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,

Kevin Gilroy, who said early in the game that he did not care if moved up in the company, has taken over as the head of Global Indirect Channels for SAP.  Gilroy joined the company in January 2010 as the VP who led channel and business development functions for SAP's North American small and midsize business organization. In that position, he was the visible executive involved in building the reseller base for SAP's cloud offering, Business ByDesign.