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Social Responsibility's Strategic Benefits
December 15, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Ed Granger-Happ, CIO of Save the Children, for a discussion of how creating an organization that is socially responsible improves staffing, retention, leadership development and overall corporate health.
Working With and Communicating to Your Board of Directors
January 13, 2009, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM US/Eastern (GMT-5)
CIO panelists who will share tips and experiences working with their boards: Twila Day of SYSCO; Jeff O'Hare, West Corp.; Marc West, formerly with H&R Block.
IT's Role in Growing Mid-Market Companies
January 14, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET (GMT-5)
Mid-market Council members will share their companies' stories and challenges in driving or coping with growth. Panelists represent Veterinary Pet Insurance, Medicis Pharmaceutical, and Intrax Cultural Exchange.
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SAP Unveils Small-Business ERP Software Suite
Business ByDesign aimed at businesses with 100 to 500 workers.
October 25, 2007 — IDG News Service — After blanketing the Fortune 1000 with its ERP software, SAP is looking for new worlds to conquer—and believes it’s found one in the small- to mid-market businesses that long have shied away from ERP due to its cost and complexity.
SAP has christened its new suite of hosted ERP software for the SMB SAP Business ByDesign and says the software will be available initially in the U.S. and Germany, with the U.K., France and China to follow soon after.
SAP CEO Henning Kagermann presented the first demonstration of Business ByDesign in New York last September, modestly calling it “the most important announcement I have made in my career.”
According to Kagermann, SAP Business ByDesign aims to offer the whole range of ERP capabilities—from manufacturing to accounting to marketing to HR—in a service affordable and simple enough for use by businesses with 100 to 500 employees.
Analysts say SAP’s challenge will be to offer a product that’s easy for companies to configure but also meets their individual needs.
Businesses’ two main concerns about hosted services, especially ERP, have been security of data and reliability of service, says Bo Lykkegaard, a research manager with IDC (a sister company of CIO). But those concerns are lessening, he says, and hosted services for CRM and HR will soon be mainstream.
By the way, SAP will not offer a way for customers to migrate from its software to Business ByDesign, saying the service is “not intended to replace any other SAP solution.”
Other stories by James Niccolai Copyright © 2008 IDG News Service. All rights reserved. IDG News Service is a trademark of International Data Group, Inc.
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