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Top 10 Reasons Small and Midsize Enterprises
(SMEs) Choose SAP to Help Transform their Business
Top 10 Reasons Small and Midsize Enterprises (SMEs)
Choose SAP to Help Transform their Business
Complete Insight
1 We deliver a complete set of solutions designed for
SMEs
6 Our analytics solutions help you turn information into
actionable insight
2 Leadership
We are recognized as a leader by industry experts
and trusted by SME customers
7 Innovation
We deliver innovations that help your business
succeed
Choice Growth
3 We offer choices to fit the way you do business 8 Our solutions are designed to adapt as your business
grows
Industry Local
4 We put our industry expertise to work for you 9 We support you wherever you are
Time to value Ecosystem
5 We help you start fast and see results in weeks 10 Our extensive ecosystem of partners and customers
gives you more choices and more resources
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Complete
We deliver a complete set of solutions designed for SMEs.
Analytics solutions
Edge solutions for SMEs
Business intelligence and Better
performance management software decisions
that fits your business Best-run business
SAP BusinessObjects BI
OnDemand solution
Complete, cloud-based business
intelligence (BI) solution
Streamlined
SAP Crystal solutions processes
Simple and affordable business
intelligence tools for everyday use
Complete, integrated, and On-demand solution that Powerful, industry-specific
affordable ERP solution for is complete, integrated, solutions for midsize
small companies and adaptable companies
Business management solutions
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Leadership
We are recognized as a leader by industry experts and trusted by SME
customers.
SAP is a “leader” in Gartner’s SME customer trust SAP serves customers
Magic Quadrant for single- worldwide
instance ERP for
product-centric midmarket
companies
120
Countries
25
199,500
SAP SME customers
Industries
(and growing) 30+
Languages
80%
Of customers using SAP® 75
Business One have less than 50 Country offices
users
13,000+
Partners worldwide
Sources: LEFT: Gartner " Magic Quadrant for Single Instance ERP for Product-Centric Midmarket Companies" (Sep 2013); CENTER: SAP internal data Q2 2013. RIGHT: SAP internal.
Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted In the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed In the" Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool,
and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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Choice
We offer choices to fit the way you do business
Solutions Deployment Licensing
Packaged On premise Perpetual
Custom On device Subscription
On demand
Hosted
We provide the complete, integrated functionality your small or
midsize enterprise needs – delivered the way you want.
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Industry
We put our industry expertise to work for you
Support for Co-innovation from Built-in
25 major partners and customers, Best-practice
industries delivering 1,300+ support
industry-specific
solutions
Without the out-of-the-box SAP Best Practices packages and templates for the medical device industry,
we wouldn't have been able to implement our solution so quickly with so little customization.
Scott Baker, IT Manager, OraSure Technologies Inc.
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Time to Value
We help you start fast and see results in weeks
¥$€
Innovative packaging Fast time to value Affordable solutions
• Best-practice templates • ERP in 2–12 weeks • Fixed scope
• Preconfigured processes • Bl in 1 day–8 weeks • Fixed cost
• Pre-integrated applications
Our SAP software gave us an out-of-the-box solution that helped us accomplish our
business goals at a cost that a start-up could afford.
Coy Wright, VP of IT, Pacific Drilling Services Inc.
Source: CENTER: Benchmark from customers, partners, and internal 2010 (Numbers are estimates only; actual implementation time depends on customer requirements and
the specific customer situation).
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Insight
Our analytics solutions help you turn information into actionable insight
Data clutter Insight
Outdated information Real-time data
Confusion Confidence
Our analytics solutions free you from sorting through ad hoc reports, spreadsheets, and
databases – giving you the insight that drives better decision making.
SAP has helped us see our business very clearly in a cost-effective manner. We can put in
place better controls and enable managers to run their operations more efficiently.
Jason Ackerman, CFO and Founder, FreshDirect
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Innovation
We deliver innovations that help your business succeed
We build We integrate We partner
Leading the industry Acquiring companies that Co-innovating new solutions
in R & D investment deliver innovation, not and technologies with
legacy technology customers and partners
We are innovating in the following areas:
Mobile Cloud computing Analytics In-memory Rapid-deployment Big Data
computing
Source: LEFT: SAP analysis of public financial statements, based on a three-year average of R & D as a percentage of revenue.
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Growth
Our solutions are designed to adapt as your business grows
Proven scalability to support from 10 users to
more than 1,000 users
Functionality that handles from 100 transactions to
1 million transactions
Adaptable solutions that provide options for
adding new functionality, enabling new business
models, or growing internationally
Flexible configuration options so you can buy
what you need now and add more later
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Local
We support you wherever you are
There are hundreds of applications from SAP partners available from everywhere
on earth. And if they can help in Alice Springs – 1,500 kilometers from the
nearest major city – they can help anywhere.
Simon Worssam, Director, The Alice Springs Watershed
Localized solutions,
global presence
SAP solutions for small
businesses and midsize
companies meet global and
local business requirements
in 80+ countries.
Our solutions are available
in 30+ languages and 50
country-specific versions.
SAP and partners support
you worldwide on a local
Alice level with 24x7 service and
Springs 7 global support centers.
Source: SAP Internal – facts as of Q2 2013
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Ecosystem
Our extensive ecosystem of partners and customers gives you more
choices and more resources
Breadth of coverage
Our extensive network of
partners and customers 199,500
expands SME customers
the range of products, (and growing)
services, and problem 13,000+ 2,000,000
solving. SAP Developer
Partners
Network
(+3,000 value-
added resellers)
community
members
Depth of knowledge
Access the industry--
specific business
expertise and technical
know-how you need to meet
your business and
IT challenges.
SME customer
Source: SAP Internal – facts as of Q2 2013
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