SAP Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) made available, yesterday, the third enhancement package for its enterprise resource planning (ERP) application, SAP ERP.
Released incrementally and at no charge to existing customers , these enhancement packages enable customers to access new software features via a simple download to switch on as needed, responding directly to customer requests for access to new innovation without touching mission-critical core systems.
First introduced in mid-2006, enhancement packages are driving customer adoption, and according to SAP, is making SAP ERP 6.0 the “go-to” SAP ERP release.
There are currently 5,500 customers using SAP ERP today.
“Through our delivery of enhancement packages, SAP is continuing to lead the way in the enterprise software market by offering customers the ability to quickly innovate and service-enable their enterprise applications at their own pace, without waiting for a major upgrade,” said Simon Dale, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, SAP Asia Pacific Japan.
“We are hearing very positive feedback from our customers about their appreciation for the simplicity of enhancement packages, and we plan to implement this approach of innovation without disruption across the entire SAP Business Suite in the near term.”
The newest enhancement package makes significant use of SAP’s industry-specific expertise with updates for customers in the retail, trading and public services sectors, as well as enhancements to core ERP modules including financials, human capital management, procurement, corporate services, and sales and service.
The third enhancement package also includes more than 50 enterprise services bundles, groups of existing services interfaces that cut across various modules of and business areas covered by SAP ERP. With industry-specific and broad-use purposes such as collaborative networks for the healthcare industry or advancements in traditional order-to-cash processes, enterprise services bundles rapidly provide value to customers by helping them bundle together new and existing enterprise services to address specific customer pain points. |
