Chapter Two–Mobile, On Demand and Big Dataįast forward to today. At its current pace, SAP estimates that it is on track to add about 5,000 new customers per year. Today, Business One has over 35,000 customers in over 80 countries. To help partners more easily extend solution functionality, SAP built an integration platform for Business One that has since attracted over 550 add-on solutions.

Business One is now available in 27 languages and 40 localizations.

Over the years, SAP has continued to invest in Business One to keep pace with changing market requirements and global demands. It provides a unified suite of financials, sales, customer relationship management, inventory and operations capabilities, along with embedded analytics and reporting capabilities. The solution is designed for small businesses that have little or no IT resources. SAP made the acquisition to provide small businesses (and subsidiaries in larger companies) with an affordable way to move up from entry-level accounting solutions to a single, integrated business management offering. Chapter One–A Brief Historyīusiness One has its roots in SAP’s acquisition of TopManage Financial Systems in 2002. Taken together, these developments could open a new chapter for Business One–and for small businesses that want to use IT to transform their businesses.

During the past year or so, SAP has also made some significant new investments in three key areas: mobile, on demand and big data. In the world of SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions for small and medium businesses (SMBs), SAP Business One is sometimes overshadowed by SAP Business All-in-One (BAiO), which has SAP’s large enterprise ERP at its core, and by and SAP Business ByDesign, which is SAP’s first software-as-a-service (SaaS) ERP entry.īut Business One, which is designed from the ground up to meet the needs of small businesses with fewer than 100 employees, has quietly kept growing both its capabilities and in new customer acquisition.

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