Last week, SAP Business One cracked the 50,000 mark. Clicks? Followers? Customers! What did you think...
Read MoreHow do you become an SAP boss?
Bill McDermott, the CEO of SAP, is a salesman and an American one at that. You can imagine that this means a certain cultural change in a (former) German company to have such a company leader at the top. And it was rumoured that the fresh wind that the American is blowing through the corridors of the Walldorf headquarters is certainly blowing in the faces of some people.
Read MoreUpdate: Current market figures for SAP Business One
The fact that SAP Business One is SAP's best-selling product is still a well-kept but open secret. As always, the number of installations and users has grown strongly again this year.
Read MoreSAP Business One supports aid organisation in Haiti
SAP also donated SAP Business One to the organisation. With this solution, YSB can centrally manage all the finances, customer relations, farming and retail operations of all seven social enterprises through one system.
Read More40,000 SAP Business One customers
SAP recently announced the forty-thousandth customer for SAP Business One. Since the release of the first version of SAP Business One in March 2002, the ERP package for SMEs has become SAP's best-selling business software in terms of customer numbers.
Read MoreSAP acquires eCommerce specialist hybris
„I'm buying myself something – buying is so much fun….‘ You can practically see the two SAP CEOs strolling along, humming this tune as they stuff one company after another into their oversized bag. This time, they've swallowed a specialist who has a considerable reputation in Europe.
Read MoreHANA Enterprise Cloud - Into the cloud at top speed
Anyone who thought that SAP's foray into the cloud with SAP Business By Design was an episode limited to this product will soon have to be proven wrong. It looks like a much larger portfolio of solutions will be made available via the data cloud. And directly from SAP and not (at least not only) from hosting partners, as was previously the model for SAP Business One, which is offered as SAP Business One OnDemand
Read MoreDeveloper training for SAP HANA as a Massive Open Online Course
SAP is now offering the new online course "Introduction to Software Development on SAP HANA" for software developers who want to acquire basic knowledge of the SAP HANA platform and gain an insight into the native programming options of SAP HANA. It complements the extensive range of training and certification courses for SAP HANA that SAP Education offers both online and in training centres worldwide.
Read MoreSAP buys CRM software for sports and entertainment
SAP is becoming ever broader . The latest acquisition, which according to press reports is set to take place, is initially very surprising. The German provider Ticket-Web is to be taken over. Ticket-Web Wildau in Brandenburg operates an online ticketing system called ENTREE-tickets. The portfolio also includes industry solutions for financial accounting and customer management.
Read MoreSAP Business One - Enough material for a blog?
If I think back 5 years to when SAP Business One was launched, the idea at that time was almost absurd, that SAP's smallest and youngest „child“ would reach a stage that would justify a blog.
Just like in real life: Children grow up