Author – Ilan Tal，Business Development Manager – Global Ecosystem & Channel Readiness From the history, to the future My personal journey with SAP Business One started in Autumn 1996, a journey that ended 21 years later with my farewell party at the SAP Headquarter in Walldorf, Germany. Over the years, I have been involved in […]
Author – Ilan Tal，Business Development Manager – Global Ecosystem & Channel Readiness Innovation was the cornerstone of SAP Business One from the start. Penetrating a conservative market of accounting software, dominated by local legacy systems without bringing any added value, new technologies, or management tools could leave SAP Business One in the competitors’ trail of […]
Author – Ilan Tal，Business Development Manager – Global Ecosystem & Channel Readiness Establishing the global development hubs Since its establishment in January 2003, the SAP Business One development team has grown from a handful of C++ developers into a collective of hundreds of colleagues with deep knowledge of modern programing languages and cutting-edge technologies. The team […]
Author – Ilan Tal，Business Development Manager – Global Ecosystem & Channel Readiness The Birth of an Award-winning Partner Program The SAP PartnerEdge program was the first significant effort of SAP to cooperate and engage with channel partners in a structured, win-win concept. It started with 2 products – SAP Business One that was pure channel […]
Author – Ilan Tal，Business Development Manager – Global Ecosystem & Channel Readiness Soon after the acquisition and the years ahead, there were discussions regarding the go-to-market strategy of SAP Business One. The product became a part of the small and midsize business(SMB) group with another SMB product, SAP All-in-One, and positioning for a specific market […]
Author – Ilan Tal，Business Development Manager – Global Ecosystem & Channel Readiness Selling SAP products to small companies was a kind of built-in paradox in 2003. Despite some efforts to penetrate this market, it just did not work. The target market was not in the scope of SAP and therefore the knowledge and experience were […]
Author – Ilan Tal，Business Development Manager – Global Ecosystem & Channel Readiness With the acquisition of TopManage and SAP Business One, SAP could reach the huge market potential of small businesses as well as subsidiaries of its global customers that were looking for an easy to implement and use software solution. The new SAP product, addressing […]
Author – Ilan Tal，Business Development Manager – Global Ecosystem & Channel Readiness The acquisition of TopManage by SAP The Acquisition of TopManage by SAP was relatively short process, addressing the need of SAP to provide a solution to the huge market of small and midsize businesses (SMBs). The time frame between the decision to acquire […]
Author – Ilan Tal，Business Development Manager – Global Ecosystem & Channel Readiness
Author – Ilan Tal，Business Development Manager – Global Ecosystem & Channel ReadinessQuicksoft was a great greenhouse and the flow of the technology to Menahel was vital, but after years of working under this umbrella came the time to establish a company that would focus on developing and selling the product.At the end of 1996, Menahel […]
