Manufacturers Come to Grips with SaaS Challenges

by Paul Tate

Posted on Jun 10, 2008

In early July, general manager Nick Lindhop hopes to unveil a set of tools that will drive an era of unprecedented growth at British specialist chemicals manufacturer Pentagon Chemicals Ltd. He will introduce an entirely new online, on-demand business platform across the €55 million ($85.5 million) company.

Pentagon, which produces base chemicals for the agribusiness and pharmaceutical intermediaries at two sites in the United Kingdom, will become one of the earliest European manufacturers to go live with SAP’s new Business by Design service — delivered almost entirely over the Internet as software-as-a-service (SaaS).