In Common SAP Business One Questions Answer: Implementation Part 1 Vision33 covered questions related to deployment options available, the time required to implemement SAP Business One for your business, what is included in the implementation process, and the cost of SAP Business One. In part 2 of the most common implementation questions, Vision33 answers your questions concerning the scalability add-ons, transfer of existing data to SAP Business One and software requirements needed to run the Business One solution. For a full list of the 20 most commonly asked SAP Business One and ERP related questions, Download Vison33's Guide to The Basics of SAP Business One.
SAP Business One provides a scalable solution that not only meets your fundamental business management needs today, but can also be scaled to handled and increased number of transactions generated by a growing customer base.
You need existing business data such as customers, vendors, items, and invoices in order to go live with SAP Business One. Data migration from your old system to SAP Business One can be imported from a text file, excel spreadsheet or manually. To ensure that the migration of data is done as easily as possible, SAP Business One has an add‑on called the data transfer workbench (DTW). This tool allows you to import additional master data and transactional data through data extraction, data mapping, and data import – guaranteeing data consistency.
SAP Business One has been designed with SMEs in mind. As a result, the application supports multiple technologies to reflect the various levels of IT investment made by fast‑growing businesses. At the basic level, the latest release of SAP Business One, Version 9.0, has the following minimum system requirements:
Consideration should be given to add additional processors and memory depending upon the number of mobile users in your company and how many SAP Business One Integration Services are activated (Mobility, Campaign Management, Inter Company, Requests for Quotation, etc.) If your business is growing faster than your IT infrastructure is able to support or does not have the IT resources to support the implementation of on‑premise solution, your business does have the option to deploy the SAP Business One application as a hosted solution.
For a full list of the 20 most commonly asked SAP Business One and ERP related questions, Download Vison33's Guide to The Basics of SAP Business One.