A quick look at SAP ByD 3.0: Go for gold

SAP completely changed the design of their SaaS-solution SAP Business byDesign. It is alligned with SAP's overall visual design now including the main colors of all SAP solutions: Black and gold.

FP 3.0 is scheduled to be released July 29th and also includes customer contract management and other new scenarios such as Order-to-Cash (Third-Party Order Processing – Materials).

SAP Business ByDesign for Large Enterprise Subsidiaries

The SAP Business ByDesign for Subsidiaries of Large Enterprises scenario enables a large enterprise (using SAP ERP) to exchange data with its subsidiaries (using SAP Business ByDesign). The Procure-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash (including Third-Party Order Processing) scenarios are currently supported in which transactional and master data are exchanged between SAP Business ByDesign and SAP ERP.

Project Time Recording for Mobile Applications

A new set of views for consumption on a mobile device enable users who are working on their mobile device using a supported SAP Business ByDesign mobile application to create time recordings of projects' tasks. Project team members can record their time in the context of tasks, services, and purchase orders.

Introduction of Customer Projects with Full Sales and Financial Integration

A new category of project was introduced. It is now possible to set up customer projects with full integration into the sales and financial processes. The main differentiation to customer projects in previous releases is that the linkage of the project with a sales order is now mandatory, and the financial-posting logic is adjusted to support full revenue recognition, for example all postings to the project are redirected to the sales ledgers. It is possible to activate the customer project process in the solution configuration, when you can also set up appropriate project types or use the pre-defined project type. You can also set up the sales order and project linkage according to the Sell Project-based Services business scenario to use automatic cost and revenue postings, as well as the necessary follow-up financial processes.

Author: Frank Naujoks