SAP takes over coresystems AG

For old SAP Business One veterans, the announcement is a bang. SAP takes over one of the add-on forges for SAP Business One: Coresystems.

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A real takeover coup

It's almost reminiscent of a coup from the Bundesliga, where a big club manages to sign a star player. Suddenly the coresystems AG website has a bar in the header that reads: "Coresystems is now part of SAP."

Coresystems the innovator for SAP Business One

Coresystems has long been the innovation driver in SAP Business One. With its coresuite, it packed a large portion of flexibility and possibilities into SAP's midmarket ERP.
The country package has long been the quasi-standard for SAP Business One installations.
The Swiss company regularly attracted attention not only through its colourful appearances at trade fairs and sophisticated marketing. Many product ideas were ground-breaking and nevertheless moved further and further away from the original SAP Business One product.

More and more mobile and field service

More and more, the focus was on Mobil Solutions and thus on the area of field service.
Consequently, the SAP press release on the acquisition only mentions the Field Service division. This is certainly the crown jewel and fits perfectly into SAP's cloud strategy.
Consequently, SAP only refers to this showcase technology in its press release.
There it says (freely translated from English):
QUOTE:
" ...By combining Coresystems technology with intelligent IoT solutions (Internet of Things - IoT) and asset networks from SAP, the vision of the intelligent enterprise extends to customer service..."

I wonder what will happen next with the coresuite

So it will be exciting to see what happens next with the coresystems SAP Business One products. Will they be "absorbed" by the standard? There is a lot in the coresuite package that would also be good for the SAP Business One standard.

Update : Coresystems is now available twice

Unfortunately, neither the press release(s) nor the coresystems website revealed that not all of coresystems AG was sold to SAP. This morning (06/02/2018 - 8:00 am) we were informed that only coresystems FSM is affected by the deal. coresystems AG will continue to manage the SAP Business One add-ons under its own management and with a new Management Board.

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