SAP Business One has long been known as cloud-licence model on the market. However, it was reserved for the SAP Business One partners to Software as a Service (SAAS) in their data centres.
However, the offering will now be „complete“. In the near future, the solution Business One Cloud powered by SAPHANA (the somewhat unwieldy name) will also be offered from SAP data centres. SAP announced this at the SAP SME Summit taking place today in New York. The offering will initially be launched in the USA and then in Europe and Asia in 2016.
Almost all of the approximately 50,000 existing customers operate SAP Business One. On Premise, i.e. with purchased licences and on our own servers. This is set to change. The SAP offering will also be made attractive to future cloud customers through additional integrated services. Services such as Backup and restore as well as disaster recovery.
The functions of Business One Cloud do not differ from the on-premise version. The ERP software can be accessed via the browser. Older partner solutions and extensions to the standard can also already be licenced as a cloud service.
SAP's already fast-growing sales in the cloud business, which grew by 116 per cent to 600 million euros in the past 12 months, are now to be further increased by SAP Business One.
For the European market, and even more so for the German market, providing SAP Business One as a cloud service on „local“ servers could hold particular significance. After all, much of the reluctance that is prevalent here Medium-sized companies The scepticism towards cloud-based ERP software is due to concerns about data security. Scepticism has now also been fuelled by the Safe Lab ruling, as the European judgement means that a lot of data can only be processed in Europe.
SAP also has another factor in its hands to make SAP Business One from the cloud and from its own data centre attractive: the price. This has not yet been communicated. ERP Software is used for a very long time, unlike other software systems. 10 years and more are not uncommon. With a monthly rent, medium-sized companies will include such a long period in their profitability calculations.
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