

SAP Abandons The Classic Accommodation

The hosting business outsourcing solutions historic SAP is transferred to T-Systems. Application SaaS Business ByDesign is not affected by the operation.

T-Systems is preparing to hand over the hosting business of SAP in Europe. Subject to the approval of competition authorities, the transaction is expected to close early October 2009. The applications of nearly 90 clients, now housed at SAP, will then be transferred to plants in the SSII. The release of T-Systems does not specify if those used by SAP are concerned.

The subsidiary of leading Telecom company said that this operation is part of its building strategy around SAP environments. Recently, it has won a huge contract integration and outsourcing services for the SAP ERP supplier of Continental, and resumed business consultancy Logica's SAP in Switzerland. In contrast, SAP continues to operate the lodging its application in SaaS Business ByDesign. Internal source, the search for partners to ensure that service should not start before 2010.

PLM Places A Major Role In ERP Product

The tendency to incorporate a brick PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) in ERP solution is strong. Customers have realized the importance of complementary applications in their information system and the benefits of a link with data and documents generated in the study phases such as with CAD.

The multitude of data and documents that circulate within the company, Maybe Word and Excel documents, PDFs, emails, reports or report must be structured in a single repository, secure and shared so provide access to good information in minimum time. The traceability of information and compliance documentation processes are crucial for developing its know-how and markets.

What does a PLM solution to ERP users?

• A complete PLM solution with functions of GOL, PDM, workflow, document management projects, ...
• A single document repository associated with the items and classifications
• The integration between Design Chain and Supply Chain
• Removing duplicates and multiple arrest of technical data
• The possible access to documents directly from the card section of the ERP
• The collaboration between technical teams
• Traceability and secure access to all data and documents
• Recovery data directly from CAD to ERP
• The accelerated process for managing changes (ECO, ECR, ECN)
• Automatic generation of technical documents, records, Ranges, Etc. ...

SaaS Model Requires A Specific Platform To Exist

The computer saw the pace of change announcements and Buzz, which makes it difficult to differentiate a true revolution of a simple evolution. At one time it was thought that a software package integrated with a monolithic view, will meet the needs of the business, and now the leaders of the ERP SAP to Oracle through Miscrosoft we "cram" lectures on the virtues of SaaS, or even launch offers "real" in this model (SAP, ...).

SaaS stands for Software as a Service. This is a technology of providing services or software through the Web rather than through a desktop application or client-server. The SaaS concept, emerged in the early 2000s, is promoted to take the place of the Application Service Provider (ASP).

SaaS will offer us a new generation of software, modular and flexible, organized into reusable business services, configurable, accessible via the Web (or simply via the corporate network), while respecting the contract a SLA and QoS.

Crisis Virtual SAP

The German press, notably by the voices of co-founders of SAP, excessive measures that may conceal other intentions.

End of January 2009, SAP released strong financial results for fiscal 2008, hailed by the business press: 14% increase in turnover, 1.88 billion euros in net profit, 1.84 billion of cash flow (free cash flow), and an operating margin of 24.6%. Where others open the champagne, SAP talks about crisis and poured into catastrophic. By the end of 2008, SAP prepared by the spirits of drastic cost reductions that have affected the working conditions of many employees. In discussing the possible use of more stringent measures (if necessary), SAP made a diversion and refuses its employees a clear justification of its real motivations.

SAP Attack SaaS

A provider of accounting software online, has refuted claims the CEO of SAP, the software online is "more expensive and risky" than traditional desktop software.

SAP is a leading global provider of management software. End of last year, it began testing its own products "SaaS Business by Design ", but they found it difficult to migrate its existing portfolio in SaaS and could not find the right format to make it profitable.

Mark Davies, Director of e-ECONOMIC said: I am perplexed by comments from SAP. SAP has obviously thought it was desirable to get involved in SaaS, yet less than a year later, they began to complain. If experiencing difficulties in implementing its business model to SaaS, is one thing, but to absorb the entire principle of SaaS is misleading to consumers and patently false!.

According to Gartner, more than one third of all software will be delivered by SaaS within 3 years and a recent McKinsey report said that 61% of CIOs considering SaaS. The service charge is SAP raise 30% last year. In a recession, companies will seek to reduce costs and increase efficiency in every way possible, and the costs and benefits of SaaS are difficult to deny. Based on comparisons of prices of a number of major suppliers of traditional accounting software, small businesses can save an average of up to 59% on the cost basis of accounting software using an online solution instead of traditional software.

