The Hanoi Times - Germany-based business software solutions provider, SAP, has launched its latest Business Suite 7 product and enterprise resource planning in the Vietnamese language version, saying it will help local businesses optimise performance and reduce IT costs.

The Business Suite 7, released o­n Thursday, is designed to ease upgrades and help customers reduce IT costs when upgrading or installing enhancement packages. A company release says it "introduces industry-rich value scenarios: end-to-end business processes that focus o­n industry-specific outcomes that span organisational boundaries and application silos."

In reducing total costs, the software delivers more than 150 functional innovations through enhancement packages and a synchronised release schedule for all applications.

Enhancement packages will allow customers to select and use o­nly the functions they need without having to upgrade their solutions, thus avoiding long implementation periods and disintegrated point solutions.

It also allows customer to gain deeper business insights that use analytic capabilities from its business objects portfolio. The ERP Vietnamese language version eliminates the language barrier and allows Vietnamese users to focus their time and resources o­n core business-critical tasks, the company says.

This enables easier access to global industry-proven best practices, thereby reducing the development cycle of Vietnamese companies so they can raise themselves up to international standards faster.