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'Field-to-Fork' Food Safety Now Easier as TraceTracker's Global Traceability Network 'GTNet' Achieves 'Powered by SAP NetWeaver'R' ' Certification.


SAN RAFAEL San Rafael (săn rəfĕl`), residential city (1990 pop. 48,404), seat of Marin co., W Calif., a suburb of San Francisco on the northern shore of San Francisco Bay; inc. 1913. , Calif. -- AgPR - TraceTracker, the leader of Global Traceability Software Solutions, announces its Global Traceability Network (GTNet) has achieved "Powered by SAP NetWeaver(R)" certification. The integration of GTNet with the SAP AG (company) SAP AG - (Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung - German for "Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing") A company from Germany that sells the leading suite of client-server business software. The US branch is called SAP America.  (NYSE NYSE

See: New York Stock Exchange
:SAP) NetWeaver open integration and application platform will help food, beverage and life sciences companies to differentiate their products through continuous quality documentation, efficiently comply with increasing regulatory requirements, and to protect their brands through efficient recall capabilities.

An available standard connection to GTNet 2.6, now "Powered by SAP NetWeaver", provides reliable, transparent and real-time track and traceability along the value chains.

"A tailored service package of selected partners allows even faster ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). ," said Chairman and Founder of TraceTracker Mr. Knut Jorstad. "This certification helps ensure that customers using SAP(R) solutions and the SAP NetWeaver platform can further leverage GTNet to extend the value of their SAP solutions. Furthermore, it helps ensure that GTNet is seamlessly integrated with solutions from the world's leading provider of enterprise software solutions."

Following the certification, TraceTracker now offers a business package that integrates TT Navigator into the SAP NetWeaver Portal. The user can change themes, thus changing the look and feel of the product, and utilize Single Sign-On An identification system that lets users log into multiple Web sites on the Internet with one username and password. Single sign-on systems are also used within an enterprise, enabling users to access all authorized resources in the local network using the same username and password.  (SSO See single sign-on and CSO.

SSO - single sign-on
).

A business package has also been created for SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure to extract content from SAP ERP systems, transform it, and load it automatically into GTNet.

About TraceTracker

TraceTracker Innovation AS was founded in 2000 and is the world's leading software provider for global traceability solutions. In markets where food safety and consumer confidence are becoming ever more important, TraceTracker offers the Global Traceability Network (GTNet) - an online, decentralized de·cen·tral·ize  
v. de·cen·tral·ized, de·cen·tral·iz·ing, de·cen·tral·iz·es

v.tr.
1. To distribute the administrative functions or powers of (a central authority) among several local authorities.
 exchange of traceability information between independent players along the entire value chains. Connectivity to GTNet enables the food industry to comply with international traceability demands and to make traceability a competitive advantage - leaving the consumer with every reason to trust the food he or she eats.

TraceTracker has been chosen as the backbone information system in two major current EU traceability projects "Trace" involving BASF AG (NYSE:BF) and fish feed & farming companies and "Seafood Plus".

TraceTracker is in close cooperation with GS1 to ensure compliance with existing barcode and RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) A data collection technology that uses electronic tags for storing data. The tag, also known as an "electronic label," "transponder" or "code plate," is made up of an RFID chip attached to an antenna.  standards, and is an active member of the EPC (1) (Entertainment PC) See HTPC.

(2) (Electronic Product Code) A standard code for RFID tags administered by EPCglobal Inc. (www.epcglobalinc.org).
 Global Network Community.

TraceTracker has its headquarters in Heddesheim, Germany, and regional offices in Milan, Singapore, San Francisco, Tokyo and Oslo.

SAP, SAP NetWeaver and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries all over the world.

All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.
TraceTracker USA Inc
San Rafael, CA 94901

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