MUMBAI, INDIA: With organizations leveraging the best of SAP Software, delivered on-Demand, SAP has announced that the Indian companies, Prognosys eServices Pvt. Ltd. and Ace Data Devices Pvt. Ltd., have chosen SAP Business ByDesign to run their mission-critical business processes and adapt quickly to changing market conditions.

SAP Business ByDesign enables midsize companies from various industries to improve transparency and business operations, and support international growth—all while helping to reduce IT costs. In selecting the flexible and scalable SAP Business ByDesign solution, clients enjoy close collaboration with SAP from the first point of contact through their productive use of the solution.
 
Recently, Prognosys, a leading market intelligence and research solutions firm, has implemented SAP Business ByDesign to achieve end to end, integrated systems across functions to ensure scalability and information visibility. Using SAP Business ByDesign. The 250-employee firm aims to fuel its revenue growth at 300 per cent over the next three years whilst continuing to seek operational excellence.
 
"We are confident that SAP Business ByDesign will best address our requirements and empower us with the agility to keep pace with changing market conditions," said Ritesh Shanker, CIO, Prognosys eServices Pvt. Ltd.

"The integrated, on-demand solution will help us manage our business requirements without additional IT resources. We will enjoy greater visibility into key metrics that measure the ratio of performance to cost. In addition, we will have better financial management, higher efficiency in project execution and compliance with country specific legal requirements," he said.

Ace Data Devices Pvt. Ltd., a small enterprise specializing in storage and data consolidation systems, has chosen to bring its entire enterprise on a single business process platform with SAP Business ByDesign. A fast growing company keen to satisfy customers, Ace Data was being held back by their legacy system that catered only to sales and services and was not integrated with their financials. This resulted in a fractured view of the company's operations, impacting the decision making process.

SAP Business ByDesign is designed to support faster time to value and minimize customers' overall IT costs dramatically by reducing the need for user training, hardware investments, service, support and IT staffing. In addition to these benefits, Ace Data opted for SAP Business ByDesign because it provided them with an end-to-end, integrated system that ensured scalability and complete visibility into all lines of the business.
 
"SAP Business ByDesign offered us a complete package that addressed our business integration, as well as financial and human capital management needs," said Neeraj Mediratta, director, Ace Data Devices Pvt Ltd. "We found the analytics to be far more sophisticated than those we had been using, and that translated into making better business decisions. SAP Business ByDesign provides Ace Data with the best of both worlds – SAP's rich domain expertise in enterprise business solutions combined with a SaaS model that can scale with our rapid international growth."
  
Springboard Research confirms demand for SaaS applications
 
With SAP Business ByDesign, SAP is responding to a strong demand from Indian companies for SaaS-based ERP solutions. This was revealed in a survey of 530 CIOs and IT decision makers conducted by Springboard Research with enterprises across Asia-Pacific. According to the study, 20 per cent of the respondents are already using SaaS-based ERP while 35 per cent of potential SaaS buyers are interested in procuring SaaS-based ERP within the next 12 months.
 
"The market for SaaS-based ERP applications, together with SCM and PLM, constitutes seven per cent to the total SaaS market in the APAC region," said Balaka Baruah Aggarwal, Senior Manager, Emerging Software at Springboard Research. "We expect this market to grow faster because of the relatively low level of penetration of on-premise ERP application, particularly in China and India."
 
"I believe that Indian SMEs share a common need for low total cost of ownership, predictability and long-term protection of their investments regardless of their business models, the industries they belong to, or their geographic location," said Ranjan Das, managing director, SAP Indian Subcontinent. "Through our controlled go-to-market strategy for SAP Business ByDesign, we are in a position to work collaboratively with many of the most innovative companies in this segment. We are confident that with SAP, our customers receive a solution that supports their business strategy in a flexible way over the long term."