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SAP's Business One Starter Package continues to gain popularity with prominent brands and businesses across the African continent. Planet Electronics is among those to recently implement the solution, and the company is already seeing improvements in its business processes around the importing and distribution of automotive electronic accessories and household audio equipment. The SAP Business One Starter Package is a pre-configured solution - for one to five users - that can be tailored further to meet business needs. “We're delighted with our recent purchase and installation of SAP Business One,” says Planet Electronics' director, Guyck van Heerden.

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) stand to benefit after the launch of the SAP Business One software that is tailor-made to efficiently manage business processes at lower costs. Introduced in the country by Associate Business Consultants, ABC Rwanda.

SAP Business ByDesign offers you a full integrated wizard for your implementation. You only need to know your business and you can implement a full ERP solution within 6-8 weeks. This article takes you step by step through the wizards and types of questions you need to answer as a business.

There’s news for those of us interested in manufacturing ERP: a new cloud ERP provider is having its coming-out party this week at Dreamforce, the annual user conference of Salesforce.com. Kenandy, which is built entirely on Salesforce.com’s platform, provides core … Continue reading →

Softengine lends expertise gained from engineering SAP Business One as a SaaS -based offering. "SAP Business One users want to get the most out of their enterprise applications and rely on partners to provide innovative deployment options.

SAP has never unveiled a public pricing list, even though archrival Oracle does. A look at why SAP doesn’t, how it affects negotiations and if transparent SaaS pricing models will force enterprise vendors’ hands.

SAP Business One Gets New Hosted, Subscription ModelPCWorldSAP's Business One suite for small businesses will now be available in a new subscription-based, hosted offering through SAP partners, the company announced Tuesday. Business One is sold exclusively through partners, ...and more »

Nationwide transport and warehousing specialist Shipping and General Services has contracted SAP Business One solutions provider 4most to supply, implement, commission and support an accounting and ERP software solution at its operational headquarters in Johannesburg. A neutral transport and warehousing services supplier to major clearing and forwarding agents, Shipping and General Services has requested that the SAP Business One software solution includes “track and trace” Internet functionality so that customers will be able to track the progress of their goods in transit and storage.

SAP Business One launched on Tuesday with limited fanfare as efforts to penetrate the local market gather momentum for an application driven business that has failed to make significant inroads into the local market against traditional rivals such as AccPac and Quick Books.

The SAP Business One software specialist in the Logic Group, 4most, has opened a permanent office in Gaborone to service the growing market for affordable mid-market accounting and financial software solutions in Botswana. “We are looking to expand our customer base and see the SADC area as a key region for growth alongside East and West Africa,” said 4most managing director Eugene Olivier.

There are over 85 sessions covering Cloud, Software as a Service (SaaS) and on-demand solutions at SapphireNow. This blog provides the master list and a couple quick tips on how to quickly find and add relevant sessions to your Sapphire Now agenda, and where to go to get more information.

On HANA, McDermott said that the pipeline is in the ‘triple digit millions’ and that the pipeline is currently growing at a rate of €10 million per WEEK. He added that SAP is seeing the strongest demand in Japan though there is also strong demand in the US. From conversations I’ve had with colleagues, demand for HANA is across the board but with an emphasis on retail, CPG and utilities.

Superga Footwear, a brand well known for its range of colourful and dynamic prints, is thrilled about the recent implementation of its SAP Business One solution which is already having a positive impact on the way its business is run. The SAP Business One application integrates all core business functions across an entire company, including financials, sales, customer relationship management, inventory, and operations. Unlike many other small business solutions on the market today, SAP Business One is a single application, eliminating the need for separate installations and complex integration of multiple modules.

Small businesses in the UK are beginning to spend more on IT following a period of stagnation, according to SAP. “There was a period a year or so ago when small businesses really stopped their spending, and IT was a big target for cuts,” John Antunes, SME business director at SAP, told Computerworld UK. “We definitely see a change now.” Much of the focus remains on “efficiency”, Antunes said, but IT spending was increasingly seen as a route to achieve this. Small and medium businesses were investing consistently in customer relationship management and business intelligence, as well as financial software, he said.