SAP Business One Roadmap 2010-2014
Mission Statement for SAP Business One
Our goal is delivering an on-premise or hosted business management solution for small businesses that is easy to use, flexible, and affordable.
We will expand the solution into a highly flexible business platform so that SAP Business One will become the ideal platform for co-innovations with our Ecosystem, joining networked applications and cloud computing together.
SAP Business One Executive Management Team.
Key Objectives
- Focus on Market Needs, Legal Compliance and Robustness
- Advance product innovations across Functionality, User Experience and System Performance
- Embed real-time Reporting and Analytics
- Expand Integration Scenarios and Collaboration
- Enable accelerated Partner innovations, add-ons and vertical industry solutions
Clear Roadmap and Accelerated Product Innovation: –
2006 – SAP Business One 2005
2008 – SAP Business One 2007 and 2007 SP01
2010 – SAP Business One 8.8 (May/2010 GA), 8.81, 8.82
2012 – SAP Business One 9.0 (Q3/2010 GA), 9.1, 9.2
2014 – SAP Business One 10.0, 10.1, 10.2
…. Continues business inovation without business disruption.
Release Family Definition: –
- Enhancements are delivered in major or minor releases. Major releases (e.g. 8.8) contain major new functionality or architectural changes; minor releases (e.g. 8.81, 8.82) include new and improved business functions or corrections
- Interfaces remain stable between major and minor releases
- A major release and minor releases that follow it, present a release family
Release Family Maintenance: -
- Each release family is supported for 3 years (begins with unrestricted shipment of the major release and covers any subsequent minor releases in the release family)
- When a new minor release enters unrestricted shipment, maintenance of the preceding version is discontinued
- Patch frequency varies from 4 to 12 weeks; gradually decreasing during maintenance period