Customizing SAP Business One - Comparing B1UP to SDK – Boyum Helpcenter

Automation and Ease of use vs. Expensive Resources

The Boyum Pack is rather like the iPad or iPhone of the SAP Business One market. The B1UP is the underlying platform, think of this as Apple solving the usability conundrum for phones and tablets. The B1UP makes SAP Business One a usable, intuitive place for the user to work, just as Apple made the iPhone and iPad immediately accessible and easy to control.

Now the customer wants to add features to SAP Business One, rather like an iPhone user would want to download an app. In the world of the Boyum Pack the equivalent of an “app” is a “module” – the customer can activate one or many modules and apply these to the Boyum Pack.

Customizing SAP Business One is not always a simple exercise and sometimes requires either the usage of the Software Development Kit (SDK) or the intervention of a technical consultant. B1UP saves the need for any complex developments and gives you the option to customize easily most of the forms and add the logic required by businesses. Sometimes even with just a right click.

With B1UP users can:

Tailor SAP Business One - Redesign SAP Business One screens and menus
Create new workflow and business rules on the fly
Save time and automate your work
Create easy access links inside and out of SAP Business One
Reduce errors - Make sure the right data is entered

B1UP allows all that without being a developer - you can do it yourself.

B1UP helps achieve a return on investment (ROI) in the shortest possible time. Return on investment does not just imply in terms of financial gain.

This document was created to compare the efforts needed for using B1UP vs. writing code and the entire process of checking and debugging it. The figures on this document are provided by developers external to B1UP who work for different partners in SAP Business One.

Here is a table which list number of common implementation requests:

Implementation Request	B1UP # Estimated Hours	Development # Estimated Hours
Setting up a mandatory field	5 min	1 hour
Validations triggered when a user leaved a header field	10 min	8 hours
Validation on line level to be triggered by leaving a filed or when reaching the end of the document	20 min	8 hours
Auto select batch numbers on Delivery according to expiry date	1 hour	12 hours
Configuring and setting up exchange rate	5 min	8 hours
Copy same batch number to all items in Goods receipt	2 hours	24 hours
Replace all open documents from one Sales Employee to another	0 min (B1UP includes a tool to manage that)	14 hours
Create a new tab on an existing document and place a report which includes any information including golden arrows shortcuts	1 hour	8 hours
Automatically add a shipping code, additional items, or any other document related logic based on specific rules	2 hours	24+ hours
Creating a shortcut to a webpage / skype / any other program	5 min	2 hours
Blocking the ability to add a document in certain condition	1 hour	9 hours
Automatically copying information from one document to another without user interference	30 min	6 hours
Do any other type of automation	30 min – 2 hours	4 -20+ hours
Update data in bulk (Like DTW)	0 min (B1UP includes a tool to manage that)	3 hours
Total (if a implements all requests)	7.75-9.25 hours	131+ hours

120+ hours are saved when using B1UP over SDK

General and Important notes
	B1UP	SDK
Upgrade	You upgrade
Documentation	Included – videos, pdf, help center and community
Samples with pre-configured common requirements	Included
Development knowledge	Not required	A must
Ease of changing a request	Anyone can change – just open the configuration window and modify with ease	In all cases they need to compile and install the add-on. For example, if a customer requested a validation in the reference in a marketing document an add-on is created, but if they want to add another validation they need to modify the code, compile and reinstall the add-on in the customer.

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