SAP Business By Design

Designed specifically for midsize companies that want to grow profitably, the SAP® Business ByDesign™ Solution is the world’s most complete and adaptable on-demand business offering.

SAP Business ByDesign Overview

Software as Agile as your Business

Designed specifically for midsize companies that want to grow profitably, the SAP® Business ByDesign™ Solution is the world’s most complete and adaptable on-demand business offering. Unlike any other on-demand business software, SAP Business ByDesign delivers everything you need to succeed. By providing you with transparency and control over your entire business, the solution empowers you to respond immediately to issues and opportunities. The ability to adapt rapidly and cost-effectively to changing business needs means you can meet new business requirements with a minimum of time, effort, and cost. And with an entirely new service model based on the most comprehensive set of built-in IT services and support, you can be assured of a successful deployment and predictable operations - with minimal cost of ownership.

Transcending the Limitations of your Software

Sustained, profitable growth. Customer satisfaction. Ongoing competitive advantage. As a fast-growing company, you have the same objectives as any business. But you’re probably finding it challenging to build in the control you need to achieve these goals without sacrificing your IT budget – especially as you focus on the following:

• Changing and growing
  As part of a dynamic business environment, your organization needs to quickly and cost effectively adapt and expand its business processes. This requires agility across all areas of your business.
• Thriving in a global network
  As you strive to access broader markets and gain the benefit of local and global sourcing, you need to collaborate efficiently – no matter where your employees, partners, and customers reside.
• Competing effectively
  While your smaller rivals are under-cutting you to close business deals, your larger competitors are exploiting economies of scale to offer similar products and services at a lower price. To cope with this competition on all sides, you need to accelerate innovation across all business areas.
• Driving costs down
  Factors such as globalization, competition, and potential consolidation force your company to continuously optimise costs. You may have responded by using information technology to integrate your business processes and deliver transparency and visibility of costs in all areas – but these solutions have likely fallen short.

Employees at the Centre

In the center of these challenges are your employees – the people who must work together to address these issues and achieve your business objectives. Most likely, they’re working in an environment characterized by siloed and disconnected departments, business processes, data, and applications. And more importantly, they’re trying to be productive and innovative while using a variety of tools – including business applications and office solutions – that are not integrated or designed to the unique roles of each employee.

Working under such conditions causes a ripple effect throughout your organisation, hindering your business in a number of ways. Your employees and you are unable to manage operations efficiently and gain full control over all business processes. And when you try to gain control, it’s often at the risk of slowing down your business. without enterprise-wide visibility across all business processes and activities, your employees struggle to make informed decisions. Under these conditions, it is a challenge to respond swiftly to changing marketplace requirements, maximize new opportunities, and drive co-innovation across your extended enterprise.

As you’ve discovered, the solutions and tools you’re using only partially address your needs. In fact, just like many growing companies, you have traditionally been forced to trade off ease of change and agility against affordability when choosing a business software solution that solves these challenges. face it – your business has outgrown the limitations of your current IT landscape. It’s no wonder that you are seeking business software that offers simplicity, automation, and flexibility for your business processes. These are the features that allow you to optimize your operations across all business areas while driving IT costs down.

For more information see the web site of our SAP integration services subsidiary, Chelford SAP Solutions.