20+1 Reasons why SAP Business ByDesign

is the Best Cloud Business Software Suite

May 26, 2013

AUTHOR

1. True Business Value

With SAP Business ByDesign a customer is

not just replacing old IT infrastructure

Solutions specifically designed to improve

customers business

A pragmatic approach to the solution

Functional end to end business scenarios

and not functional silos

Efficient fixed budget implementation

projects

Leverage best practices to build a set of

standardized consulting services

2. Most Complete

Financial Management Processes

Project Management

Business Analytics

Customer Relationship Management

Supplier Relationship Management

Supply Chain Management

Human Resources

Product Lifecycle Management

Audit and Corporate Governance

Mobile Worker Processes

3. Affordable

SAP Business ByDesign is a True

SaaS (Software as a Service) offered on
monthly license subscription

It allows many companies to finally have

a truly efficient business management
system, that previously could not afford

From less than US$2000 per month for

15 professional users with no other
associated system or maintenance
costs

4. Reduction of Investments

The SAP ByDesign systems are managed

by SAP itself, and provided onDemand, so
you dont have to worry about acquiring
servers, about operation tasks such as
backups, updates installations and so on. The
monthly fee includes everything.

That means you get a dramatic reduction in

your costs to maintain your IT infrastructure.

Not only you don't worry about servers, but

also about costly updates, your business
continuity policies, the additional software
associated with backups, or when the company
grows and you need additional storage or CPU
capacity.

With SAP ByDesign you have all the storage

you need without paying any extras, and the
availability is guaranteed by SLAs.

5. Projects Efficient, Fast and Economical

Pragmatic approach to implementation

projecs with estandardized methodologies
and consultintg services.

You can start with a Go-Live Starter

Package and grow from there

For just 9500 you can have the CRM

Starter Package implemented in about two
weeks

For just 37.500 you can get the ERP

Starter Package that includes the most
critical processes of most businesses.

Not years or months, depending on your

scope, your company can be up and
running in a questions of a few weeks.

6. Flexibility

SAP ByDesign is an integrated business

software solution that allows you to
implement additional components and
business process functionality as your
company business grows or needs them.

You can implement financial

management, or project management,
and later and seamlessly include the
CRM, the Supply Chain Management and
so on.

Being a True SaaS solution, your

company can leverage the immense
benefits provided by public and private
accessible Cloud Services, and use those
that can benefit your company by
exposing it to new markets or making it
more efficient.

7. Improves Collaboration

It allows for an effective

collaboration among employees,
department or company sites.

SAP ByDesign is designed to

provide great improvements and
efficiency communicating and
collaborating with business partners
such as customers and suppliers.

Being a True SaaS solutions, your

company has endless possibilities for
innovation such as the ability for
online interchange of invoicing with
your business partners, credit
checks, social collaboration and
many others.

8. Reporting

SAP Business ByDesign embeds directly

Business Analytics and Intelligence,
hundreds of predefined reports, totally
flexible and easily customizable, and
based on the most advanced SAP InMemory technology.

Significantly increases both the company

business visibility and performance, by
allowing real time business decisions.

By default, the solution includes a set of

Key Performance Indicators and a
cockpit that let the company to know the
status of the business in real time from a
single point of access.

You can easily and without any

programming to define additional reports
and KPIs.

9. Efficiency

Access to many SAP ByDesign without

any additional costs from your
smartphone or tablet devices. ByDesign
applications are available for iOS, Android
and BlackBerry.

Enter anytime and from anywhere your

business opportunities, sales, contact
data, or report project time or project
expenses.

You can access also to the most important

company KPIs and graphical reports from
the ByDesign Mobile Dashboard.

Mobile Employee Self Services,

including travel expenses, authorizations,
leave requests approvals, personal data
updates, and more.

10. Large Applications with Small Cost

Using in your company a solution

such as SAP Busines ByDesign is
positioning your company to a level
of efficiency just as good as much
larger enterprises. With ByDesign
your company can now dance with
the elephants

The Total Cost of Ownership or

TCO of SAP ByDesign Solution is a
fraction of those systems used by
larger corporations, with the same or
better functionality and efficiency,
putting your company in an optimal
competitive position

11. Easy and Free Upgrades

With your monthly subscription

fee, in ByDesign you have
unlimited storage, and when it is
time for a release upgrade, it will
be performed by SAP, but the
best. Free of charge!

