At the start of February 2009, SAP unveiled SAP Business Suite 7 in New York. But what was new about it? While companies used to have to assemble their software by combining individual applications for functions such as resource planning (using SAP ERP), production (using SAP Product Lifecycle Management), and customer relationship management (using SAP Customer Relationship Management), SAP Business Suite provides a stable core upon which enterprises can base their business. The suite currently comprises:

• SAP ERP 6.0 (SAP Enterprise Resource Planning)
• SAP CRM 7.0 (SAP Customer Relationship Management)
• SAP SRM 7.0 (SAP Supplier Relationship Management)
• SAP SCM 7.0 (SAP Supply Chain Management)
• SAP PLM 7.0 (SAP Product Lifecycle Management)

At the heart of SAP Business Suite is the SAP ERP application, which is supplemented by SAP CRM, SAP SRM, SAP PLM, and SAP SCM. From financial accounting through manufacturing, logistics, sales, marketing, and human resources, all the key business processes that occur on a day-to-day basis in the world’s companies can be managed with SAP Business Suite.  The software comprises a range of preconfigured processes that are based on best practices gained from 35 years of experience. In other words, it maps processes that occur time and again in the running of enterprises.

By integrating the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio, users can also access a range of analysis functions. Crystal Reports and SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius Enterprise software enable data to be displayed dynamically, transformed into graphics, and processed interactively using dashboards.

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