SAP does provide business solutions for very large organisations, but SAP Business One has been specifically designed and developed to meet the needs and the budget of small to medium sized businesses.

SAP Business One is a standard off-the-shelf “ERP” software package that brings together your accounting/finance, sales, purchasing, manufacturing and service operations, so that you can have visibility and control of every function in your business – using one single integrated system.

There are no technical restrictions as to how small or large a customer must be to use SAP Business One. Typically it is the functionality required by the company that will determine the suitability of SAP Business One. The underlying database is Microsoft SQL Server, which is one the most robust and scalable database platforms available. A key differentiator of SAP Business One is it sheer flexibility which enables it to meet the changing demands of a growing organisation without the need for bespoke programming.

SAP has historically invested heavily and continues to invest in Business One. There are now in excess of 30,000 installations worldwide and this is growing at a rate of 30-35% year on year, which makes SAP Business One key to SAP’s future business strategy. SAP publishes a roadmap in the public domain which describes their product development plans for SAP Business One for several years ahead. We are happy to provide you with a copy of the Roadmap for 2011-2014 at your request.

Yes, there are various applications (apps) available for the iPhone and iPad, and devices such as Blackberry, Android and Windows phones. These have been designed specifically for SAP Business One and so you can interact with your system whilst out of the office.

Any standard desktop PC or laptop can be used, as long as it is running Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 operating systems. The desktop should be connected to a central server by a local area network or a wide area network (i.e. internet/VPN). Ideally, each workstation will need 2GB of memory and 1GB of free disk space. Please contact us for detailed specifications.

SAP Business One is sold per named user. The total price of your system will depend on how many users you have and the type of licence required by each user (we can help you work it out). The pricing is transparent and easy to understand and we’re happy to provide these details as requested.

Yes, SAP offer finance packages which allows you to split the cost of the whole system (software, hardware and implementation services) into affordable monthly payments.

Contact us and we’ll be more than happy to help.