Andersen Consulting Adds to Its Global SAP Solution Center Network.PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 28, 1996-- Dallas Facility Houses Globally Networked SAP and Business Process Experts Andersen Consulting See Accenture. announced today the formal opening of its 16th globally networked SAP Solution Center. The new facility, in Dallas, enables the global management and technology firm to team with clients to reengineer their key processes and operations, and implement SAP's R/3TM solution to support these efforts. Texas-based Tenneco Business Services is one of the first companies to leverage the Dallas SAP Solution Center, located at Williams Square in the Dallas business community of Las Colinas Las Colinas is a developed area in the Dallas suburb of Irving, Texas. Due to its central location between Dallas and Fort Worth and its proximity to DFW Airport, Las Colinas has been a viable place in the Metroplex for corporate and business relocation. . Andersen Consulting is helping Tenneco Business Services, a shared services shared services, n.pl the administrative, clinical, or other service functions that are common to two or more hospitals or their health care facilities and used jointly or cooperatively by them. organization, use R/3 to deliver shared services such as accounting and information services See Information Systems. to Tenneco units throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . The Dallas SAP Solution Center, already operational for several months, will ultimately house more than 60 Andersen Consulting SAP experts assisting clients based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and around the world. "The Dallas SAP Solution Center empowers Andersen Consulting to deliver predictable, rapid business benefits to clients like Tenneco by providing leading-edge business process expertise, technology know-how, and deep industry knowledge," said Karl Newkirk, partner-in-charge of Andersen Consulting's SAP Business Organization, Americas. Newkirk also said the new facility better enables the global management and technology organization to deliver value to clients on a global scale because it is linked with the firm's network of 16 SAP Solution Centers, and relieves clients from completing all systems-related work on-site. The Dallas SAP Solution Center houses experienced consultant teams who provide remote system development and reengineering support worldwide through Andersen Consulting's Knowledge Xchange(r), an electronic information network that links the firm's 41,000 professionals at client sites worldwide. Through the Knowledge Xchange network, consultants leverage a repository (1) A database of information about applications software that includes author, data elements, inputs, processes, outputs and interrelationships. A repository is used in a CASE or application development system in order to identify objects and business rules for reuse. of international experience from Andersen Consulting client sites, to benefit clients presently in the process of executing enterprise-wide organizational change. The Dallas SAP Solution Center joins a network of global SAP Solution Centers housing application development environments and SAP application consultants, BASIS consultants, SAP systems administrators, ABAP/4(r) developers, and change management experts who work with Andersen Consulting project teams at client sites. The SAP Solution Centers are designed to develop and maintain client-specific SAP applications long-term. Andersen Consulting's global network of SAP Solution Centers includes locations in Cincinnati, Caracas, Chicago, Detroit, Frankfurt, Houston, London, Manila Manila (mənĭl`ə), city (1990 pop. 1,601,234), capital of the Philippines, SW Luzon, on Manila Bay. Manila is the center of the country's largest metropolitan area, its chief port, and the focus of all governmental, commercial, industrial, , Mexico City Mexico City Spanish Ciudad de México City (pop., 2000: city, 8,605,239; 2003 metro. area est., 18,660,000), capital of Mexico. Located at an elevation of 7,350 ft (2,240 m), it is officially coterminous with the Federal District, which occupies 571 sq mi , Palo Alto Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Philadelphia, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Tokyo and Toronto. About Andersen Consulting Andersen Consulting has nearly 3,000 SAP-dedicated consultants worldwide, including professionals with specific experience in strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. , change management, technology planning, and business functions such as logistics and manufacturing. These resources provide clients with the expertise to successfully accomplish major process and organizational change. Andersen Consulting is a $4.22 billion global management and technology consulting organization whose mission is to help its clients change to be more successful. The organization works with clients from a wide range of industries to link their people, processes and technologies to their strategies. Andersen Consulting has more than 41,000 persons in 47 countries. R/3 is a trademark of 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. CONTACT: Timothy B. Blair Andersen Consulting 312-507-5133 timothy.b.blair@ac.com or Rebecca L. Hayne Andersen Consulting 312-507-7063 rebecca.l.hayne@ac.com |
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