Fabien Cousteau, founder of Plant a Fish, an educational and ocean-restoration project in New York, has used online platforms to process web-based donations for his organization, which doesn't have the staff to open envelopes, deposit checks and organize spreadsheets.

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One customer, Kerstin Schilling, chief executive of Bestsidestory GmbH, an online marketing provider based in Leipzig, Germany, hesitated a year before committing to Web-based software from SAP, in part because the firm evoked fears of long project installations and high costs.

WSJ: Slow Start for SAP's Web-Based Software

It was a deception project where we created what appeared to be a bank front end, a Web-based front end where transactions were taking place.

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