SAP Business Objects Aims To Revolutionize The Business Intelligence

SAP has announced a new tool that will "revolutionize" Business Intelligence and therefore how to consult and work with data. Finding of SAP is that current tools may be a bit too sharp for some users and for others not enough time. With SAP BusinessObjects Explorer you can view your data at the speed of your thinking (Delivers Insight at the Speed of Thought).

On the video of the annual conference "Saphire 09" demo to explore is presented (going in the 24th minute). Navigation is really different from a normal BO. The user parameter over his pictures or graphics it just goes on Explorer and click on headings, graphic objects and updates itself. We are in a consultation tour of the data with some latitude but always within a defined framework.

The benefits highlighted are speed and ease of use (it's true that it has no complicated area) for the end user. In addition you will also have an iPhone application available for access your data anywhere.

When I see that I can not help but say that is better for the user but at the setting there must be a job. He must think the analysis and data in early to ensure optimum utilization and ensure good service. Also with this tool what about further analysis that are needed some time to study a situation and bring a new light. Unless explore really can do what I do not know (which I doubt) it would end up with users to master BO and BO Explorer and other using only BO Explorer.

SAP Market leads In Business Intelligence

The market for Business Intelligence has increased by 21.7% in 2008 compared to 2007 to reach 8.8 billion dollars. SAP's are 23.8% of this big cake way ahead of SAS and Oracle are both at 14.6%.

Decomposition of the BI market in 2008:

• SAP (23.8%)
• SAS Institute (14.6%)
• Oracle (14.6%)
• IBM (11.3%)
• Microsoft (7.7%)
• MicroStrategy (3.2%)
• Other (24.7%)

SaaS Has Attracted 61% Of Companies

SaaS means Software as a Service. The software is online and the customer pays according to its use. The SaaS software are often (not always) cheaper. In times of crisis, they turn out to release because of low cost. Also in times of crisis, companies are not likely to make wholesale changes in their management systems. It will therefore opinion for small changes in the application of media applications such as human resource management and customer relationship management. Places where you can have a return on investment (ROI).

Apart from my part, I deal almost exclusively with small businesses. Their goals to improve very significantly the business processes in very cheap.

It is true that the ERP, Enterprise Resource Planning are more complex. By cons, for SMEs, development of such customized applications can be very profitable. When one focuses on what a company really needs and that we want to develop an application that will fully support optimal processes, technology, SaaS or Cloud Computing can make miracles.

The SaaS Model Requires A Specific Platform To Exist

SaaS stands for Software as a Service. This is a technology of providing services or software through the Web rather than through a desktop application or client-server. The SaaS concept, emerged in the early 2000s, is promoted to take the place of the Application Service Provider (ASP).

At one time it was thought that a software package integrated with a monolithic view, will meet the needs of the business, and now the leaders of the ERP SAP to Oracle through Miscrosoft we "cram" lectures on the virtues of SaaS, or even launch offers "real" in this model (SAP, ...).

SaaS will offer us a new generation of software, modular and flexible, organized into reusable business services, configurable, accessible via the Web (or simply via the corporate network), while respecting the contract a SLA and QoS. According to the report, emerging platform wars in enterprise software, market size for SaaS could reach 37 Billion dollars over the next 5 years.

The move towards SaaS, according to the report it is unavoidable, the movement is initiated, the race between publishers is launched, is to know (the evil one who can guess ...) how long will it take to settle in scheme Standing and the list of "lucky survivors", and the pretender to the throne. SaaS has significant impact on software vendors, who have a "launch window" limited their offers to migrate to a SaaS model or risk being wiped out by competition from new entrants.

"The road to SaaS", it recalls the ads at the time of passage of the mainframe to client / server two-tier, or the long transition from client / server to n-tier architectures, whether rich client or light, long before the advent of AJAX and mashups then, what will that characterizes this "new version of Paradigm Shift".

Governance To Discover For SAP

SAP will have to address potential conflicts of interest between its partners and its own ambitions. Asked about possible differences between players in the market and SAP, on the occasion of a new version could literally wiped off the map all the partners who offer a process covered by the basic package, the head is reassuring: We think in fact in this case, For example we might offer our partners a new commitment to 12 months forcing us not to launch the process directly competing offers. This is a point still under consideration.

