Indian version of SAP Business One in H2 '05

SAP will announce the India specific version of Business One in the second
half of this year. Business One is an integrated business management solution
designed to address the specific needs of emerging and dynamically growing small
and midsize businesses. It is an out-of-the-box solution with country-specific
localization that can be deployed 'as is'.

Currently, India is the only country in the Asia Pacific region missing out
on SAP Business One. The solution package of Business One starts at Euro 15,000,
which includes the software, service and the hardware. However, India may have a
different pricing for the India specific version, which will be decided at the
time of the launch.

Worldwide, Business One has nearly versions of 40 countries, with over 800
business partners implementing it worldwide. "SAP Business One is helping
over 5,300 customers worldwide to improve business-process efficiency, take
advantage of growth opportunities and seamlessly link with parent companies,
customers and suppliers using mySAP Business Suite solutions," said Pranay
Mital, Director, SMB Operations, Asia Pacific.

According to him, Business One covers the core operations necessary to run
successful businesses, including customer relationship management, accounting,
reporting, sales and distribution, purchasing, and warehouse and partner
management, whether it has several employees or a few hundred. It is sold
exclusively through a channel of certified sales and service partners.

An important part of SAP's offering for channel partners is the SAP
Business One software development kit — one of the most advanced development
environments available in the SMB space. The power and flexibility of the
software development kit allows SAP Business Partners to provide significant
benefits such as a high degree of adaptability to business processes and
management, powerful customizations, formatted search and user fields and smooth
upgrade processes. It also allows partners to develop applications that add new
business management and industry-specific capabilities to SAP Business One.

Business One encompasses core enterprise management functionality such as
general ledger, sales, purchasing, inventory, costing and CRM. With the new XL
Reporter feature to be incorporated through SAP's acquisition of iLytix
Systems AS, SAP Business One also offers a strong business intelligence tool for
SMBs leveraging Microsoft Excel to provide users with access to critical data
and advanced reporting.

Business One enables corporate subsidiaries, partners and suppliers to easily
integrate into the mySAP Business Suite environment of their customers,
partners, suppliers or global parent corporations.

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