With ByDesign you are saving a

huge amount of money in:
Upgrades
Server Upgrades
Software and firmware
upgrades for the servers
Storage
Consulting costs for
upgrades

12. Flexible

SAP ByDesign is extremely flexible

and adaptable to your specific
needs, including very easy yet
powerful tools for personalizing
your screen appearance, screen
fields, reports, forms and more. All
that without the need of any
programming.

And if you require additional or new

functionality, you can use the SAP
ByDesign Studio, a powerful
development environment, that can
be used to design and build the
required new functions..

13. SAP Store

With the SAP Store, is very easy to

obtain new extensions,
enhancements, utilities and even full
add-ons.

Due to the large SAP Solution

Partner Ecosystem, and the online
integration between SAP Business
ByDesign and the SAP Store, your
company can browse, test or
directly buy new solutions
instantly.

Because SAP Store and SAP

ByDesign are both in the cloud, the
updating of the Store is immediate
and automatic from any ByDesign
system.

14. Scalability

SAP provides a availability

commitment with a 99% of SLA
by contract, independently that
your company has 15 or 1000
users.

You only have to take care to have

a reliable network to connect to
the Web, and of course, that your
business innovates and grows.

You can start with the users that you

need and can contract additional
users as your company or business
requires.

15. Easy training

With SAP Business ByDesign you avoid

the need for constant training for new
employees. With the embedded learning
center, and role-based training, it has
never been easier and quicker to enable
and train your new employees or new
system users.

Customers can include their own

instructions and material within the Help
Center of the ByDesign system.

16. User Experience

Usability, Friendliness and user

experience was a key aspect of
the ByDesign inception and
development.

Intuitive, easy and flexible, its a

question of minutes that users
can personalize their own
screens, reports and common
tasks.

SAP Business ByDesign has an

Internet browser based
interface, developed with the
user in mind, using Microsoft
Silverlight.

17. Self Maintained

The SAP ByDesign solution

incorporates mechanisms and
functions for self maintenance, as
well as a comprehensive and
advanced incident management.

With SAP ByDesign the IT

Departments can highly improve
their efficiency by reducing their
operations time, and rather invest in
more added value tasks, taking a
real innovation role within
companies.

18. Open Standards

SAP Business ByDesign was designed

and built for today and for the future,
on top of a open standard architecture,
and providing a PSM (Public Solution
Model) to enable solutions partners to
develop additional functionality, and also
to guarantee the interoperability in a
hybrid cloud environment, meaning
that your cloud applications can interface
and communicate with your on premise
business systems.

19. Security

Security at the highest level.

SAP Business ByDesign is a
save and secure solution, which
is demonstrated by complying
with the following certificates and
security standards:

ISAE 3402
ISO 27001 Certified
SSAE Audit (Statements on
Standards for Attestation
Engagements) 16
TViT Trusted Product
SOA, V2.1 Certified

20. Industry Reach

Currently, SAP Business ByDesign is a

perfect solution for:
-

Professional Services
Manufacturing
Wholesale and Distribution
As the Back Office (ERP) solution
for any other industry sector

It is also an optimal solution for

Subsidiaries of Large Enterprises that
are using SAP ERP.

Additionally, both SAP and the large SAP

Partner Ecosystem are actively
developing new extensions and specific
business processes add-ons for additional
sectors, such as the Chemical Industry,
Hospitality, Real State, and others.

20+1. The Most International Solution

No Other Cloud ERP Solution has the

International Reach of SAP Business
ByDesign.

SAP Business ByDesign is a perfect solution

for companies that need:
-Multi language
-Multi currency
-Multi company
As of release FP4.0, ByDesign is fully
localized for 15 countries, with more coming
in the Roadmap

But it includes virtually settings for most

countries in the world, which can be
implemented as sales subsidiaries in a nonlocalized way.

SAP Business ByDesign is

A fast path and a solid platform for the growth of your company
and your business, with complete business process solutions that
can be implemented in a matter of weeks.

Complete Business
Software Suite

Per User Price

Includes:

SAP Business
ByDesign

Typical Cloud
Competitors

On-Premise
Competition

Complete Software Suite

IT Hardware

Fast Implementation and

Deployment

IT Support
Backup & Recovery
Network Management

True Software
as a Service

Upgrades
Unlimited Data Storage
Maintenance
Multi-Company, Country and Currency

Affordable

Mobility
Analytics Engine

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