SAP Business One Executive Summary

A Quick and Easy Introduction
About SAP
SAP is recognized as the leading provider of business solutions for all types of industries in every major market. With over 12 million users in 120+ countries, 176,000+ installations, and more than 4,500 partners worldwide, SAP is the worlld's largst enterprise business management software company and the third-largest software suppier overall.
For over 30 years, SAP has specialized in what it does best--delivering industry-leading business solutions that enable organizations to respond to day-to-day challenges. That experience and stability is one of the primary reasons why businesses large and small choose SAP.
While SAP solutions were once seen as the sole preserve of large companies, that perception and reality has changed. With annual R&D spending of over $1.2 billion, SAP has reengineered its solution portfolios to meet the specific needs of every size and type of business across multiple industries, resulting in powerful business solutions in use by more than 80,000 small to midsize businesses worldwide.
About SAP Business One
SAP Business One is an affordable, integrated business management solution designed specifically for small to midsize businesses, currently in use by more than 30,000 companies. Now you can utilize a single application to automate processes across your company and deliver an accurate, unified picture of critical up-to-the-minurte business information wherever it is needed. This 360-degree visibility into sales, finance, purchasing, warehouse management and manufacturing, amoung others,enables you to make confident decisions, thus increasig the profitability of your business and achieving new levels of control.
Support on a local level is provided to you by Carolina Cipher, one of more than 2,000 qualified partners located around the world. Some of these partners with industry-specific expertise have seamlessly integrated "Partner Products" into the core SAP Business One package to futher enhance its capabilities. This assures you of the availability of additional functionality should growth or change in your business make it necessary.
SAP Business One is ideally suited for companies with revenue up to $100 million or with up to 250 employees. Implemented in many markets, it is optimized for companies in the retail, wholesale, basic manufacturing (discrete and process) and professional services industries.
