Updated: SAP on Wednesday confirmed a delay in its Business ByDesign software as a service suite. The company said: Since last September’s announcement of SAP Business ByDesign, the Company has been working closely with early customers and partners to validate and fine-tune the solution. As a result of this process, SAP has elected to modify the rollout strategy for SAP Business ByDesign to ensure a more focused and controlled ramp-up process. That roughly means that Business ByDesign is being delayed. Reports began leaking out about the delay earlier this week. Key points: The SAP Business ByDesign 2008 debut will focus on six countries, where all the current productive early customers are based. Additional country rollouts in 2009. It is expected...