SAP AG announced the availability of the feature pack 2.5 for the SAP Business ByDesign solution. SAP also announced the introduction of three new predefined starter packages that provide customers a compelling starting point for their adoption of the complete SAP Business ByDesign solution.
General Availability of Feature Pack 2.5 for SAP Business ByDesign
The general availability of the feature pack 2.5 for SAP Business ByDesign delivers significant customer-centric innovations including real-time, in-memory analytics, support for mobile devices, customisable rich user interface and increased flexibility.
The new feature pack provides the mature lifecycle management capabilities necessary to support a large volume rollout and reduce the cost of delivery. In addition to being fully enabled to provide multi-tenancy, it has been engineered for specific business extensions, and provides flexibility to easily make changes to the default user interface, report and forms. It also leverages the proven life cycle management system from SAP, protecting all changes during upgrades.
Available for as few as 10 users, the three starter packages currently available include:
- Customer relationship management (CRM) starter package - The CRM starter package provides with best business practices for sales force automation (SFA), enabling them to efficiently generate leads, manage all stages of the sales process and close deals, while laying the foundation to expand to the entire order-to-cash process.
- Enterprise resource planning (ERP) starter package - The ERP starter package provides that have outgrown accounting-only systems with the integrated financials, accounting and analytics capabilities needed to manage the next stage of growth.
- Professional service provider (PSP) starter package - The PSP starter package is designed to give small businesses and midsize professional services firms affordable access to the world-class business process management capabilities they need to not only manage their businesses end to end, but also to level the playing field against well-capitalised competitors.
“With the general availability of feature pack 2.5 we have achieved a major milestone,” said Peter Lorenz, executive vice president, SME solutions, and corporate officer, SAP.
“By providing this new release, we deliver substantial innovation to support our customers’ business everyday. The on-demand services for SAP Business ByDesign are operated on the most modern cloud infrastructure and allow for true volume business. We also expect the new starter packages to enable our customers to quickly adopt the services and realise immediate results on their path to an integrated on-demand suite.”


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