SAP Business One

Integrated Accounting & Business Software SMEs
SAP Business One is designed for small and midsize businesses striving to achieve growth under highly competitive market conditions. By optimising core business processes this is a solution that will form the heart of an organisation's business application strategy. Providing a rapid return on investment SAP Business One is simple yet powerful, quick to implement and intuitive to users. The system is flexible and scalable to support the growth of the organisation and represents an easily justifiable investment.

SAP Business One
A simple but powerful, best-of-breed financial solution, SAP Business One is designed specifically with the small to midsize business in mind. It provides for Financials, Logistics and CRM within a single highly optimised and intuitive interface.

Processes
The key processes provided for within SAP Business One include Financial Accounting & Control, complete management of Business Partners and associated activity, Sales & Distribution, Purchasing, Banking, Stock Control, Bill of Materials & Final Assembly, CRM & Opportunity Management, Service Management & Employee Profiles.

Features
General features within include unique Drag & Relate functionality enabling excellent data navigation from one business process to another. Rules-based workflow and on-line alerts allow personnel to be proactive rather than reactive based on an opportunity arising or something that needs immediate action. All documents are customisable and can include rich graphical content to produce excellent quality business documents. Analytical tools include wizard driven reporting across every facet of the system for operational insight and better decision making.

Customisation
The product provides a level of customisation that is available to the Administrator or Power user (dependant on permissions) so that simple enhancements can be done quickly and cost effectively. These features allow for additional fields to be created within the primary entities such as customers, suppliers or orders for example. For more complex customisation and seamless integration with other applications, developers APIs are made available for ultimate flexibility as explained below.

Integration
SAP Business One boasts an impressive array of integration facilities over and above the standard customisation features discussed above. There are two comprehensive APIs (Application Programmer's Interface), namely the Data API and Ul (User Interface) API. The Data API allows integration with the Data Layer for read/write access to information whilst protecting the business rules. For example, this might be used for another application to post invoices to Business One The Ul API allows integration with the Interface Layer of the solution allowing developers to alter and enhance screens and processes.

About SAP
SAP is the world's third largest software vendor with a reputation for excellence in both software products and services with 12 Million Users worldwide, 64,500 Installations, 1,500 Partners and 23 Industry Solutions SAP employs over 28,900 people in more than 50 countries.