Your business is unique. And while your SAP ERP system covers a wide range of your internal and business processes, there may be specific features unique to your organisation that you would like to see in your system but are currently missing.
Thanks to innovations such as SAP BTP, SAP Integration Suite, SAP Fiori and SAP UI5, SAP application development has become a truly strategic undertaking for some companies. Our SAP developer, Pierre, has summarised the situation for you.
The benefits of SAP application development
With the advent of SAP BTP, the era of specific developments directly in the ERP is over. Creating your own SAP applications is now the new, more agile way for companies to create the ERP that suits them best.
Opting for SAP application development means:
Benefit from customised applications
By developing your own SAP applications, you can simplify interfaces and tailor them to your company’s specific requirements.
Save your time
The current trend is towards automation and process optimisation. Never mind, a well-designed SAP application can free your teams from time-consuming and error-prone tasks specific to your organisation.
Optimise the user experience
Developing your own SAP applications can enable you to offer your users a user-friendly design that reflects your company’s branding.
Make savings
SAP solutions are billed per licence and therefore per number of users. By developing your own SAP application, you make an initial investment but avoid the annual SAP licence costs per user.
Being at the cutting edge of technology
Technological innovations are evolving at a rapid pace. SAP application development is a way to incorporate the latest innovations into your ERP without compromising your core ERP.
You have an SAP application development project. How do you proceed?
The project methodology used for SAP application development is similar to any SAP project implementation. It strictly follows the following five steps:
Example of a time tracking application developed by Sileron
Context of the time tracking application project developed by Sileron
As an information systems consulting firm, the core of our business is based on the time we devote to our clients and projects. That is why it is valuable for us to be able to track this concept of time accurately and in detail.
This is how the idea of developing our own time tracking tool came about, with the following objectives:
1- To improve time tracking and planning with a more accurate time scale
2- To be able to carry out the same tracking across all our international branches: United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Ivory Coast
3- To record this time tracking information directly in our SAP Business ByDesign ERP.
The project in summary:
| Number of users of the application | 80 users at Sileron |
| Scope of the project | Development of a time tracking application connected to our ERP via Odata API |
| Initial ERP | SAP Business ByDesign |
Sileron, your partner for the development of bespoke SAP applications
At Sileron, we have a team of eight experts dedicated to SAP development based in Tours. SAP application development, connector and API development, web development — our team supports you in all your SAP ECC, S/4HANA and SAP Business ByDesign ERP optimisation projects.
Ready-to-use solutions already available
Our team’s greatest strength is its proven experience with SAP solutions since 2005. So before you start developing an SAP application, consult us! The business solution you need may already exist in our Sileron ERP Customiser.
