Introducing the SAP Business One Starter Package - A great start to help you to streamline your Small Business for success

1. Introducing the SAP Business One Starter Package
A Great Start to Help You to Streamline Your Small Businesses
Emmanuel Eliason
President & CEO
Eliason Consulting Group

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Most small businesses strive for the same thing
An easy to follow roadmap to better profitability and growth

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That journey is not without roadblocks
Businesses want to…
 Respond to market needs faster
 Improve profits and margins
 Use better tools and technology
 Focus more on what’s important
But find it hard to…
 Get the information when needed
 Gain efficiency with broken
processes
 Keep multiple systems working
together
 Not be distracted by day-to-day
activities
“The main challenge is actually having the time and the ability to focus on my
business. I spend most of my day babysitting instead of driving my business.”
A small business owner

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Today’s business environment demands a new breed of
solutions
What small businesses have
 Manual processes
 Many point solutions
 Limited functionality
 Hard to work together
 Difficult to change
 Costly to maintain
What small businesses want
 Automated
 Comprehensive
 Instant, real-time
 Intuitive
 Adaptable
 Easy to maintain

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SAP Business One starter package
Best fit
 For small businesses that either struggle with too many spreadsheets,
have outgrown their accounting centric application or are limited by
standalone business software
What it offers
 Simplicity – intuitive, affordable, and fast to implement with low TCO
 Comprehensive functionality – includes financials, sales, CRM,
light production, warehousing, purchasing, and operations
 Mobility – Via downloadable applications for the iPad, iPhone and
Wifi enabled iPod Touch
Quick facts
 40 country-specific versions in 25 languages; customers in 90+ countries
 Exclusively sold via more than 1,100 channel partners (820 VARs, 300 SSPs)

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Designed to work with the way you do business
Uniform data across all your systems
 Integrate all major critical business functions
 Eliminate duplicates and redundancies
 Alerts help you focus on the important
Strengthen customer relationships and loyalty
 Integrated customer relationship management
 Complete 360-degree view of your customers
Make better, more informed decisions
 A single source for all business information
 Centralized management of reports and layouts enhances user
productivity
 Integrated reporting based on industry standard SAP Crystal Reports
family of offerings

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Adapts to the unique needs of your business
Configure
 Fully documented rapid deployment approach
 Do it yourself, engage a trained, authorized partner to implement
for you or mix and match
Fixed scope with unlimited potential
 Basic accounting, financials, sales, customer relationship
management, purchasing, and inventory processes
 Maximum 5 users with a simple path to the full SAP Business One
solution
Integrated and mobile
 Standard integration with productivity tools such as Microsoft Office,
Outlook
 SAP Business One mobile app for iPhone available for mobile access
to key business data

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Provides rapid time-to-value without disrupting your
business
Rapid implementation
 Accelerated implementation methodology enables customers
to go live in as little as 3 – 10 days
 Eliminates surprises and overruns in time or budget
 Enables straightforward migrations and integration, few interruptions,
and low user stress
Minimal disruption
 Provides remote support platform for proactive maintenance
to optimize system performance
 Intuitive design minimizes employee training and cost

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Comes standard with industry leader SAP Crystal Reports
and pre-built dashboards
Design, modify and run reports
 Fully integrated, intuitive Crystal
Reports provides compelling reporting
functionality and instant access to
business critical information
 Create Engaging Dashboards
 SAP Crystal Dashboard Design
enables any business user to create
powerful visualizations and
dashboards

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Mobile capabilities in SAP Business One starter package
You can refer to built-in SAP Crystal Reports that present key information about
your business
You can add your own customized reports to the application, and easily share them
via e-mail

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Starter package vs. full SAP Business One
customer scenarios
A typical Starter Package customer
 Is satisfied with the limited functional
scope of the starter package
 Requires no more than five users
 Is in wholesale distribution, ‘high value
item’ retail, services
 Has standardized, light processes
requiring no modification or extension of
the SAP Business One starter package
A typical SAP Business One customer
 Requires advanced features in
accounting, logistics, production, and
others
 Requires any number of users
 Is in wholesale distribution, retail,
services, or another industry
 May have more complex processes
either requiring some modifications, add-
on developments, or a partner add-on
 Might be a subsidiary of a large account

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Starter package vs. full SAP Business One
Maximum users Five * Unlimited
Features
Limited functional scope of SAP Business One
including functionality for basic accounting and finance,
sales and customer relationship management,
purchasing and supplier relationship management,
inventory and distribution, reporting, and administration
Full functional scope including: Approval procedures, cost
accounting, budget management, fixed assets, pick and pack,
material requirements planning, SAP Business One Software
Development Kit, subsidiary integration
Implementation
time range
Depending on the scope of the project, 3 to10 days,
including basic data import from legacy software and
basic configuration
2 to 8 weeks
Actual Release
8.81 release, patch 05, May 2011; available to all SAP
Business One partners
8.81 release April 2011, available to all SAP Business One
partners
Availability
Available for all countries and languages supported by
SA P Business One, with prepackaged, fixed-scope
implementation provided for specific Countries
Available in 40 countries and 20 languages
Industry relevance
Focused on wholesale distribution, high-value-item
retail, and light professional services industries
Focused on automotive; chemicals; consumer products;
engineering, construction, and operations; healthcare; higher
education and research; high-tech; industrial machinery and
components; media; mill products; professional services;
retail; and wholesale distribution industries
Partner network
All channel partners; however, some are more active
with this offering
More than 1,150 channel partners; providing more than 550
add-on solutions, many industry specific
Customer support SA P partners certified to deliver support SA P partners certified to deliver support

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Three easy steps to grow to full SAP Business One
Step 1
Call your partner to
order your upgrade
 Upgrade existing
licenses to new licenses
 Choose additional
license types and
database (if required)
 Upgrade hardware
(if required)
Step 2
Enter your new license
keys to unlock
additional features and
users
 Update license server
with new keys
 Start using new
functionality
Step 3
Continue to grow your
business
 Implement additional
industry solutions
 Integrate with business
networks

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Protect your investment with a maintenance contract!
Automating and running business management systems is more than buying a
software package and implementing it. The complete solution also includes:
New capabilities to
fit more needs
Legal changes and
compliancy
Up-to-date
technology
Reactive and
Proactive problem
resolution
Protect
your
investment!

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Delivered by experienced partners near you
Award winning
PartnerEdge Channel
Program
820 reseller partners
Dedicated partner
enablement tools and
programs
300+ software solution
partners

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Further information
SAP Public Web
http://www.sap.com/sme
SAP Business One Customer Portal (log-on
required)
https://service.sap.com/smb/sbocustomer
Documentation on SAP Help Portal
http://help.sap.com (SAP Business One)
User Groups
http://www.scn.sap.com (SAP Community Network)
http://www.asug.com
http://www.sap.com/communities/usergroups.epx
Contact Us
Your SAP Extended Business Partner
Eliason Consulting Group
Tel: 303.586.3346
Email: info@eliasonconsulting.com
Web: www.eliasonconsulting.com

17. Thank You!
Eliason Consulting Group
Tel: 303.586.3346
Email: info@eliasonconsulting.com
Web: www.eliasonconsulting.com