SAP Business ByDesign: comprehensive report
June 5, 2008
Pimp post so switch off if you don’t like that sort of thing.
Along with Brian Sommer, I’ve had my head down working on a report about SAP Business ByDesign. Hence the sporadic posting. In its current iteration (we’re on version 6) the report runs about 20 pages but will probably go up a few once we’ve added in some illustrations and tweaked the formatting.
We’re pleased with what we’ve achieved and believe it will represent the first reasonably ‘deep dive’ into a product that when you first see it is likely to scare the pants off most people. (see low-res screenshot above) The truth is it doesn’t have to be scary but it does require a very different way of looking at your ‘world.’ Rather than let the cat out the bag, I’ll finish this post with the blurb we’re putting out:
The Comprehensive SAP Business ByDesign Report
It takes a comprehensive report to cover a comprehensive product suite like SAP’s Business ByDesign. This is a product suite that involved the efforts of thousands of developers and took approximately five years to bring to market. While much has been written about Business ByDesign, this report succinctly summarizes it all in a compact 20-page analysis. We examine subjects such as:
· The Target Buyer for Business ByDesign – Do you have what it takes to be a Business ByDesign user?
· Process Design vs. Functional Silos – This may be the single most important choice you make in buying a SMB software solution
· Product Review – A walkthrough of the 8 major functional components of Business ByDesign along with our requests for needed improvements in each area
· Vertical Assessment – How well does Business ByDesign serve your industry?
· Product Enhancements – Where should/will SAP expend its future efforts? What role will channel partners play?
· Technical Enhancements – Is the software delivering the performance that both you and SAP demand now?
· Competitive Assessment – How does this solution stack up against Workday, NetSuite and other on-demand ERP offerings?
· Author Summaries – See what our two report authors think. These are two of the software industries most visible and long-lived pundits.
The report is out for fact checking and will come out under Brian’s TechVentive brand. We’re hoping it will be available for delivery by the end of next week. Yes it is a paid for item because a combined 65+ years’ experience applied to this kind of thing doesn’t come free, especially when you’ve put in a lot of time into understanding the product, its position and value to the market.
For professionals looking to extend their consulting practices, we believe ByDesign is a superb opportunity to get deep into what your clients’ businesses really do, how they’re shaped and the problems they meet. I’m encouraging practitioners to consider this as a way of massively improving the value they offer. It requires the kind of mindset that professionals need to be both methodical and have that all important eye for detail. Learning the solution is not the issue for new people. Understanding process most certainly is.
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