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SAP Business One 9.2 Highlights

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Published on 17 Jan 2016

With SAP Business One 9.2, you can run your business simply… anytime, anywhere.

We introduce Browser Access, leverage our SAP HANA based innovations and take advantage of new business processes such as Project Management.

We’ve kept SAP Business One simple, making it easier and more cost effective to use than ever before.

English Transcript

0:00 Welcome to the release highlights for SAP Business One 9.2 with SAP Business one
0:11 9.2 you can run your business simply anytime anywhere
0:17 introducing SAP business one browser exes simple remote access for on-premise
0:22 customers ultimately lowering the overall total cost of ownership by
0:28 accelerating transition to the cloud we've opened up to new market segments
0:32 differentiate your business with ASAP business 19 . true version Paris AP
0:38 henna and leverage out ASAP henna paste innovations we have extended
0:44 SAP Business One with new business processes such as project management and continue
0:49 to round up existing processes and evolve to meet ongoing legal
0:53 requirements we've kept his AP business one simple from simple remote access
0:59 simple life cycle management and the simplified infrastructure in landscape
1:04 environment making ASAP business 19 point to eat and more cost effective to
1:10 use in ever before so what's on the agenda we have a number of key
1:16 highlights should be covered in more detail in the coming slides from
1:21 enhanced administration topics financial management and introducing a new project
1:26 management module and updates to sales purchasing service ASAP business 19.2%
1:32 for a sleepy henner include powerful business intelligence tools we will also
1:37 share with you we have also rounded out a number of business processes under
1:43 inventory distribution MRP in production and simplified and optimized the
1:49 lifecycle management of his AP business writer last but certainly not least we
1:54 will introduce browser access and key extensibility enhancements so let's look
2:01 at these topics in more detail starting with the administration we have
2:07 extended a number of feelings 250 characters including item number
2:12 business partner catalog number
2:14 resource number manufacturing catalog number and the use of coat and whilst
2:19 this may seem like a simple update it provides greater flexibility to define
2:25 various items of the same product distinguished by different attributes
2:29 such as size color height or width it supports a greater range of naming
2:34 conventions to meet different business or industry needs the electronic
2:40 document framework we feel like trying to document framework you can now
2:45 generate XML files for your transactions for immigration purposes it supports all
2:50 accounts receivable transactions on the customer side like quotations sales
2:55 orders deliveries or invoices the electronic document framework can easily
2:59 be set up and in combination with an integration solution such as the
3:04 integration framework of is a keeper since one you can implement an
3:08 electronic data exchange an error this now provides a simple approach to
3:13 generate an XML output for your business and in easy way to set up an electronic
3:18 data exchange and integration with your customers happy is simple but effective
3:26 tool for copying data between data sources supports a number of you data
3:30 categories from Music Group authorizations through to non fury star
3:35 cockpit and dashboards making it more powerful and flexible to use data
3:41 ownership functionality in previous releases are only supported matting
3:46 documents we have extended data ownership management to include business
3:51 partner master data allowing the ability to restrict access to business partner
3:56 master data and the creation of documents relating to corresponding
4:00 business partners you can restrict access and visibility of specific
4:06 business partner master data for specific uses data ownership can also be
4:11 bypassed by granting access as owner the entire company in addition explicit
4:17 restrictions can be made or excluded for system
4:20 reports and many other issues AP business one windows including marketing
4:24 documents so this feature delivers an additional layer of authorization and
4:29 security and enhance usability as only relevant data is considered and
4:34 safeguards company formation against data theft currently in this apt since
4:41 one if you want to send an email which is triggered by an alert the ASAP
4:45 business one client needs to be running 10 alert is triggered with release 9.2 a
4:52 new service layer has been implemented on the service side with a new job
4:56 service which will now allow alerts to trigger emails independent of the
5:00 business one client at any time a predefined is apt since when user called
5:06 alert service will be used by default to send internal messages or trigger the
5:11 essay people since one mailer to send email so now you have the ability to
5:16 receive alert anytime whenever they occur to meet your business to man the
5:22 relationship map feature is now available for the Human Resources model
5:26 representing employees masturbator you can now view your employees in a
5:32 hierarchy structure as an organizational challenge or broken down into teams in
5:37 roles so now you can easily visualize human resources related data and it
5:43 provides a visual overview of employees teams their positions and your company
