Acta Technology Releases New RapidMart for Human Resources; New Product Allows Companies to Rapidly Leverage ERP Data For Strategic Analysis.PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 8, 1999-- Acta Technology, Inc. (Acta(TM)), a leading provider of data warehousing solutions for both internal decision support and business-to-business eCommerce, has announced the first customer shipment of Acta HR (Human Resources) RapidMart(TM) for SAP R/3(TM) (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :SAP). The new data mart enables companies to use ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. (enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. ) data to make better decisions about their people and organizations. Designed to Address Today's HR Challenges Acta RapidMarts is a suite of pre-configured data warehouses for rapid deployment of business analysis in specific subject areas. "The HR RapidMart for SAP R/3 enables companies to respond to new challenges in human resource management," said Acta president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Carol Mills Baldwin. "As our 100-plus customers have taught us, the dynamic nature of today's organizations requires companies to respond quickly and decisively to numerous challenges -- market shifts, workforce shifts, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory requirements, competitive compensation and changes in benefit plans -- all while staying within fixed financial budgets. The HR RapidMart allows companies to leverage their investment in ERP to understand and address these critical challenges, while at the same time lowering administrative costs." RapidMarts are tightly integrated with SAP R/3. Unlike other data warehousing products, RapidMarts is a packaged solution for both extracting and analyzing key data locked away in ERP systems. The new RapidMart -- the company's fifth -- allows companies to capture and analyze current and historic HR data in subject areas such as personnel administration, organization deployment, and payroll and benefits. Managers can use KPI's (key performance indicators Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are financial and non-financial metrics used to quantify objectives to reflect strategic performance of an organization. KPIs are used in Business Intelligence to assess the present state of the business and to prescribe a course of action. ) across a variety of HR dimensions -- employees, benefit plans, EEO EEO Equal Employment Opportunity EEO Equal Employment Office EEO Eastern European Outreach (Murrieta, CA) EEO Extremely Elliptical Orbit EEO Exotic Electro-Optics, Inc. demographics -- with drill down access to detailed information on employees. The HR RapidMart also provides an environment for easy reporting and management by addressing specific challenges that ERP customers face when trying to gain insight into their HR information. The new RapidMart includes a data model for storing date-effective records for ease of reporting history, and a way to combine employee attributes with numeric information to understand the organization characteristics, like-groups and trends in HR. RapidMarts are powered by ActaWorks(TM), Acta's award-winning extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) The functions performed when pulling data out of one database and placing it into another of a different type. ETL is used to migrate data, often from relational databases into decision support systems. ) platform (DBMS (DataBase Management System) Software that controls the organization, storage, retrieval, security and integrity of data in a database. It accepts requests from the application and instructs the operating system to transfer the appropriate data. Magazine: Editor's Choice). Acta's industry-leading expertise in extracting and warehousing data from SAP and PeopleSoft (Nasdaq:PSFT PSFT PeopleSoft (stock symbol) PSFT Progressive Saturation Fourier Transform PSFT Prosoft-Technology, Inc ) has positioned the company as a leading vendor for packaged data mart solutions. Acta also sells RapidMart solutions for cost, sales, inventory, and AR/AP AR/AP Accounts Receivable/Accounts Payable (accounts receivable and payable). Competitive Advantage in a Tight Labor Market Customers can use the ActaWorks tool to customize the HR RapidMart for specific needs. For example, customers can integrate additional data from SAP, enrich the data with information from other operational systems, or load external data (for example, market research data on salaries). "With easy access to salary, payroll and benefits data, the new RapidMart will enable companies to stay competitive in a tight labor market," observed Mills Baldwin. About Acta Technology, Inc. Founded in 1996, Acta Technology, Inc. is a leading provider of data warehousing solutions for both internal decision support and business-to-business eCommerce. Acta's RapidMarts, a suite of pre-configured data warehouses for specific areas of business analysis, are powered by ActaWorks, an award-winning extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) platform. Acta recently announced Acta e2e(TM), a new architecture for integrating ERP and other back-office data with Web applications. Based on Acta's data warehousing products, e2e extends Acta's core technology beyond intra-company decision support to the eCommerce market. Acta Technology is an active member of the SAP Complementary Software Program (CSP (1) (Certified Systems Professional) An earlier award for successful completion of an ICCP examination in systems development. See ICCP. (2) (Commerce Service P ) and PeopleSoft Global Alliance Program. ActaWorks has been certified by PeopleSoft, and the Acta SAP BW interface has been certified by SAP. Acta customers include Chevron (NYSE:CHV CHV canine herpesvirus. ), Guinness, Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HWP), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Monsanto (NYSE:MTC mtc - A Modula-2 to C translator. ftp://rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/soft/Unixtools/compilerbau/mtc.tar.Z. ), Shell Chemical Company, and other Global 1000 companies. Acta is headquartered at 1001 Elwell Court, Palo Alto, CA 94303, and has international offices in London, Frankfurt, Paris, and Amersfoort (the Netherlands). Sales and partnership inquiries should be directed to Acta's toll-free phone number 1-888-613-3282. For more information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.acta.com. Note to Editors: Acta, ActaWorks, RapidMart, and e2e are trademarks of Acta Technology, Inc. All other product and company names mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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