The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

How can collaboration improve sales? That’s the question Rahim Bhatia, SAP StreamWork VP, answered today during a session at SAPPHIRE NOW. Session attendees were looking for a way to help sales teams move from email and voicemail to a more structured and productive way of managing unstructured work and information. (more…)

In addition to presentations and discussion panels, this year SAPPHIRE NOW in Orlando, Florida, also offers a wide range of different microforums. A microforum provides a platform for up to twelve people to discuss a specific business topic within the SME space whereby a moderator hosts the conversation and encourages debate and networking. Some microforums feature SAP customers or partners. (more…)

How does your company enable growth? Are you prepared to see rapid value from your business management software solutions? What are other companies just like yours doing in the on-demand software space? (more…)

At SAPPHIRE NOW 2011 in Orlando, Florida, various experts will talk about the SAP solution portfolio in 20-minute presentations. As the majority of SAP customers are small businesses and midsize companies (SMEs), plenty of the presentations are particularly addressing this important target group by providing the latest information about SAP Business One, SAP Business ByDesign and SAP Business All-in-One, as well as the SAP BusinessObjects solutions for SMEs.

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SAP and its partners will present a broad spectrum of business solutions for small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) at CeBIT 2011. This year, Booth A18 in Hall 5 will prominently feature SAP Business ByDesign, the integrated on-demand solution that offers user-focused innovations such as support for mobile devices, real-time reports and analysis, and customizable user interfaces.

A total of 29 partners will present SAP solutions for small businesses and midsize companies, including SAP Business All-in-One, software for midsize companies with deep industry-specific capabilities, as well as SAP Business One for small companies and SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions. Read the press release.

Together with customers and partners at CeBIT 2011, being held in Hanover, Germany, March 1-5, SAP will present its business software solutions and newest advances in areas such as cloud computing, in-memory computing, mobility and business analytics. The company will present its solutions for small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) in Hall 5, joined by more than 25 partners. Solutions for public administration will be on display in the Public Sector Parc in Hall 9. Read the press release.

Jon Reed shares his observations on SAP’s SME products and his reactions to what he saw at the Influencer Summit. Interviewed by Prasad Akella, VP & Head, SME Marketing. (more…)

Dedicated 100 percent to on-demand solutions, services and go-to-market approach, day two of SAP Influencer Summit is exclusively focused on delivering everything you want to and need to know about the SAP on-demand strategy and solutions. (more…)

It wasn’t a surprise to see this prediction in CIO.com’s top 10 business predictions for 2011: “Real-time analytics will define and drive the real-time organization. As analytics is layered onto the megatrends of cloud, mobile and social, its capacity to create real-time businesses becomes closer than it appears.” In the social arena, Twitter plans to release a real-time analytics dashboard (possibly for free). Tweeters will be able to see what messages have a high number of retweets and conversely which ones don’t catch on.

What’s assumed in the prediction is that analytics goes hand-in-hand with the data on which it is based – and not just that the data enables the analytics. This assumption was made explicit during the SME breakout session at the SAP Influencer Summit.

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