New Release of SAP® Business One Application Eases Connections to Mobile Devices, Partner Applications and Cloud

SAP NEWSBYTE - - SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced the 8.81 release of the SAP® Business One application, designed to help small businesses grow. The new release features improvements that SAP is adding across its various product lines, including mobility, ease in development of partner applications and social networking. First customers such as Virtual Graffiti, Inc. are gaining improvements in visibility across the organization and control of inventory.

SAP Business One 8.81 offers enhanced features in areas such as:

*Mobility – Customers can extend their core applications via multiple mobile technologies that are supported in the latest version of the software. Customers can achieve insight and take action whenever and wherever they need.

*Partner enablement – Customers can work more effectively with the SAP partner ecosystem to build applications, as the latest version of SAP Business One offers integration to more sophisticated add-on applications and vertical industry solutions. The new release also features enhancements in the software development kit (SDK), SAP Business One studio, to help accelerate co-innovation with partners. For business analytics, SAP® Crystal Reports® and SAP® Crystal Dashboard Design software are now fully integrated into SAP Business One, allowing partners to leverage these functions with industry-specific content on top.

*Integration framework – Customers obtain constant access to their most important data through integration and collaboration with SAP Business One 8.81 and on demand, cloud, mobile devices, Web services, collaboration tools and social networks. The application unifies business processes and automates operations across an organization while the enhancements deliver rapid implementation with out-of-the-box business scenarios.

“As we continued achieving 30 percent year-over-year growth, we realized that we had outgrown QuickBooks and needed a more robust solution that could tie in all of our various IT systems,” said Hillel Sackstein, president of Virtual Graffiti, Inc. “Running the new release of SAP Business One, we’re better geared to serve our customers. It has integrated our entire company’s processes, systems and data, giving us greater insight into all aspects of our business, from our inventory to our customers’ demands.”