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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAP will limit the scope of its Business ByDesign cloud application suite going forward, focusing its development efforts on a new cloud application platform based on the vendor's HANA in-memory ...

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 ...

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 ...

"We will continue to fine-tune the model," said co-CEO Leo Apotheker, referring to SAP's go-to-market strategy for Business ByDesign, speaking during a press conference at the company's Sapphire user ...

SAP will continue to release new versions of its Business ByDesign cloud ERP suite, despite some recent indications to the contrary, according to the vendor’s head of development. “ByDesign is ...

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 ...