SAP Releases New Version of SAP Business ByDesign

August 2, 2010 · Filed Under Business Software, Productivity Software, Software News · Comment 

Feature Pack 2.5 for SAP Business ByDesign Solution Generally Available; Innovative Starter Packages Speed On-Demand Suite Adoption

SAP AG announced the general availability of the feature pack 2.5 for the SAP Business ByDesign solution beginning July 30, 2010. This comprehensive, fully integrated on-demand business management suite is now available in China, France, Germany, India, the United Kingdom and the United States. 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, customizable rich user interface and increased flexibility.

The new feature pack provides the mature customer 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 customer- and partner-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.

Partners continue to be a core part of the go-to-market strategy for SAP Business ByDesign, and solution partners as well as solution resellers leverage the new business model and opportunities to the advantage of customers. Read more

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Magic Software announces iBOLT integration for Microsoft SharePoint 2010

May 12, 2010 · Filed Under Business Software, Software News · Comment 

Latest iBOLT integration platform also includes enhanced connectors for Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Salesforce.com and HL7

Magic Software announced that the latest version of its iBOLT business integration suite includes a Microsoft SharePoint connector for fast and code-free integration between the newest version of Microsoft’s corporate portal – released today, and other enterprise applications.

With dozens of specialized connectors, iBOLT allows organizations to rapidly integrate diverse applications and create continuous business processes. Utilizing a code-free approach, iBOLT also eliminates the need for complex point-to-point interfacing.

The latest iBOLT 3.2 release comes with a number of new or improved connectors for Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Salesforce.com and HL7. Read more

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Wordfast Pro 2.3 for Windows

March 17, 2010 · Filed Under Business Software, Productivity Software, Software News, Utilities and Operating Systems · Comment 

Wordfast officially releases Wordfast Pro 2.3 for Windows, with over 100 new features and improvements that address the needs of corporations, language service providers, and individual translators. Mac and Linux versions will follow shortly.

With over 30,000 licenses in active use, Wordfast is the second most widely used translation memory tool in existence and the world’s leading platform-independent translation-related technology.

Wordfast Pro 2.3 New Features:
– Support for PDF files
– Support for MIF files
– Support for TTX files
– Wordfast Aligner(TM) BETA
– Built-In TM administration module
– Machine Translation integration
– User-Defined segmentation
– MS Office Spellchecker option
– Enhanced Search functionality in source and target languages
– Terminology Search

  • To download Wordfast Pro 2.3: http://www.wordfast.com/store_download.html
  • For more information on how existing Wordfast Classic licensees can receive Wordfast Pro for free: http://www.wordfast.com/support_relicensewfp.html
  • Wordfast also offers a beta version of the world’s most advanced free web-based TM tool, featuring complete privacy and confidentiality:http://www.freetm.com/

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Introducing the Fraud Prevention Suite to combat fraud in international eCommerce

March 9, 2010 · Filed Under Business Software, Internet Software, Security Software, Software News · Comment 

Wirecard AG Presents a Further Development in the Field of Risk Management

Munich-based Wirecard AG introduces the Fraud Prevention Suite, a further development within the scope of its risk management product line. By means of a refined analytics system, fraud patterns automatically identified in the field of electronic online payments processing are now directly included in bodies of rules to combat fraud in international eCommerce.

The Fraud Prevention Suite provides merchants with optimum fraud detection facilities, combined with a simultaneous minimization of the number of transactions erroneously categorized as being suspected of fraud. This is because portfolio data is used to optimize sets of rules by means of integrated simulation functions to assess the relationship between identified cases of fraud to rejected, regular transactions.

Not only are merchants operating with an international reach exposed to fraud attempts more frequently; they also have to contend with a larger variety of fraud patterns than merchants trading within a single country. Particularly as far as credit card processing on a global scale is concerned, the challenge is to be able to identify fraud better and faster and to take preventive steps to counteract fraud.

