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SAP Business ByDesign, The Most Complete and Adaptable Business Solution - The SAP® Business ByDesign™ solution is the world’s most complete and adaptable on-demand business offering, designed specifically for midsize companies that want to grow profitably. SAP Business ByDesign helps you streamline and optimize every area of your business. The solution provides transparency and control over all your operations, so you can imme diately identify and respond to issues and opportunities – and it’s adaptable, so you can meet new business requirements with minimal time, effort, and cost. And with SAP Business ByDesign, you have SAP managing your software for you, so you can be confident about a successful deployment and predictable operation, with minimal total cost of ownership. Read this SAP Business ByDesign paper.

SAP Business ByDesign - Professional Services Resource Center – As a professional services provider, you face more risk, more complexity, and more competition than ever before. You need to operate globally and deliver locally. You need business processes that allow you to be nimble, execute efficiently, and implement new service models.Read this SAP Business ByDesign paper.

The Impact of SaaS on the Professional Services Industry – Software as a service (SaaS), sometimes referred to as "on-demand software," is becoming an increasingly effective and popular way to implement various business applications. This delivery approach has gained traction in application areas where there is value to "networked" or integrated functions within the application. There have also been large numbers of applications that embed business intelligence capabilities that take advantage of the integrated nature of the information with a SaaS application. Most significantly, there is a growing recognition of the positive aspects of total cost of ownership (TCO) for companywide, enterprise-level applications.Read this SAP Business ByDesign paper.

Operations Excellence in Professional Services Firms – The professional services industry has changed dramatically through the recent and current economic turmoil. Accelerated structural shifts in industries have created an urgency for firms to be more nimble, efficient, and responsive. Bombarded by threats and change, clients focus on a back-to-basics strategy involving simplifying, streamlining, rescaling, and restructuring their operations.Read this SAP Business ByDesign paper.

The New Digital Economy – International leaders face an era of unprecedented change. The financial crisis that ended in 2009 caused a seismic shift that has reshaped the global business landscape. The world economy is now characterized by sluggish growth in the West, a shift in power to the East, value-driven customers and rising risks everywhere. At the same time, the downturn has hastened the adoption of new tools that are transforming businesses and sparking a new wave of wealth creation, particularly in the emerging world. Read this SAP Business ByDesign paper.

Stepping Up to The Cloud: Managing Changes and Migration for Mid-sized Business – Many, especially firms with between 100 and 1,000 employees, tell us that they are reaching the cost-effective limits of their existing software and systems. Careful spending on IT of all types has kept those systems functional; now, growth and opportunity have combined to push those systems to their limits. These executives see Cloud-based IT, including SaaS, as a means to “step up” to a new level of business management capability and function, without tying up valuable investment capital, and without adding to the complexity and cost of their in-house IT environments. Read this SAP Business ByDesign paper.

Moving t o the Cloud: A SaaS Checklist – As the SaaS model continues to grow in both popularity and viability, organizations that haven't yet moved to the cloud may want to evaluate their options for transitioning to the SaaS model in the near future. Prime situations that make SaaS an appropriate fit for organizations include having underutilized applications, running legacy applications that are at the end of life, and owning on-premise applications that are expensive to maintain and are straining to keep up with the company's requirements. Read this SAP Business ByDesign paper.

Digital Megatrends 2015: The Role of Technology in the New Normal Market – This overview provides a summary of the key economic and technology megatrends reshaping the global marketplace. To ensure the rigor of our research, we relied on a blend of quantitative and qualitative analysis. Read this SAP Business ByDesign paper.

Beyond the Hot Air: What's Really in the Cloud – This e-book demystifies the jargon surrounding cloud computing; discusses what cloud solutions mean to small and medium-sized businesses today; and explains what cloud computing is and what it isn't from a business user’s perspective. Read this SAP Business ByDesign paper.