5:48 organization in number about the topics under administration include for example
5:55 the update to the approval procedure process sometimes a document that has
6:00 already been approved
6:01 needs to be updated if the user requires approval to update the document the
6:07 approval process will now be initiated against to approve any changes made
6:11 prior to adding the document to the system
6:13 import from Excel now supports the following data types from Microsoft
6:18 Excel interesting people since one it supports priceless and business partner
6:23 catalog numbers you can now use the Enter key on the numeric keypad as the
6:29 Tab key to move between fields in BC
6:32 one for faster data entry to license mechanism has also been updated it now
6:37 prevents users from logging into the same company but the same use occurred
6:41 which is already logged in
6:43 indirect users and browser access you can either cancel your log on or confirm
6:49 you love on which will lock out the other user using the same user account
6:52 the license server based on HTTPS is now fully integrated into the system
7:00 landscape directory and what this means is there's no additional license file
7:05 required on Thur service which will now support high availability landscape
7:10 environment we have a number of key topics to highlight under financial
7:15 management we have now aligned postings of journal entries with marketing
7:22 documents so rose for the same journal ledger accounts are not grouped in a
7:27 journal entry one row in a journal entries now linked to one row in a
7:31 marking document adding a visible reference for users this provides an
7:36 unambiguous reference to document rose from general rose it also provides the
7:41 basis for more detailed reporting there are also a number of IFRS enhancements
7:49 that are implemented to support revenue recognition at point of sale in the
7:53 buyer takes over the ownership of goods revenue can be recognized if it is
7:58 relatively certain that the company will receive payment for the goods sold with
8:02 now activated
8:04 matching principled stand at the correct revenue recognition we've also maximized
8:09 the number of charter account levels up to ten levels and all of these levels
8:13 can be used for posting you also have the ability to rename your chart of
8:18 account draws and these will be reflected across the system and all your
8:21 reports enabling matching principles allows correct revenue recognition in
8:27 order to comply with standard accounting principles for example it supports
8:32 business case if salt goods are delivered at the end of the period and
8:36 enforced at the beginning of the next period and enhancements to the chart of
8:40 accounts provides greater flexibility to create a chart of accounts according to
8:44 relevant business
8:45 needs fixed assets in version 9.2 introduces the virtual fixed asset
8:54 concept when a company purchases identical assets in large quantities
8:58 this functionality can be used to automatically create fixed asset master
9:03 data records each of the a Sept serial number enforcement has also been enabled
9:08 to save time and effort this will promote fast processing of large
9:13 quantities of fixed assets that share the same properties a new authorization
9:20 has been added for better control over chicks for payment when creating checks
9:25 for payment manually create journalist she feels checked automatically and only
9:30 authorized users can uncheck this this will avoid any fraud in relation to
9:35 misusing outgoing checks and provide greater control over user authorizations
9:40 to create print update and also designed check later several other topics under
9:47 financial management include third party chicks you can now select an indoor
9:52 school third party check as an outgoing payment as a payment means instead of
9:57 endorsing the check by creating and then you'll journal entry there have been a
10:02 number of updates to posting scheme is for manufacturing you can now choose
10:06 between two posting steamers for manufacturing accounting with balance
10:10 sheet accounts only or accounting with balance sheet accounts and profit and
10:14 loss accounts with business partner opening balances you can now define the
10:21 control account used for posting opening balance transactions each business
10:26 partner and lastly as a people since 19 point to the gym for ACP Henne has
10:31 enhanced its external reconciliation feature for optimized performance let me
10:39 now introduce you to the new project management capabilities in SA BB since
10:43 one release 9.2 per ticket information in ASAP business one was limited to
10:50 financial data to complement ASAP business once existing project based
10:55 features we have rolled out additional project management function
10:58 Ella T now combined into one solution we have centralized all project related
11:04 transactions documents resources and activities making it much easier to
11:10 track and manage the different tasks stages or phases of a project from start
11:14 to finish
11:16 centralization of project data allows you to more easily analyze budget and
11:21 costs and generate reports relating to all aspects of your projects providing
11:25 greater transparency and thus making better informed decisions
11:32 it's now move on to sales purchasing and service updates in previous releases
11:38 uses could decide whether to reopen an item quantity in the original document
11:43 or not when creating a return a good return or a credit memo this behavior
