I try not to develop a rooting interest in a software program. That's not why I'm in this game. But it's hard not to root for SAP Business ByDesign, a perennial underdog that absolutely refuses to die ...

At this week's Sapphire conference in Orlando, SAP spoke at length about the status and trajectory of Business by Design, the company's on-demand, software as a service (SaaS) offering. To learn about ...

A few weeks ago, SAP re-sync’d its go-to-market strategies with its various small-to-mid market product lines. This is important as 85% of net-new SAP customers are small-to-medium sized firms. SAP ...

SAP’s on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite Business ByDesign “is not a fantasy,” CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe said during a press conference Monday at the vendor’s Sapphire conference, which ...

The German-based enterprise software maker built its fortunes in the traditional on-premise enterprise software market and has struggled long and hard to move into the world of cloud computing apps ...

SAP retrenches its Business ByDesign efforts but says it maintains full confidence in the SMB ERP offering and associated business model SAP is putting the brakes on the roll-out of Business ByDesign, ...