How is SAP Business ByDesign a Top-Class Cloud ERP solution?

Today’s fast moving and highly volatile economy offers unprecedented opportunities for businesses, as well as some unique challenges. To succeed and thrive in this highly dynamic environment, businesses need to be inherently agile, free from the dead weight associated with business process inefficiencies, outdated software systems, and stand-alone information silos. 

While traditional ERP systems sufficed in centralizing data and streamlining workflows, what businesses need today is a system that helps them adapt to new and emerging technologies and modern security demands. The SAP Business ByDesign solution, an intelligent cloud-based ERP suite backed by SAP’s global expertise offers seamless integration of business processes, end to end visibility, real-time insights into operations, and so much more...

Read on to know what makes SAP Business ByDesign the best in its class:

1)    A Fully Integrated Solution

Many ERP solutions today are focused on the needs of a particular industry, vertical, or business function. Businesses that use such systems end up buying multiple ERP products to fulfill their needs and end up investing valuable time and resources to build custom integrations between them. In contrast, SAP Business ByDesign is built organically from the ground up, with end-to-end modules for every business Function – from Accounting & Finance, Project Management, Supply Management and Manufacturing to Sales, Marketing, Service and Support. What you get is a fully integrated and consistent solution built with a singular repository of data and an extremely user-friendly interface.

2)   Comprehensive Best Practices

Leveraging SAP’s expertise acquired over 40 years of leadership and innovation, with over 100,000 implementations over scores of industries, SAP Business ByDesign comes equipped with over 35 end-to-end best-practice business scenarios such as Make-to-Stock, Order to Cash, Financial Closing, Fixed Asset Management, etc. Customers can leverage these best practices, and integrate them within their own business processes to greatly improve the efficiency and transparency within their business at no added cost.

3)   World Class Infrastructure

SAP Business ByDesign’s cloud infrastructure is hosted in state-of-the-art Tier-3 and Tier-4 data centers, with the highest compliance standards for data security and disaster recovery.

Thus, customers needn’t purchase any specialized hardware or software, or even invest in an inhouse IT team. They can simply access the system on-demand over the internet, while SAP takes care of maintenance, back-ups, and upgrades.

4)   Rapid Time to Value

The system comes equipped with an integrated and structured implementation project plan and inbuilt e-learning tools, ensuring faster deployment and training on-demand where users can get trained as and when they need it. Customers can take advantage of the starter packages and configuration tools to quickly execute and set up functionalities as and when they need them. All of these features and functions, combined with a rich and intuitive user interface helps increase user adoption so customers realize business value and ROI much faster.

5)   Enhanced Localization

While geographical boundaries are no longer a major constraint for businesses, the complexities of language, currency, and legal requirements are yet to be fully resolved. Although ERP solution providers claim to do localization, most can only offer currency and language support.

SAP goes beyond currency and language to offer Full Functional Localization by adapting to the legal requirements and business best practices of the country. SAP has localized 100+ countries and the list keeps growing.

6)   Enhanced Adaptability

When customers subscribe to Business ByDesign they are given access to the complete solution, and can adopt and phase the implementation of business functions as per their business needs. The solution is highly adaptable as customers can use business configuration tools to self-enable additional functions as and when they need them.

Users can also personalize their work-space, set up custom workflows and approvals, customize documentation, change labels on fields and even add extension fields – all within the system, with no programming needed.

7)   Real-Time Insights

The system is powered by SAP HANA’s in-memory database, which offers the advantage of embedded analytics and real-time actionable insights, which users can promptly act upon to improve their operations. What’s more, the HTML5 interface is device agnostic and can dynamically reconfigure itself to provide a consistent user experience across both desktop or smartphone applications.

For those who can’t do without Excel, the system provides an Excel plug-in, so users can not only export data but also carry out extensive analysis and sync reports without having to go back and forth.

There are over 500 reporting formats and a variety of apps for varied functions and roles and users can choose from a gallery of KPI’s to track performance on the go.

8)   Extendibility

Apart from standard extensions to web service applications, integration with many other third-party on-premise and/or cloud-based applications are available out of the box. As such, SAP Business ByDesign is open-ended for API integrations of all kinds and a dedicated team is constantly building new integrations.

9)   Affordability

SAP Business ByDesign is delivered as a software as a service (SaaS) based subscription, licensed monthly with fees based on the number of users and user types. Customers get the complete product with full functionality and never have to worry about extra expenses for adding new modules or functionalities. Maintenance, back up, recovery and upgrades are all included in this subscription, 24/7 customer support and a knowledge base of educational materials.

Moreover, the the web application server has multi-tenant capabilities, wherein system resources can be shared without compromising on customer data isolation. This reflects on the pricing and makes the product even more cost-effective.

Conclusion

Implemented in over 5000 business entities across 27 industries and 120 countries, the SAP Business ByDesign solution is rapidly gaining worldwide acceptance as a top of the line, scalable cloud ERP solution.

For most mid-sized companies today, the two most important business goals are improving profitability and setting up a foundation for growth. The reason why thousands of companies choose SAP Business ByDesign today is because it has everything they need now and everything they will need in the future to excel on both fronts.