11:49 has simply been extended to support scenarios where a user copies in order
11:54 to reserve invoice and then credit users can now decide whether to reopen the
11:59 item quantity in the original document and it supports real business scenarios
12:04 campaign management you can now create and manage campaigns for vandals and
12:11 campaign management this provides another channel of communication with
12:15 your vendors
12:16 any news letter or email type campaigns it can also be used to tend to purchase
12:22 quotations to multiple vendors for specific products for example you can
12:27 also run saved or existing campaigns repeatedly without having to create a
12:32 new campaign which should save time and effort for campaigns around on a regular
12:36 basis
12:39 service module has been extended in release 9.2 support been doors so now
12:45 you can leverage the service module for vendor related service requirements also
12:50 the business partner details are now visible from the service call window
12:53 capturing relevant business partner information enabling better efficiency
12:57 and service corps planning and finally ASAP business one 9.2 now provides you
13:05 with the option to define a freight amount that includes tax according to
13:09 your business requirements
13:10 I would now like to share with you a number of key tools for effective
13:15 business intelligence in this apt since 19 point to version for a city Hanna
13:20 Hanna model content has been enhanced including new romantic places you have
13:28 used for opportunities sales quotations sales analysis purchase analysis in
13:33 inventory have been introduced these views can now be used to analyze your
13:38 business and create additional dashboard and KPI's in addition six new predefined
13:43 KPI's have been delivered and can be used out of the box too pervasive
13:49 dashboard has also been enhanced using evasive analytics designer you can now
13:55 slice corresponding measure bellies from one access in comparison to the existing
14:00 dimension that slices corresponding mission values from the other access or
14:05 so in dashboard with one date type dimension you can now use the new
14:10 function of a time slider for a clear view of trends the pervasive dashboard
14:15 now supports more calculations types such as cumulative sound minimum maximum
14:20 and count and these new options will allow you to build more powerful
14:25 dashboards to better analyze your data the interactive Analysis Report Designer
14:32 is a Microsoft excel-based analytics and reporting tool based on Microsoft Excel
14:38 plugin and utilizes ASAP business one hand if you use this data sources it
14:43 gives users more flexibility to manipulate reports in excel providing a
14:48 few for better decision-making outcomes intelligent forecast is a new tool which
14:55 utilizes the power of ASAP henna to calculate future demand it uses
15:00 algorithms of the ASAP henner predictive analysis library to forecast demands
15:05 incorporating trends and seasonal factors so now you can manually adjust
15:09 at leas and use hind cast to find the best forecast the forecast result can
15:16 then be used later to optimize an impact here an intelligent forecast ultimately
15:20 allows you to make better decisions as a result of flexible forecasting and do
15:25 what if type analysis highlights under inventory distribution include the
15:32 following a prices update with it
15:36 maintaining price update has become much simpler and easier using the new prices
15:41 update visit it allows you to update item processing price lists efficiently
15:45 and in bulk
15:47 you can even convert prices into other currencies a new simulation married
15:51 shows you all of the suggested changes before you decide to commute and execute
15:55 the abject this price list update with it can save a lot of time if your
16:00 company needs frequent pressing updates across a large number of items and
16:04 priceless been locations can now be restricted to contain certain units of
16:11 measure only
16:12 each pin location you can now define whether to allow only a specific unit
16:17 Amisha a specific unit admission group or a single unit of measure or a single
16:22 unit of measure group and once restriction has been defined the
16:27 transaction to post goods will offer only allowed in locations to the user to
16:32 choose from
16:32 unit of measure restriction in bill locations help companies to utilize this
16:37 storage more efficiently enhanced
16:41 compact miniature version 9.2 is a one-stop-shop to handling production
16:46 orders in a basic production environment the new selection criteria allows you to
16:51 select only items or only resources or both in one transaction in the pic
16:56 impact manager itself we can now issue individual rows for production this adds
17:01 more flexibility in handling production requirements release 9.2 will no longer
17:08 allow updates to prices for standard value items in the Item Master Data the
17:14 only option to updated item cost is to use inventory revaluation the reason
17:19 behind this is to ensure an impeccable or a child when it comes to revaluing
17:23 standard items it also promotes greater control and visibility in tracking
17:28 inventory costs
17:32 last but not least inventory accounting documents can now be previewed or
17:37 printed before adding these documents to the system and we've also made updates
17:42 to inventory posting an inventory opening balances for items managed by
17:46 serial patch valuation method variances in our valued on a serious level as
