SAP Business One Version 10 is now taking shape. In this article, we want to take a closer look at the new functions and improvements in the new version. What are the highlights? What core changes are planned? When can we expect a release?
- Intelligent ERP and process automation through elements such as machine learning and IoT
- Expansion of core functions and localization based on market feedback. Focus on wholesale / retail properties
- Focus on new user interface (UX), new styles
- Improvement of the web client with use of the service layer
- Expansion of analysis functions with HANA 2.0
- New integration framework 2.0 with additional scenarios
- Reuse of existing intelligent SAP technologies (invoice recognition, SAC depending on price tag, etc.)
- Improved requirements for the provision of cloud partners
Planned core processes and business logic
Functional improvements
- Interactive Gantt chart
- Service call printing and e-mail support
- Form settings for document printing
- Financial reports G/L account drilldown
- Improvements to the parts list
- Form for series and batch management
- Invoice support for arrears reserve
- Support for the attachment folder in additional documents
- Extended support for reference documents
- Translation table for print layouts
- Extension of the form settings for the article list
- Longer designation for BP, article groups and JE remarks
- Improvements to the booking period
- Address extensions
- Approvers have the option to update
- Effective deletion of internal documents
- Hierarchical master data (BPs, articles)
- Extended import from MS Excel
- Improvements in the Electronic Documents Framework
Improvements in user-friendliness
- Extended full-screen support
- Improving the user-friendliness of marketing documents
- New skin and UX improvements
- Support for 4k monitors
Planned highlights
Localizations
- Reporting
- Improve localizations
- Tax improvements
Reporting
- Integration into SAP's Advanced Compliance Reporting
- Renewal of SAP Crystal Reports content and SAC integration
Industry focus
- Registration for electronic money transactions
- Improvements to support retail and wholesale companies
Mobile
- Example scenarios for production / inventory
- Further improvements for the sales / service app
- Integration of SAP Field Service Management
Continuation of the web client
- Focus on sales processes using SAP HANA
- Expandable via service layer
Integration
- SAP Intercompany Integration Hub
- MS Office 365 (Word, Excel, and OneDrive)
- Productization of IoT example scenarios
Infrastructure & expandability
- Improvements to the cloud infrastructure and tools
- Improvement of DI / service layer coverage
- Introduction of API Hub
- Support of UDFs in additional tables
- Support for 64-bit / lightweight extensions
- Extension of UI tools
- Support for FMS multi trigger
Innovation
- Automated online banking connection
- Invoice recognition based on machine learning
- Use of the SAP HANA 2.0 platform
LCM & Support
- Integrated improvements in the reporting of events
- Logging and tracing (root cause analysis)
- One-click installer & reduced package size
- Optimized patch delivery cycle
Planned core processes and business logic
Functional improvements
With the Intercompany Integration Hub, the old, rather complicated B1 IF is to be further developed and significantly simplified.
Until now, integration has generally required a great deal of knowledge and high demands on processes/platforms and technical expertise.
The new Intercompany Integration Hub adds a new and simpler level, a kind of abstraction level, to B1iF 2.0.
This level significantly reduces the technical complexity so that consultants from partners or customers can create ready-made SAP integration scenarios in real time with just a few clicks, even without technical knowledge.
SAP’s customers and partners are now to be offered standard solutions that cover general and basic requirements but are easier to set up.
For the first available versions, the integration of some webshops (e.g. Shopify, Magento and the amazon marketplace), social networks, platforms for SMS and e-mail as well as logistics and service providers is planned. In addition, exchange rate imports (Fixer) and integration of CRM and SAP systems from third-party providers are to be offered.
- New way to integrate SAP Business One into almost any system
- Meets typical requirements for rapid digital integration in companies with multiple legal entities (e.g. sales and service units)
- Planned availability in 2019, gradual introduction planned from Q3
- Simple, new abstraction level in addition to B1iF 2.0
- Some scenarios are only available to customers of the Intercompany integration solution, others are free of charge. A 30-day trial version is planned.
SAP HANA 2.0: Multitenant Database Containers
In comparison with virtualization
SAP HANA 2.0 supports multiple isolated databases in a single SAP HANA system, i.e. multiple tenant databases. Each tenant database has its own users, its own persistence and its own configuration parameters.
Multitenant Database Containers
- Lower total cost of ownership (TCO), single software stack
- Central configuration & administration (database level)
- Direct management of database resources
- Optimized compound (performance benefits)
- Performance advantages (no virtualization effort)
- Licensed via SAP HANA
Virtualization
- Strong insulation
- Option for separate SAP HANA revisions
- Standard composite (SDA)
- Additional virtualization license (e.g. VMWARE)