The next update of SAP ByDesign, version 2.5, is expected in the third quarter of 2009. It will be the first to benefit from a global launch. However, it must wait until 2010 to witness the launch of the bid cloud of SAP.

A Logical Extension Of Business In SAP

There are to date more than 400 applications developed for Business One partners, argues Luis Murguia, senior vice president of SAP for Europe. Since the advanced warehouse management to enterprise resource planning to farm salmon, from the rum distillery, the most diverse solutions have emerged about Business One. There on the market today to a war between ecosystems. And it is he who will have the expertise to win this war. This ecosystem, SAP will attempt to recreate in its cloud offering.

Few details have filtered to date on the Saas platform and development environment that will provide SAP partners. We are currently experimenting C # Ruby but no decision has been taken on the language to be supported. It will be anyway a scripting language. This added that the aspect of business data, the object model is in line with the work of UN/CEFACT in which SAP is involved.

Like Apple's App Store, SAP will resigns supreme on the marketplace and decide who has the right to commercialize an application and can not do?

It is a volume market. All publishers can publish their applications on our marketplace. There will be no exclusive to anyone. The only constraints are the rules of implementation that we set. For applications running on our platform, we must learn how the software is built and ensure its quality. Similarly, if an editor extends the original data model of ERP, it must develop the game of Web Services that will be necessary to access and manipulate this data.

SAP Preparing A Cloud To Expand Its SaaS Offering

On the model of Salesforce's, SAP is developing its cloud offering to create and support an ecosystem of partners around its ERP for SME, SAP Business ByDesign. It was during a European event dedicated to SMEs, senior vice president in charge of SAP's strategy of SMEs has missed the information: "We will provide a development environment for SAP Business ByDesign".

Not only it will soon be possible to develop applications for SAP Business ByDesign, but it will run on the platform Saas SAP. Finally, a marketplace will be launched for the publishing partners can market their achievements.

SAP is now on the market for SaaS solutions for SMEs since the launch of SAP Business ByDesign in 2007. If the commercial debut of its ERP system have been difficult, SAP believes more than ever in its offering and recently announced at Sapphire 2009, its version 2.0. An important development in terms of user interface and functionality.

But it was in 2010 that SAP Business ByDesign will know his true revolution. The ERP giant will expand the number of countries where supply is available, but above all he is planning to open its Saas platform to third party publishers. They will publish extensions to Business ByDesign to extend its functional coverage, to meet specific needs, a step he took on Business One, its software package for SMEs.

Integration Of SAP BW And BO

The announcement of the Roadmap has generated many responses from customers.

Two cases illustrate this property:

The first concerns those who have invested reporting solutions Business Explorer and not wishing to invest on additional licenses BO. According to the survey by VISEO with USF in 2008, the majority of customers recognize the quality of RB solutions (including formatting and user self), but are not ready to short term invest in these solutions benefit.

The second is that SAP customers must present a choice of solution. Among the criteria often expressed is the incorporation of BO with their BW DataWarehouse. Integration is possible with more or less effort in projects, but the platforms are often separated. This platform independence is an argument to convince non-SAP customers to implement without having to install NetWeaver.

For example, it is possible to generate BO universe from BEX queries or to unify the management of users, but with servers and BW BOE separated. Sometimes the point is more subtle: BPC NetWeaver released version, but the specific InfoCubes PCBs will currently not compatible with the Query Designer. This temporary lack of integration can also have the perverse effect of bringing the tools non-SAP system landscape, a prior dedicated.

The integration between all the solutions is of course expected to run. Meanwhile, the number of CIOs polled in the survey VISEO-USF no plans to introduce a non-integrated solution in the short term, preferring, for example Integrated Planning to PCBs.

SAP Web Applications Runs

Once the applications are built, it is possible to execute in the SAP Portal which particularly in management of business roles and access rights. It is also possible to run the Web Dynpro in on-line mode on mobile. To migrate an interface "PC" to interface "Mobile", it should only adjust the interface.

Some things to remember about the architecture development NWDI (Netweaver Development Infrastructure). It built around several components:

• CBS - (This is the part that will build your archive)
• CMS - (This is the part that will transport components of your environment to another)
• DTR - (Which is the repository will store your developments and manage the version)
• LTC - (It is here that you will define your configuration and WAS systems, use ECC)

NWDS (Netweaver Development Studio): This is the development environment, it is actually an eclipse of SAP, i.e., it incorporates all IDEs necessary for the proper development of WD's.