17:52 opposed to be in a warehouse level it's now move on to our updates to the MIP
17:58 and production modules the material resource planning module has been
18:05 enhanced with a number of updates to the MRP we sit under the items list
18:09 selection criteria window there is a new expanded selection criteria enabling you
18:14 to choose a preferred vendor and user-defined fields for items you can
18:19 also view more item details such as item master data variables that may impact
18:24 the MRP ran this provides greater flexibility to be more specific with
18:29 your item selection and easily manipulate master data variables to
18:33 support your image peace now after you can then later easily revert back to the
18:38 default variables at a later stage when rerunning a saved scenario forecasting
18:46 in release 9.2 allows you to create to maintain forecast for items per
18:51 warehouse forecasting items on a warehouse level enables you to select
18:56 sales orders according to relevant warehouses allowing greater control over
19:01 your forecast demand you also have the ability to select multiple rows which
19:06 now makes it easy to delete row items or manage the increase or decrease secure
19:11 forecast percentage across multiple items rose as well
19:17 production standard cost key components of this enhancement include the
19:22 introduction of resource functionality enabling basic production capacity
19:26 management monitoring complete standard production costing and analysis of real
19:32 production variances and simplification of billet material management providing
19:38 greater flexibility with the use of production orders we can now define a
19:43 production standard cost in Item Master Data this can be used as budget costs
19:48 enabling cost comparisons between standard an actual costings offer
19:52 production variance analysis the bill of materials window has two new columns
19:57 with standard production costs and the total cost could be displayed the second
20:04 update to the production module in version 9.2 is the introduction of roe
20:08 levels dates we can now define start and end dates for all components and
20:13 resources in a production order in earlier versions it was only possible to
20:18 find dates on the document header level which meant that there was no option to
20:22 email components and resources exactly in the date required for all very little
20:27 date have to be with you
20:28 the head level dates when changing the hit a little started in dates there is
20:33 an option to update all very little dates according to this and all dates to
20:37 find on the production order itself there's no separate table the resource
20:41 capacity window can also be used to monitor resource in component
20:46 consumption and availability
20:48 there are four different allocation methods on start date on in date
20:52 startdate forwards and backwards and this will enable you to more easily plan
20:57 allocation of item and/or resources for all your production requirements makes
21:05 no highlights several lifecycle management and support features two ASAP
21:09 business 19 point to simply
21:14 of the installation and upgrade process focused on the installation with it and
21:19 the average visit which announced merged into one set up with it you can now
21:23 easily use the set up with a diploma both installation and an upgrade easily
21:27 the structure of the assay people since one product package has also been
21:32 simplified but police night that the democratic basis that are available are
21:36 only available in the installation package itself the logging and tracing
21:42 mechanism has also been changed to include a storage centralization and
21:47 other unification 'he's in addition to new logging and chasing objects
21:51 additional information is added to the Microsoft sequel Servat race to help
21:55 identify ASAP business one operations at trigger respective transact secret
22:00 statements or so we can focus settings you can now enable full looking to
22:05 record locked messages of also verities that the ASAP business one client one
22:11 single click is required to enable or disable for locking you no longer need
22:15 to restart the SOP business one client after changing the longest settings
22:20 there have been a number of changes to Hannah server components and the setup
22:26 wizard which include funding changes you also have free selection of local
22:31 addresses so if you install ASAP business one server components on a
22:35 Linux server with more than one network interface you can decide which IP
22:39 address to use you can also use the hostname to reach to the components in
22:45 reconfiguration mode you can use the setup script to configure an existing
22:50 installation configurable settings include the data base address the
22:54 database user service port and so on
22:57 invalidation mode of validation is performed upon the finish of an
23:01 installation upgrade or reconfiguration and you can also use the setup script
23:06 manually perform validation and check it ASAP business want components are
23:10 working accordingly the remote support platform protects your ASAP business one
23:16 installation by monitoring customers environments and providing automated in
23:21 remote support with the remote support platform 3.2 we have delivered a new
23:26 technical user to connect with the new ASAP back in system in order to
23:31 communicate with this aP's new backend a technique to use the technical data
23:36 transfer authorization must be configured in the remote support
