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Differences between SAP business one&SAP R/3 systems

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Hellow Gurus,

Can any one give me some information regarding the differences between SAP business one&Sap R/3 systems in the terms of implementation/Duration/Features from Fi side.

Thanks&Regards,

Kumar.

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Hello Kumar,

SAP Business One is an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) software that targets business software requirements of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).

SAP Business One contains 14 "core modules":

Administration Module = where configuration is performed

Financials Module = where various accounting and financial activities are conducted

Sales Opportunities Module = where existing customers and potential amounts are structured tracking

Sales Module = where orders are entered, shipped and invoiced

Purchasing Module = where purchase orders are issued and goods received into inventory

Business Partners Module = where Business Partners (customers, vendors, and leads) are contacted and maintained

Banking Module = where cash is received and paid out

Inventory Module = where Inventory is valued and managed

Production Module = where bill of materials is defined and manufacturing is tracked

MRP Module = where purchase and production planning takes place

Service Module = where after-service products are managed

Human Resources Module = where employee information is kept

Reports Module = where system-default and user-defined reports are generated (as on-screen tables, printouts or Excel files)

E-commerce= allowing customers to buy and sell online to consumers or other businesses.

History: In March 2002 SAP purchased TopManage Financial Systems, an Israel-based developer of business applications and branded their system as SAP Business One. TopManage was founded by Shai Agassi who was formally president of the Product and Technology Group at SAP and his father Reovan – the team behind portal company TopTier, which SAP bought in March 2001.

The acquisition allowed SAP to reach out to the midmarket through its partners and also to gain additional business from the smaller subsidiaries of its enterprise customers

In December 2004, SAP acquired the technology and assets of iLytix Systems AS, a privately held software company based in Oslo, Norway. As a result SAP introduced new reporting and budgeting capabilities in SAP Business One called XL Reporter.

In July 2006 SAP acquired Praxis Software Solutions and plans to integrate the company's Web-based CRM and e-commerce capabilities into SAP Business One. Financial terms of the deal weren't disclosed. Minneapolis-based Praxis, a private software company, had previously been a SAP Business One partner.

The company also began reporting revenues from the SME space separately from revenues for the larger customers, as a way of showing dedication to the SME market.

Integration: Integration can be achieved using the SDK component called DIAPI. The DIAPI provides COM based interface to the business objects & business logic of SAP Business One. As those are APIs, using them require software development skills. More simple way to achieve an integration is using the SAP Business One integration platform (a.k.a. B1i) the integration platform enables simple (XML based) definition of integration scenarios. the B1i platform is being used for integration with SAP's large enterprise systems R/3.

Integration needs are present even for small business users. For example, SAP Business One offers a client/server and Microsoft Windows GUI only. It is also limited to a single chart of accounts. Obviously, many of the potential users of SAP Business One need integration of their existing websites, consolidation of multiple ERP systems and other integration solutions. The Business One SDK provides some other components that allow development of addons to the Business One Application.

Architecture: SAP R/3 is based on a three tier client/server technology. Typically, it is made up of three functionally distinct layers namely: the user interface, business logic and database.

The user interface, which is otherwise known as the presentation server displays the interface for users' communication with the SAP system. It is often referred to as the SAP GUI. As a matter of fact, it is a program called sapgui.exe. The application server is where the business logic and data manipulation takes place. Data processing, SAP administration tasks and client request/feedback management are handled within the business layer. The database layer is synonymous to the database server and it typically acts as a data repository for tables and other database objects and structures.

Ideally, an R/3 system is composed of one database server, one or more application servers and one or more presentation servers. SAP Business One on the other hand is composed of a database server and one or more presentation servers.

Other similar products in ERP space: SAP Business One competes with Microsoft Business Solutions globally, and with a variety of national packages such as those sold by Sage in many countries around the world.Recently new competitors with online offerings have emerged in the marketplace. Companies such as NetSuite (CRM & ERP) and Salesforce.com (CRM only) offer similar functionality in web based applications.

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Some of the main difference from R/3 with reference to implementation are

SAP Business one is a smaller product and hence the implemetation is not as tedious as R/3.

(ii) it is targeted for SMEs not having more than 70-100 users.

(iii) The implementation time is lesser.

Hope I had been able to help you. please assign points.

Rgds

Manish