Rainer Zinow, Senior Vice President in SAP’s Small and Midsized Enterprise Unit provides an annual outlook for SAP Business One and other mid market products. Rainer is a passionate advocate for SAP Business One, SAP Business ByDesign and SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.
SAP's Small and Midmarket Portfolio
It seems that every software company has a definition of the small and midmarkets. SAP’s roots are in the large enterprise and their size definitions tend to meander with the capabilities of their products. Although their flagship S/4 HANA products are now available in public clouds with pre-packaged industry solutions to enable rapid deployment and lower cost, these products remain overly sophisticated for most small to mid-size companies.
For small and midsize business SAP offers two “Enterprise Resource Planning” (ERP) products. SAP Business One and SAP Business ByDesign are both a comprehensive solutions, from accounting, financials, purchasing, inventory, sales, and customer relationships to reporting and analytics.
- SAP Business ByDesign is a “true” cloud solution focused on fast-growing, midsize business to scale and compete without the complexity and cost.
- SAP Business One is SAP’s “affordable ERP solution helps manage small businesses.”
Although SAP often downplays the scalability of Business One to avoid competing with its more complex products, it runs on the same HANA in memory computing platform as the larger products.
SAP Business One Cloud
Although organizations define “cloud” in accordance with their technology, the Open Alliance for Cloud Adoption has been an independent gold standard. With the SAP Cloud Control Center, the web-client and other technical advances SAP Business One has been progressing forward towards its goal of being a “true” cloud application.
The SAP Business One Web Client is a native web application with nearly complete access to all standard SAP Business One features and functions. Together with the investments announced by SAP, the slogan “SAP Business One Forever” seems more like a reality than a dream!
SAP Partner Summit for Midmarket
We are looking forward to attending the SAP Partner Summit for the midmarket this March 3-5 in Orlando. This re-imagined conference for organizations that partner with SAP will focus on driving growth in the midmarket and SMB space by aligning partners with SAP’s latest innovations in Cloud ERP, Artificial Intelligence, SAP Business Transformation Platform, as well as SAP Business One. With hands-on workshops, targeted content tracks, and exclusive access to SAP’s sales, marketing, and product executive leaders, partners will gain practical strategies to help their customers and drive their business forward