SAP BBD EDUCATION PROJECT PILOTED
Getting universities and colleges to use your product in classrooms has been viewed as a good way to spread the product message. And SAP is piloting a project that incorporates the newly launched Business ByDesign into the curriculum of those facilities that are part of the SAP University Alliance. Eighteen universities in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany and England are participating in the pilot and receive pre-configured, country-specific versions of feature pack 2.5.
The pilot is based on an internal reference company and one of the program's goals is to collect feedback about the feature pack. Long-delayed in reaching the market in usable form, the Internet-based BBD made it to the outside world in volume in August. Despite the fact that it is a channel product, SAP has not spent much time discussing resellers that have signed on although it has given a great deal of detail about how it is going about enlarging the channel and making the program rewarding quickly.
