One of the niggling questions about SAP's Business ByDesign is just how the heck it is going to reach the numbers it says it wants to achieve. 10,000 new customers a year by 2010, many coming from ...

Peter Zencke, a member of SAP’s Executive Board and head of R&D, spent the last fours years developing Business ByDesign, a new foundation for SAP's ERP software. I caught up with him during SAP ...

Users of SAP’s Business ByDesign on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) suite now have “one-click” integration with a range of third-party Web services, such as Google’s search ...

AllThingsD reported over the weekend that SAP is looking to shift development resource away from its Business ByDesign product line. Business ByDesign is SAP's product aimed at smaller businesses ...

SAP unveiled Business ByDesign, a set of software-as-a-service applications targeting midsize companies with 100 to 500 employees, last year and predicted sales would reach $1 billion by 2010.

There are about 1,100 ByDesign customers now, although that number falls far short of SAP’s original hope of 10,000 by 2010.