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by David R. Brousell, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 5:32:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | In its long-awaited entrance into the mid-market on-demand software business, the enterprise applications leader unveils SAP Business ByDesign. |
| Keywords: | Business ByDesign, Business By Design
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NEW YORK — Saying that a "new era" has begun, SAP AG today formally introduced what it called a "first edition" of an on-demand software product for mid-market companies that is priced at $149 per user. The enterprise applications market leader, which has been working on the product for four years but talking publicly about it only since December 2006 under the code name A1S, calls the new product SAP Business ByDesign. SAP has committed to spending up to €400 million to launch the product in what it says is a new market segment for it: organizations with 100 to 500 employees. SAP Business ByDesign covers eight major functional areas — financial, customer relationship, human resources, supply chain, supplier relationship, project, compliance management, and executive management support — that are based on SAP's enterprise service-oriented architecture and NetWeaver technology. The monthly $149 per user cost includes software, infrastructure, services, and support, with a minimum of 25 licensed users per customer. For those requiring only limited access to the software — what SAP termed "efficiency" users — the product is priced at $54 per month for five users. [Click to continue] |
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