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SAP Business One Customization Market - review
By Andrew Karasev
SAP Business One has
about 4 years of implementation history and very robust presence in the USA,
Europe, Australia, New Zealand, plus it has strong positions internationally.
Considering the fact of relatively young age - the design of the system,
including object model enable advanced customization, integration with both
legacy and new technologies. We see certain stake on Microsoft technologies,
such as MS SQL Server and COM object model. Integrated CRM module allows you to
deploy Microsoft Outlook client for messaging, just to name a few. In addition
to the customizability - SAP Business One has transaction integration to high
end SAP, which allows this product to consolidate mid-size and small
subsidiaries across the USA or internationally to your SAP corporate ERP system
- franchisees network, dealerships, manufacturing facilities, etc. In this
small article we will give customization scenarios to IT managers, who are
planning to deploy SAP Business One integration, customization, reporting, etc.
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SAP Business One SDK.
SAP Business One Software Development Kit has User Interface API, Data Interface
API, Java Connector. The recommended way of customization design is XML web
services, which allows you integrate custom web portals with SAP Business One
objects: Sales Orders, Inventory Items, Customers. Ecommerce or Web-based
Extranet (collaboration with your permanent vendors and customers) would be a
good example.
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Implementation Partners.
SAP Business One has several licensing & certifications criteria. One path
allows the SAP partner to provide installations and so-called functional
consulting. This means that these companies are experts of tying your business
processes to SAP Business One standard set of modules and standard
features/functionality. In our opinion - SAP BO is not only for relatively
small to midsize businesses, but also for mid-size to large and even corporate
business (subsidiaries and branches). Large companies have combination of
multiple systems, including legacy - often they combine several platforms:
Windows, Unix/Linux, Lotus Notes Domino, Siebel CRM, Salelogix, IBM DB2 to name
a few. In this situation you need partnership with technically-savvy and
experienced partner
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Customization Partners.
SAP Business One SDK is not an open technology and in order to get access to it
SAP Partner should get SDK development training and pass certification exam. At
the same time, SAP SDK uses open tools, such as Microsoft Visual Studio, for
example for coding itself. This leads to the common practice when Customization
partners do not provide implementation and functional consulting services, but
rather concentrate on development - offshore business location is also common.
Some risk, however might be attributed to the fact that one organization does
business processes specification and another one realizes them in custom coding.
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Technology Partners.
The best result in the custom solution in our opinion could be achieved with SAP
Business One Partner, who does both sides: Implementation/Functional and
Customization/Development. Considering less then 10,000 SAP Business One
implementations worldwide - it might be difficult to find local technology
partner in your area, in this case - the compromise is to use remote partner
with the network of local independent contractors.
Happy implementing,
customizing and modifying! If you want us to do the job - give us a call
1-866-528-0577!
help@albaspectrum.com
About the Author
Andrew Karasev is Chief Technology Officer
at Alba Spectrum Technologies (
http://www.albaspectrum.com ) - SAP Business One, Microsoft Business
Solutions Great Plains, Navision, Axapta MS CRM, Oracle Financials and IBM Lotus
Domino Partner, serving corporate customers in the following industries:
Aerospace & Defense, Medical & Healthcare, Distribution & Logistics,
Hospitality, Banking & Finance, Wholesale & Retail, Chemicals, Oil & Gas,
Placement & Recruiting, Advertising & Publishing, Textile, Pharmaceutical,
Non-Profit, Beverages, Conglomerates, Apparels, Durables, Manufacturing and
having locations in multiple states and internationally.
We are serving USA Nationwide: CA, IL, NY,
FL, AZ, CO, TX, WI, WA, MI, MA, MO, LA, NM, MN, Europe: Germany, France,
Belgium, Poland, Russia, Middle East (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, OAE, Bahrain), Asia:
China, Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, South & Central America: Mexico, Peru,
Brazil, Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Chili, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina,
Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico
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