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 ...

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 ...

Peter Zencke, a member of SAP’s Executive Board and head of R&D, spent the last fours years developing Business ByDesign, a new foundation for SAP's ERP software. I caught up with him during SAP ...

SAP on Monday announced the 2.6 release of its SaaS (software-as-a-service) suite Business ByDesign, which contains a highly anticipated SDK (software development kit) that partners will use to create ...

Enterprise software giant SAP on Wednesday unveiled a midmarket on-demand service, Business ByDesign, putting it in competition with the on-demand offerings of Salesforce.com, NetSuite and archrival ...

I know plenty of SAP watchers who don't take SAP Business ByDesign seriously. Perhaps they think ByDesign's notorious early struggles render the solution irrelevant. Well, think again. Why should we ...

Most successful technology products find an early niche or two — specific pain points the product serves especially well. By proving themselves in these initial beachheads, they gain the traction to ...