SAP Business ByDesign (ByD) is a cloud

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software (Cloud ERP) that is sold and operated as

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. It is designed for

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. The software is designed to provide business processes across application areas from financials to human resources with embedded business analytics, mobility, e-learning, and support. SAP Business ByDesign is built on the principles of a service oriented architecture (SOA). Integration between business capabilities is accomplished via messages. The underlying technology stack is a multi-tenancy enabled SAP NetWeaver stack, leveraging SAP's in-memory HANA database. SAP Business ByDesign is used by almost 10.000 companies in more than 140 countries and supports 41 languages (13 standard and 28 partner translated, including simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Hebrew). It is localized for 65 countries (standard localizations, pre-localizations and partner localizations). In addition customers and partners can create custom country and language versions using the Localization and Language Toolkit provided by SAP. Examples for the 72 localizations by customers or partners are

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and

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Business areas and scenarios

SAP Business ByDesign processes are grouped by application areas interlinked by so-called business scenarios. Scenarios provide business processes which span across companies, partners, departments and its employees. The main application areas and core business scenarios are: *

Financial management Financial management is the business function concerned with profitability, expenses, cash and credit, so that the "organization may have the means to carry out its objective as satisfactorily as possible;" the latter often defined as maximizi ...

(FIN): Cash and Liquidity Management, Financial Closing, Fixed Asset Management *

Customer relationship management Customer relationship management (CRM) is a process in which a business or other organization administers its interactions with customers, typically using data analysis to study large amounts of information. CRM systems compile data from a r ...

(CRM): Marketing to

Opportunity Opportunity may refer to: Places * Opportunity, Montana, an unincorporated community, United States * Opportunity, Nebraska, an unincorporated community, United States * Opportunity, Washington, a former census-designated place, United States * ...

, Field Service and Repair, Order to cash (projects, standard service, materials) * Project management and professional service automation (PSA / PRO): Project Management * Supplier relationship management and procurement (SRM): Procure to pay (stock and non stock) *

Supply chain management In commerce, supply chain management (SCM) is the management of the flow of goods and services including all processes that transform raw materials into final products between businesses and locations. This can include the movement and sto ...

(SCM): Demand Planning, Strategic sourcing, Make to stock, Physical Inventory Management, *

Human resources management Humans (''Homo sapiens'') are the most abundant and widespread species of primate, characterized by bipedalism and exceptional cognitive skills due to a large and complex brain. This has enabled the development of advanced tools, culture, an ...

(HRM): Expense Reimbursement, Resource Management, Time and Labor Management *

Business analytics Business analytics (BA) refers to the skills, technologies, and practices for continuous iterative exploration and investigation of past business performance to gain insight and drive business planning. Business analytics focuses on developing n ...

(BA or BI) *Executive support and compliance management.

History

SAP announced SAP Business ByDesign on 19 September 2007 during an event in New York. It was previously known under the code name "A1S". Since its initial and general available release in 2007 (so-called feature pack 1.2) it has been enhanced in quarterly releases.

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Business areas and scenarios

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