SAP-Solution: Business ByDesign

Hosting software will bury what "cloud doctor" Lars Dalgaard, SuccessFactors founder and ex-SAP executive, and Jim Hagemann Snabe, ex-Co-CEO of SAP, already suspected in 2012.

No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to smaller news items as well as seemingly more or less important statements from the community. This is the place for SAP-specific press releases that otherwise tend to be overlooked.

With an ever-increasing number of integrated SAP solutions and connected transportation providers, Concur aims to make expense reporting even more convenient. In an exclusive interview with E-3, Product Marketing Director Jens Schneider explains where Concur is headed.

By its very nature, SAP is a European company. Most of the procedures, rules and algorithms of SAP's finance and controlling up to S/4 Finance were invented and developed in Europe.

Coincidence? ERP manufacturer Wilken has been using S/4 as the name for its development platform since 2011. Three years after that, SAP presented its new application suite SAP Business Suite 4 SAP Hana, S/4.

No monthly SAP news should be disregarded. The Short Facts are dedicated to smaller news items as well as seemingly more or less important statements from the community. This is the place for SAP-specific press releases that otherwise tend to be overlooked.

Dakota Indian wisdom says, "If you discover you're riding a dead horse, get off!"

SAP Business ByDesign had a really tough start. First it took forever for the software announced by SAP to become available, then it was positioned with immense advertising effort - as far as I remember, there were even TV and cinema commercials and ads everywhere.