SAP WORLD

SAP offers through the SAP NetWeaver platform all the components necessary to build a Web application and its exposure mode Intranet or Internet. SAP provides various tools for developing user interface WEB application.

• Web Dynpro - ABAP: Web Dynpro proposes a model of modeling language (metamodel) for the uniform construction of all user interface that accelerates development. Web Dynpro strictly separates the presentation layer and business data (MVC). SAP Web Dynpro technology communicates with Adobe Flex / Flash and allows the construction of interfaces 2.0.


• Web Dynpro - JAVA: The major differences with the version of ABAP, The development environment is not the same one side Java based on NWDI and NWDS unlike the WD ABAP it is via the SE80, Access to data is native.


• VISUAL COMPOSER: Visual Composer allows you to compose applications without requiring to code. Ergonomics is based on standard flash libraries. The possibilities of implementations are limited to the models provided by SAP.


• BSP - HTMLB: This technology combines the ABAP programming languages, HTML and javascript. It is very open and allows all the creative liberties on SAP WebAS. It is possible to develop using the MVC but not an obligation. The technology exists on installer's. It is to recommend for further development of a Web application on SAP.

The Future Of Business Intelligence

The needs for business to know their environment and to identify opportunities and risks has given rise to practices of economic intelligence. Analyze the legal, fiscal, geopolitical, financial and especially trading is widespread. Now it combines the concept of risk management, which is a natural extension.

Business intelligence is a simplified yet vital economic intelligence. It is to monitor the performance of business processes, and compare them to the market (benchmark) and predetermined objectives (budget). For example, we wish to know the growth of a market segment and compare it to competitors.

Often there is confusion between the practices and objectives of business intelligence and tools to implement to achieve this. Indeed, monitor performance requires first to be able to collect raw data, wherever they are, and present them to users in the form that suits them to the best. The business intelligence tools fulfill this task, and there are usually three levels:

• Data collection and processing into usable information is provided by ETL (extraction, transformation, loading).
• Storage and modeling in a form compatible with the tools of recovery are provided by the DataWarehouse
• The return on the screen of the user reporting tools - dashboards, analysis in Excel or in Web reports in a list, etc.

BI solution without the need for analysis is covered by static states reporting to the ERP or by statements prepared manually in Excel, which have many disadvantages (preparation time, errors, cumbersome files, no sharing, no access self-service, etc.).

Business Intelligence is booming is because companies have realized the need to provide all the latest information and more personalized as possible. Knowledge of information is a condition of performance and survival in a complex and highly competitive.

SAP NW Resumes All Technologies

SAP NetWeaver resume all technologies and strategies:

• Business Services - (Pre-packaged, Business Packages, Web ...)
• Standards and open technology - (industry standards, interoperability, industry standard ...)
• ABAP and JAVA technologies - (SAP kernel, portal, eCommerce, services and developments)
• Security - (Identity, authorization, encryption, SSO, Network Security ...)
• Internationalization - (multilingual adaptation process to the country, legal obligations ...)
• Interoperability with market tools - (Microsoft. NET, IBM WebSphere ...)
• Monitoring and Diagnostics environments - (BI Solution Manager and Alerting, Monitoring ...)

This unique platform for application integration to unify and to exploit synergies between people, processes, information (structured and unstructured) and ensures a better infrastructure management SAP share the same base (MySAP Business Suite, SAP CRM, SAP SRM, SAP ECC ...).

SAP Business One

SAP Business One is simple, efficient and tailored to the needs of small and medium enterprises. Very economical for those who want to enjoy simple and powerful functionality, SAP Business One offers a comprehensive suite of management functions: Accounting, Purchasing, Sales Administration, Inventory Management, Customer Relationship Management, Production Management and Reporting.

Ready to use and quick to implement SAP Business One meets your immediate needs and future growth in your business. The return on investment is faster than traditional solutions tailored to perform only a single task. For better communication between all departments of the company and while controlling the internal resources, our customers enjoy a high level of service. This is the true value of an ERP such as SAP Business One.

Benefits of SAP

SAP customers quickly realize the benefits of working with operational standards. They can improve the management of fleet SAP and promote initiatives in automation to reduce operational costs. SAP operational standards also improve the transparency and traceability of IT investments, helping companies to more easily reconcile their objectives in terms of quality of service and compliance.