SAP, Intel Collaborate To Enable Quick IT Value Realisation For SBs

SAP AG will collaborate with Intel to optimise SAP Business One applications on Intel Xeon Processor based systems to enable small businesses to lower cost by achieving faster time to value of their IT investments.

SAP and Intel intend to encourage original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and solution providers to create industry-specific bundles to leverage the results of this collaboration. The first bundle has been introduced for professional services firms through Intel’s OEM Wortmann AG and SAP software solution partner Maringo Computers GmbH.

In the future, Intel and SAP will support additional OEMs and solution providers to provide further offerings in more geographies and targeting different industries.

The collaboration between Intel and SAP is an expansion of the SAP Business One industry solutions programme, which delivers software solutions to small businesses to address their unique business needs. With this expansion, the SAP Business One industry solutions programme provides optimised hardware options that can be leveraged by SAP’s channel partners to create packaged bundles of pre-integrated and pre-tested software, which include industry-specific partner add-on solutions, the core SAP Business One application and additional third party applications as required.

The SAP and Intel collaboration accelerates the time to value for a customer to begin utilising his IT investments and ultimately gives a customer the opportunity of running up to four servers on only one physical instance. This is accomplished due to pre-testing of the SAP Business One solution on Intel Xeon Processor-based systems with Intel Virtualisation Technology.