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.

Trends In The Evolution Of Business Intelligence

First, publishers trend to provide users with greater autonomy. From a DataWarehouse structured, each user must construct its statements independently. This concerns the reporting and additional applications such as budgeting. This trend is not without risk (inconsistent statements, management of entitlements, performance, no "single vision of truth" ...) but meets a real need from users.

Then, business intelligence has long been isolated from other applications because it was using specific tools. The user prefers yet have access to only one application giving everything, be it ERP, Mails, BI, etc.. These include that the proposed SOA including Visual Composer, a development tool (included in NetWeaver) that allows to build composite web applications. Thus, a user can fully analyze data from BW, place an order, read their emails and follow a work flow within a single page. Each page element is interacting with others.

Other trends include a special performance optimization of restitution by storing data from Data Warehouse (BI-Accelerator, BusinessObjects Explorer), the application of BI to non-quantitative data (social networks analysis text search on documents, etc.) and the arrival of BI solutions as SaaS (Software As A Service On-Demand, etc.).

Finally, we observe growing importance of the dimension "trade" in the draft decision. This was illustrated by the purchase of BO by SAP, and Hyperion by Oracle.

Effects Of RoadMap In BI

Effects of RoadMap and Perspectives:

A relational database management system is that the Roadmap contains the promise of long stability and charge for the basic package, which tends to appeal to some CIOs who know the charge related to media packages and upgrades.

In addition, developers of Business Explorer had made a powerful solution regarding such structures queries or navigation integrated into Excel. Business One has nevertheless a clear superiority in particular for formatting or autonomy of users.

The SAP will promote solutions BO (Business One) is therefore facing a Business Explorer widely used and offering good value for money and a lack of evolution finally over perceived as a guarantee of stability.

This vision is well understood in the short term, as between a solution but kept frozen and other evolving and incorporating features requested, we can easily imagine that the second will win eventually.

The influence of the editor in search of growth and integrators looking for opportunities is obvious. But the current betting is that SAP user influence in demand for autonomy and tools easy to use (and somewhat concerned by the issues of integration, platform or upgrade), will become predominant in choice of solutions.

SAP Basis

One of the biggest advantages of SAP is its adaptability and integration with other systems and software. Software BASIS is an intermediary that links a database with a system. SAP Basis Administrators configure systems during phases of facilities and improvements. The shortage of qualified personnel is growing which allows experts SAP Basis find working conditions very interesting. About SAP Basis jobs SAP BASIS jobs are becoming more common, and promise excellent opportunities. Several of its SAP jobs require candidates Polyglot. Their roles typically consist to install, troubleshoot, archive, improve system performance. The SAP Job Board offers its services to numerous companies, which need professionals to implement SAP BASIS SAP applications and support their growth.

Different Modules in SAP

Basically SAP offers 3 Basic Modules:

• Technical Consultants
• Functional Consultants
• New Dimensional Consultant

Technical Modules:
1. ABAP (Programming)
2. BASIS (Installation and Networking)
3. BIW (Business Information Warehousing)
4. BI (Business Intelligence)

Functional Modules:
1. FI/CO (Finance and Controlling With CIN)
2. HR (Human Resource)
3. PP (Production Planning)
4. MM (Material Management With CIN)
5. SD (Sales and Distribution With CIN)
6. PM (Plant Maintenance)
7. PS (Project System)
8. QM (Quality Management)

New Dimensional :
1. CRM (Customer Relationship Management)
2. SCM (Supply Chain Management)
3. SEM (Strategic Enterprise Management)
4. APO (Advanced Planner Optimizer)
5. EP (Enterprise Portal)
6. SRM (Supplier Relationship Management)
7. XI (Exchange Infrastructure)
8. IS Retail (Industry Specific Retail)

Modules of SAP

• Module MM - Material Management


• Module PP - Production Planning


• Module PS - Project Systems


• Module SD - Sales and Distribution


• Module FI


• Module CO - Controlling


• Module Basis - SAP System Administration


• Module CO-OM


• Module CO-PC


• Module CO-PA


• Module EC-PCA


• Module HR - Human Resources