SAP A1S Online Apps Launches in September

Anybody who has work with SAP from scratch would agree that installing and maintaining SAP ERP is not an easy task. In fact, it is intimidating especially for newbies who do not have a very stable foundation in relational databases.
Many services are offering adult education for SAP training and since they know how intimidating learning SAP is, they have integrated fun and in game in the learning curriculum.
But for many who want to learn at their own pace and not worry about being overwhelmed by the pressure of coping up with the installation and maintenance of SAP systems, the worry is about to be over – September 19, 2007 – maybe you want to mark your calendars now.
The new SAP's "A1S" SaaS-style offering which will be launched on September 19, 2007 will surely mark a milestone in ERP history as SAP giant will make it easy for medium sized business to let some of their staff to try the online ERP application that small to medium sized companies can hardly afford many of their staff to a classroom training. SAP said it hopes to make the small to medium sized business organizations all over the world which have been looking for innovate way to do consuming automation with software. And reaching out to this global market is so easy as this software obviously uses the internet and deploys software as an online service.
A1S has been intended by SAP to cut the cost of cost of ownership for small and mid-sized companies by as much as 90 percent. By doing this, SAP is putting a player which will have a critical part in helping the company to attain its goals which is to grow its customer base to 100,000 from the current 39,000. SAP is also targeting to expand is addressable market to $70 billion by 2010 from today's $30 billion.
This project has been at works for the past couple of months and was codenamed "Project Vienna". This represent the company's third thrust at the midrange market. By SAP's definition, midmarket refer to a company with fewer than 2,500 employees and less than 500 million euros in annual revenues.
In the next few months, there will surely be lots of talks, discussions, forums and articles on SAP's Netweaver middleware and whole the whole suite of stacked software has been re-jiggered with a services oriented architecture. Re-jiggering will make it doable for companies to implement mySAP without having to spend on huge amounts of consulting fees.
There is yet no word up to know whether the A1S products will be supported on the System I platform. Windows has been very popular with SAP's small and medium businesses customers so it will be no wonder when the A1S will soon debut on Windows platforms.

So let us wait for September 19 and when that time comes, there will be no need to stampede because we all have access from the comforts of our chairs.