SME Insights

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SAP's Best-Kept Secret: Small Businesses and Midsize Enterprises Are Rapidly Adopting SAP's Solutions by Dr. Prasad Akella, SAP SAPinsider Approximately 80% of SAP’s customers fall into the small and midsize enterprises (SME) category—a surprise for those who usually associate SAP software with large businesses. In this first installment of the new “SME Insights” column, SAP’s Dr. Prasad Akella explains why SMEs are flocking to SAP’s solutions, what impact these solutions are having on their businesses, and what this might mean for your company—large or small.
How SMEs Are Democratizing Access to Their Data by Dr. Prasad Akella, SAP SAPinsider Small businesses and midsize enterprises (SMEs) face three key challenges that impede their ability to make good, data-driven decisions: ensuring the integrity of information, democratizing the availability of information, and controlling the cost of ownership. This article sheds light on how the key components of SAP's SME portfolio — SAP BusinessObjects Edge Business Intelligence software and SAP BusinessObjects Edge Rapid Marts packages — address these challenges.
What to Do When Your Subsidiaries Need to Integrate with Headquarters by Carney Vensel, LORD Corporation, in conversation with SME Insights Columnist Prasad Akella and Sheila Zelinger, SAP SAPinsider Subsidiaries, which make up an important portion of the small business and midsize enterprise (SME) population, face a unique challenge: these companies need solutions that will fit their SME needs, but will also integrate with the corporate solutions that their headquarters uses. In this Q&A, you'll find out why LORD Corporation chose SAP Business One to integrate its subsidiary operations and provide profit accounting, quality, and WIP management capabilities to all of its plants.