Faced with dwindling sales opportunities and a tough economy, many emerging small to medium-sized businesses know that they must embrace operational efficiencies such as enterprise-wide computing to survive. Unfortunately at the state of current economy, many companies also lack the positive cash flow to purchase such integrated software systems, along with the CRM and eCommerce modules that could help them immediately cut costs by reducing inefficiencies, increase sales, improve customer service and provide them with more control in an unstable marketplace. Recognizing this obstacle to growth, if not outright survival, a new model of offering enterprise-wide systems via creative options such as on-demand software has emerged that promises to deliver relief to the thousands of small business that desperately need to streamline operations. By not having to part with large lumps of up-front money, owners of small business can compete with the same technologic advantages that their counterparts at the Forbes 400 level currently enjoy. Even cream

of the crop systems like SAP’s Business One have become available at minimal expense by way of progressive resellers that package it as a System as a Service (SaaS). By dynamically linking financials, sales, service, purchasing, inventory, manufacturing and MRP functions, early adopters of this technology have saved thousands of dollars by executing orders more quickly and accurately, improving quality control and improving service to their customers. But the biggest boon for those still on the outside looking in comes in the form of integrators who know the ERP product inside and out, and who are willing to front the expense of carrying the software on their servers if necessary. This allows all the advantages of end-to-end computing without the steep entry fees. “By implementing SAP Business One we experienced much improvement in controlling and managing the customer-service-to-production process. In addition, the ‘configurator’ developed by Softengine…

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SMBs Streamline Operations with SAP’s Business One