Wednesday, December 06, 2006
» SAP going after mid-market with new ERP suite | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
» SAP going after mid-market with new ERP suite Between the Lines ZDNet.com: "In mid-2007, the company is expected to release a new version of its All-in-One suite, based on SAP's mySAP ERP 2005 and NetWeaver platform. Currently in testing with some customers, the new suite, likely to be called All-in-One 2007, will be available as on premises, on demand or in a plug-and-play appliance. SAP will launch the new All-in-One initiative with manufacturing verticals. 'We are taking something proven that exists in the market and seeing if we can put in package and serve risk averse people,' Agassi said.
The goal of new suite is to dramatically reduce what Agassi called a tax–across technology, operations, technology, user training, integration and infrastructure–on implementing and running ERP applications. 'We want to figure out a way to bring down the cost of operations by a factor of 5x to 10x,' Agassi said. A company should be able to set up the software in one week, cost half of what it costs today and have a flexible deployment model (customers can build their own composites on top of it), as well as predetermined roles and an event-centric user experience, Agassi said. '"
The goal of new suite is to dramatically reduce what Agassi called a tax–across technology, operations, technology, user training, integration and infrastructure–on implementing and running ERP applications. 'We want to figure out a way to bring down the cost of operations by a factor of 5x to 10x,' Agassi said. A company should be able to set up the software in one week, cost half of what it costs today and have a flexible deployment model (customers can build their own composites on top of it), as well as predetermined roles and an event-centric user experience, Agassi said. '"
