SAP Crorporation announced a new version of Business One, its ERP suite for small companies, as it revs up the marketing strategy behind its Business ByDesign on-demand suite. Business One 8.82 features a range of improvements, including an expanded CRM  application that allows companies to develop and manage multichannel marketing programs. SAP has also added a number of capabilities to the systems MRP (material requirements planning) module, including a better wizard and improved forecasting functions.

Solution is is targeted at companies with 10 to 100 employees, while Business-All-in-One, which is essentially a packaged subset of SAP's Business Suite enterprise product, is aimed at companies with 1,000 to 2,500 workers. Both are available in hosted or on-premises form.