23:39 platform this new technique for user enhances security as it is designed for
23:44 data transfer only it also minimizes maintenance effort as its password
23:49 doesn't need to be changed as often and it is also currently free of charge
23:54 partners can now use the remote support platforms Judy are to develop support
23:59 tasks delivered task to customers and manage tasks for different customer
24:04 installations in the remote support platform studio 3.2 partners are now
24:09 able to manage customer landscapes formerly including distribution of tasks
24:13 and adjust the schedule of SOP tasks based on their customers needs these
24:19 features were formerly available through the remote support platform remote
24:23 console application which will be retired two partners now have control
24:27 over their partner is a pic tasks for the customers in one single place the
24:32 RSP studio which would ultimately promoting reduced maintenance downtime
24:36 there might support platform 3.2 has synchronized its landscape with the
24:43 system landscape directory resulting in a much simpler configuration and setup
24:47 versus so any landscape changes performed in the system landscape
24:51 directory at a customer site automatically replicated the remote
24:55 support platform configuration and setup is now much easier and the snow
24:59 disruption of remote support platform results in the event of any landscape
25:04 changes for example if you're exchanging your database server or there's a
25:08 password change the remote support platform 3.2 now supports healing tasks
25:14 for ASAP henna data bases and the ability to schedule and backup instances
25:19 of ASAP Hannah data bases
25:22 ASAP henna data bases can leverage the healing task to leave it from the remote
25:26 support platform 3.2 to resolve any potential issues easily and scheduling
25:31 regular backups of the SOP henna data base and deleting all backups
25:35 automatically saves maintenance time and ultimately provides a higher level of
25:40 automation we now having new on premise support use the on premise support user
25:48 a function already available for SOP business one cloud is a predefined user
25:53 in ASAP business one which gives you the ability for partners to access the
25:58 customer system without needing an additional license to support user can
26:03 only be used when the remote support platform is activated and a system
26:07 status report has been uploaded within the last 7 days
26:11 the support users guarantee no disruption of business for customers as
26:15 no regular is forced to logout finally we're going to take a look at several
26:22 platforms and extensibility topics for release 9.2 browser access offers simple
26:30 remote access for on-premises customers ultimately lowering the overall total
26:35 cost of ownership with no need for a remote desktop connection and
26:39 corresponding license for most uses no client upgrades means simply lifecycle
26:45 management
26:45 minimized ecosystem if it you can securely access ASAP business one from
26:51 any location with a compatible browser instead of using the existing remote
26:58 access fire a remote desktop service or Citrix browser access is only accessible
27:04 through a web browser and leverages the browser access dispatcher to start an
27:08 essay papers as one client session in web UI servanthood using specific stop
27:14 parameters to the ASAP businessman client this will display the ASAP
27:19 business phone user interface not through the underlying operating system
27:22 but through a web interface engine which will
27:25 render the user interface in html5 format to be consumed by supported web
27:30 browsers updates to user-defined fields and system tables when adding used to
27:38 fund field to an SOP business one table you can now link it to a system table
27:43 which allows you to create new and flexible business scenarios to this no
27:47 additional need to feel the user-defined fields manually or retrieve it from
27:52 existing master data and have to keep it in sync now with direct access to the
27:57 system object the data is consistent and its integrity is maintained as there is
28:02 only one single source of the truth this user defined Fiat several additional
28:08 enhancements to use it fun tables objects and fields include for example
28:12 the increase of user-defined table and user-defined field links for
28:17 user-defined objects form size settings are stored in forms are resized and/or
28:23 moved the system will remember these settings on the next login with user
28:27 defined tables the user-defined table setup window has provided a new object
28:32 type no object with auto increment has been added in the drop-down list of the
28:38 object type field when you apply this type the application creates a
28:42 user-defined table with two fields code and name the code field is order
28:47 increasing therefore there's no need for manual input by the user
28:51 we now have to use of the mobile phones feature in the UI API also performance
29:00 has been improved for loading dock to increase for data tables in the UI API a
29:06 new optional filter type of item is added if you use this filter will ensure
29:11 that only events from the white listed items that also match the event types
29:15 and forms filters will be passed the SDK in addition di API functions related to
29:21 the resources module are now available
29:27 highlighted some of the key features of ASAP business one release 9.2 giving you
29:31 the power to run your business simply anytime anywhere so check out ASAP
29:37 presents one 9.2 today