SAP is seeking new organizations to sell its high-profile cloud product, Business ByDesign.  Michael Schmitt, the new sheriff in the ByD town says, "We are talking to a lot of partners to activate them, motivate and come along with them." The question asked at the SAP SME Summit this week was how the giant software will do that after much of the channel felt burned by SAP's repositioning the product upstream,

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After a two-year delay, SAP has gotten a version of its SaaS product BusinessByDesign to market that it is ready to take to volume. Volume is anything exceeding the roughly 100 customers it has acquired over the last few months as it worked out the problem with previous versions. Still, I think SAP is going to be a factor in the midmaret, the target for BBD. Read more...