SAP Updates Line-of-Business Cloud Apps
May 15, 2013
Grazed from CIO. Author: Chris Kanaracus.
Selling SaaS (software as a service) applications aimed at specific lines of business is one way that SAP has tried to stake a claim in the world of cloud computing and during the Sapphire conference it unveiled a broad series of updates to the portfolio.
For marketing purposes, SAP has oriented the line-of-business applications into four thematic areas: people, customer, money and suppliers. SuccessFactors falls into the first category with its HCM (human capital management) products, with SAP’s Cloud for Customer, Cloud for Financials and Ariba fitting in the other categories…
Among the more significant features announced Wednesday was that support for 29 new countries has been added to SuccessFactors Employee Central, for a total of 51. In addition, SuccessFactors’ payroll module is now fitted for 22 countries, SAP said. Meanwhile, Cloud for Financials has also been rolled out in more geographic areas, with support for local taxation and reporting standards available in Austria, Denmark and New Zealand. The application is now available for 14 countries. The added global reach could help SAP compete more effectively against rival Workday, which has been winning large deals for its own cloud-based HCM and financials software…
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