This guide gives an in-depth breakdown of what SAP Business One is used for and who can benefit from it.
In an effort to digitise and streamline many operational policies and processes, the average business tends to adopt technology gradually. This often results in a fragmented system or network of tools that don’t always work correctly together, creating more headaches and operational silos.
SAP Business One is a direct response to this problem, delivering a comprehensive business management solution that’s accessible, affordable, and properly synchronised. It helps manage financials, inventory, sales, warehousing, accounting, customer relationships, vendor interactions, and much more. Wrapped into all of those tools are also advanced analytics and reporting applications, providing incredibly detailed insights into what’s happening in real time.
But while that definition explains what SAP Business One is and how it might apply to the average business, it doesn’t touch on the true purpose of the platform—freedom and scalability.
What Is the True Purpose of SAP Business One?
SAP Business One, particularly via cloud hosting, offsets the technologies, responsibilities, and related security to a remote provider, which means nothing has to be maintained in-house. Even with a comprehensive solution such as SAP Business One that merges all business software and reporting facets into one platform, there’s much to deal with. It’s not something that even a large operation can handle without difficulties, and that takes a lot of the focus away from the business’s bottom line. Maintaining an in-house or on-site data centre is no small feat.
Yet, with SAP, migrating an existing solution with either a SQL or HANA database is just as painless as adopting a completely new solution. That’s because everything is handled by the provider (in this case, your partner), allowing you to focus on the rest of your business. Above all, SAP Business One providers have all of the necessary hardware, tools, and staff to keep the systems operational, updated, and secure, and they can do this at all hours of the day and night—something that most standalone businesses can only hope to achieve.
The platform can also be fully customised to meet a business’s team size, customer demands, and software or hardware requirements—for example, by adding extra applications or more processing power when applicable. The solutions scale up or down to meet your business wherever it is. If you need to scale up later because your team size has grown or your customer base has skyrocketed, it won’t be a problem, and you won’t see a significant rise in installation or server costs.
Who Benefits From Using SAP Business One and Cloud Solutions?
SAP Business One customers can reap all the benefits of these streamlined solutions. You can wash your hands of everything required to keep these systems operational, updated, and secure, leaving it all up to the provider. There’s no need for you to invest in expensive servers, software, the space to house these systems, or even extra staff to maintain them all. It’s as close to a turnkey solution as you can get without taking on more responsibility and a lot more stress.
SAP Business One is especially helpful for small businesses that often work with limited resources, but it’s also perfectly suitable for medium to large organisations, making it such an excellent platform. Click here to get in touch with one of our team members and learn more about how we can assist in hosting and setting up your SAP Business One.