July 06, 2011 // By: Christiane Stagge

Innovations 2010 includes EHPs for ERP, CRM, and the rest of SAP Business Suite (image: Fotolia)
Industry-specific solutions, platform enhancements, new BI functions – Innovations 2010, also known as BS7 i2010, comprises all of the latest releases and enhancement packages for SAP Business Suite.
SAP Business Suite itself, meanwhile, consists of the following core applications:
With this comprehensive package, companies no longer need to assemble their software from individual components; for more, check out the article “One for All: 365 Days of SAP Business Suite.”
Innovations 2010 refers to all of the updates and enhancement packages for SAP Business Suite, such as EHP 2 for SAP NetWeaver 7, EHP 5 for SAP ERP 6.0, and all of the EHPs for SAP CRM, SAP SRM, SAP SCM, and SAP PLM. Most of the enhancement packages, however, are still in the ramp-up phase.
A simple maxim sums up the idea behind these packages: “innovation without disruption.” By updating SAP Business Suite regularly in this way, SAP has made expensive, time-consuming release upgrades a thing of the past.
To read more about the reduced time and effort required to install enhancement packages, don’t forget our article “EHP Just a Few Clicks Away.” Meanwhile, EHPs also offer full flexibility by giving companies the choice of performing a comprehensive installation or selecting which packages to activate and use.
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