SAP Unveils Updates to Growing Product Line of Cloud Offerings - Page 2

The latest release of SAP Sourcing OnDemand, wave 9, delivers on standard integration with the SAP® Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) application to help enable greater compliance and cost savings opportunities for customers. Designed with the sourcing professional in mind, the new release of SAP Sourcing OnDemand includes features that enhance usability and drive more competitive sourcing, offering customers the opportunity for greater efficiency. The solution enables customers to effectively execute strategic sourcing, contract management and supplier management — all areas integral to lowering customers' overall business costs.

proseed Adopts SAP Sales OnDemand; Wave 3 to Bring to Market New Salesperson-Centric Capabilities

Released in mid-2011 and designed from the ground up to empower salespeople to sell more effectively, SAP Sales OnDemand continues on a rapid pace of innovation, with a third release in nine months forthcoming. The cloud solution is gaining traction among SAP customers, including proseed GmbH, an industry-leading online marketing and consulting company. proseed recently selected SAP Sales OnDemand to help address its sales organization's unique needs, and arm them with a simple, mobile and user-friendly application that adds value throughout every step of the sales process.

"Our sales organization has zero time to waste," said Egon Scherer, CEO, proseed. "SAP Sales OnDemand gives us a super fast solution that everyone loves to use. The social collaboration lets us quickly exchange best practices, while the out-of-the-box mobile apps help ensure our salespeople are productive no matter where they are, with no additional costs and no IT headaches. SAP Sales OnDemand is designed for real salespeople and it shows."

Features planned for inclusion in the forthcoming wave 3 of SAP Sales OnDemand include:

• Native integration with the SAP® Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) application, which aims to enable customers to leverage the transactional capabilities of SAP® Business Suite software while protecting their current on-premise investment.
• Support for Android, the fastest-growing mobile OS, which further expands the mobile offering and enables salespeople to stay up-to-date on key sales information from their preferred mobile devices at no extra cost.
• New "what-if" scenarios to provide salespeople with laser focus on what actions will help them achieve their quotas faster.
• Support for Italian and Portuguese languages.

SAP today also announced the SAP® Business One OnDemand solution, a new cloud offering that aims to build upon the broad market success of the SAP Business One application, addressing small enterprise preferences for minimal up-front cost and lower IT operations. To read more, see "SAP to Extend Business Opportunities for Partners With Launch of SAP Business One OnDemand."

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