During its earnings Webcast, the company announced Sales By Design, which is pointed squarely at Salesforce.com and which will debut early next year. SAP said only that there would be a variety of applications built on the By Design platform. Its current line produced good results in the quarter with revenue hitting roughly $4.2 billion an increase of roughly 20 percent over the prior year when measure in euros. Net income hit about $696 million, a 12-percent rise. Co-CEO Jim Hagemann-Snabe said it was too early to comment on BBD numbers, but noted that the product had been launched in six countries during the quarter and that the volume was growing sharply, but was still low. The company talked about having significant wins with BBD, but provided no details.