“Online fraud is becoming increasingly sophisticated internationally,” says Heiner Kallweit, Head of Product Line Risk & Fraud Prevention at Wirecard AG. “On the basis of our many years’ experience, in combination with new software developed we have created a solution which, based on extensive possibilities of analyzing inventory data, identifies online fraud before damage or loss can occur,” adding: “In this context, the behavior patterns differ completely from one industry segment to another, making it necessary for industry-specific parameters of relevance relating to fraud to be included in fraud detection as such. In the case of airlines, for instance, these are the route, method of payment, flight class or advance booking periods. The system even identifies complex patterns to distinguish genuine transactions from fraudulent ones.”

Wirecard AG has adjusted its new Fraud Prevention Suite solution to the requirements of the core industries of eCommerce: consumer goods, airlines/tourism and digital goods.

The range on offer from technology services provider Wirecard comprises individually tailored, industry- and customer-specific payment and risk management systems, ranging from special BSP solutions for airlines, tele-shopping and Internet trading all the way through to PoS terminal solutions in the stationary segment. The services of the online-oriented Wirecard Bank complement and extend the array of products and services for business customers to include credit card acceptance agreements (acquiring), banking services and innovative prepaid card products.

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SAP Business One 8.8 beckons new era of software for small businesses

March 2, 2010 · Filed Under Business Software, Software News · Comment 

New Release of SAP(R) Business One Application Features Enhanced User Interface, Embedded Analytics, Business Network Connectivity

SAP AG announced a new release of the SAP® Business One application that accelerates time-to-value, facilitates business adaptability and increases ease-of-use and affordability based on strong co-innovation with SAP partners for small and midsize companies. With thousands of customers in over 80 countries, SAP Business One is designed to enable small business owners to effectively manage their entire business and future growth. The new 8.8 release of SAP Business One includes new innovations and advancements in the areas of functionality, performance and user experience that will improve customers’ usability and productivity. For example, with embedded analytics from the SAP® Business Objects(TM) portfolio, customers can increase transparency of business operations and improve decision-making. The new release also offers enhanced business network connectivity that enables customers’ to quickly and affordably integrate their business partners in the ecosystems, local subsidiaries or branch offices with headquarters running the enterprise resource planning (ERP) application SAP® ERP. The announcement was made at the CeBIT trade fair, being held in Hannover, Germany, March 2-6.

SAP Business One 8.8 has been in ramp-up since August 2009 and is planned to be generally available at the end of April 2010. Already, more than 150 customers are experiencing the benefits of the new release, including C&T Network Systems (Germany), Crayola (Costa Rica), Lifepark (Germany), Glowmac Lighting Pvt. Ltd (India), Interadapt Sistemas (Brazil), Orga-Buro (France), Reynolds Logistics (UK), Schulp Vruchtensappen (Netherlands), Skytek Telecomunicazioni Srl (Italy), Solis Import (Panama), SPM Instruments (USA) and Vet’s Sheet Metal Ltd (Canada).

“We produce optically unusual and very individual bikes, which we sell mainly through 19 online shops with integration to SAP Business One and a network of resellers throughout Europe; a delivery time of 12 days from order to delivery is very important,” said Manuel Ostner, managing director, PG Trade & Sales GmbH. “SAP Business One was known to us as one of the best products for these requirements. Since its introduction, we have all orders and inventory in one single system, so we are informed in time about missing parts and have no loss of production anymore. SAP Business One includes everything we need. We can also process new ideas right away.”

The new SAP Business One release accommodates the continuous demands of the changing market by including an upgrade wizard that is simple and straightforward, reducing customer’s downtime to a minimum. In addition, the new release integrates to partner applications and business services. Based on the flexible business platform of SAP Business One, small businesses can quickly start with core business management applications and add additional capabilities over time with easy-to-consume business applications from SAP partners. In the future, customers will be able to more easily extend their solutions with cloud-based applications, mash-ups and mobile integration.

“Innovative solutions whet the appetite, especially if you get benefits at the same time,” said German Mayr, managing director, Part Business Solutions GmbH. “During a presentation of SAP Business One we already saw the iPhone integration with SAP Business One. This was ultimately the impetus for the switch to the new version. While others may have taken the last days of last year as leisure time, PART used the time to migrate our operations to SAP Business One 8.8. The upgrade went smoothly in a very short time. Meanwhile, not only are our ERP processes running on the new platform, but we have also integrated the archive system. It saves time and money when your software helps drive business decisions — and on top of that, is easy to use.”

Additional enhancements in the latest release of SAP Business One include:

  • Universal code base for 40 countries, supporting different time zones and helping to ensure compliance with standard legal requirements;
  • Data archiving to reduce operational cost in growing businesses;
  • A remote support platform for SAP Business One, with embedded product life-cycle support that assists customers and partners in proactive issue diagnostics and resolution and system reliability;
  • DATEV interface for payroll accounting in Germany;
  • Integration to on-demand Web services such as eShops, based on country availability, to reach out to new market segments.

SAP partners are finding that the new release of SAP Business One is making it easier to service their vast array of clients and allowing solution partners to rapidly extend the core solution to meet unique, industry-specific processes and changing needs. SAP Business One 8.8 is able to accommodate customers’ unique needs, whether for brick and mortar, online operations or hybrid business models that need powerful e-commerce connectivity as well as more traditional business management proficiency. In addition, the solution can be quickly implemented. Among partners participating in the ramp-up were Asecom, Vision33, SAND Technologies Limited, and Navigator Business Solutions. SAP and its partners intend to deliver additional innovations for SAP Business One throughout 2010, such as integrated Web 2.0 capabilities and social networking, mobile integration, extended collaboration and integration of cloud-based applications.

“As a SAP Business One solution partner we drive strong co-innovation with SAP to accelerate product innovation for the benefit of customers,” said Manuel Grenacher, CEO, coresystems ag. “SAP has an extremely flexible, sustainable development platform and quality standards to deliver added-value applications for customers. This is a fantastic opportunity to grow our own business in a volume market.”

“The innovations to SAP Business One stand to revolutionize the way small businesses owners manage their businesses,” said Robert Viehmann, head of SAP Business One development worldwide. “With SAP Business One 8.8, we enter into a new era of business software for small enterprises. Small businesses must become empowered to adapt their business models rapidly with a flexible IT platform that adapts to business changes instantaneously. Today, business software allows company owners and managers to accelerate decision making based on true real time insight. Additionally, business software should be more consumable to provide ease of use for users living in today’s web world.”

Viehmann speaks about the new features within the SAP Business One 8.8 application in the video accessible here. To read how the new release of SAP Business One is making it easier for SAP partners to service their vast array of clients, please see “Addendum: SAP® Business One 8.8 Beckons New Era of Software for Small Businesses.” To see the innovations to SAP Business One 8.8 at CeBIT, visit the SAP SME booth A4 in hall 5; the SAP World Tour in halls 19 and 20; and the OS XP Pavilion. SAP partners at CeBIT will also be exhibiting the new release.

Next Major Event: SAPPHIRE® 2010

SAPPHIRE® 2010, SAP’s premier customer conference and networking event, will be held simultaneously in Orlando, Florida, and Frankfurt, Germany, May 17-19, 2010. This year, SAP will utilize several new, unique, and compelling experiences online and at the events to share SAP insights and innovations, and connect customers and partners around the world. As in past years, SAPPHIRE offers the opportunity to meet top SAP customers, partners and executives for in depth discussions, and to experience the latest solutions being offered for today’s business needs. For more information about the Orlando show, visit www.sapandasug.com; for the Frankfurt event, visit www.sap.com/sapphire/emea.

SAP® Business One is a single solution that integrates the entire business across financials, sales, customer relationships, inventory and operations. It is best-fit for small businesses that have outgrown their accounting-only systems and are looking to streamline business operations with an integrated, on-premise solution. With SAP Business One, small businesses can streamline end-to-end operations, get instant and complete information and accelerate profitable growth. SAP Business One offers over 550 add-on solutions, many industry-specific, that can extend the core functionalities of SAP Business One to meet specific business processes and fast-changing needs. Since 2007 SAP has doubled its SAP Business One customer base. Available in over 80 countries and in 26 different languages, SAP Business One is sold and supported through the extensive network of authorized SAP channel partners, and is trusted by thousands of customers worldwide. Additional information is available at www.sap.com/smallbusiness.

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