Digital Equipment and SAP AG form strategic partnership to focus on the process industry.WALLDORF, Germany and MAYNARD, Mass. --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 13, 1995--SAP AG, the world's leading provider of client/server business applications, today announced a strategic partnership with Digital Equipment Corp. to dedicate combined resources to the process industry. To serve the specific needs of this market, Digital has formed a team of over 100 worldwide consultants with extensive knowledge in the process areas of pharmaceutical, chemical, consumer packaged goods Noun 1. packaged goods - groceries that are packaged for sale foodstuff, grocery - (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one , semi-conductor and oil (specialty lubricants and chemical divisions) industries. The alliance is dedicated to providing services for the complex requirements of process industry customers. "This partnership will allow Digital and SAP to further solidify our strong position in the process industry. By uniting with industry and technology specialists we can develop the focused solutions that our customers are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. , and increased support by providing more consultants with specific industry know-how," explains Paul Wahl, International Marketing Director for 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. . The SAP/Digital relationship in the process industry began with the CAPISCE CAPISCE Computer Architecture for Production Information Systems in a Competitive Environment (Computer Architecture for Production Information Systems in a Competitive Environment) project. CAPISCE is a consortium of various companies - SAP, Digital, ICI/Zeneca, IDS Prof. Scheer GmbH and Institut fur Wirtschaftinformatik - which was established to combine applications development and practical industry knowledge in order to develop general purpose architecture that satisfies chemical producers' demands for flexible response to market changes. SAP's contribution is its R/3 module called PP-PI (Production Planning Production planning The function of a manufacturing enterprise responsible for the efficient planning, scheduling, and coordination of all production activities. - Industries) while Digital provided PDAS PDAS Public Domain Aeronautical Software PDAS Plant Data Acquisition System PDAS PCS Data Access Service (Telcordia) PDAS Personnel Data Access System (Process Data Acquisition System), the first third-party solution certified by SAP. PDAS integrates the execution planned by PP-PI to the automation, control equipment, and complementary solutions typically found in the process manufacturing The manufacturing industry that uses process control systems. See process control. execution environment. In addition to the consultants dedicated to PP-PI, Digital will utilize existing resources to provide PDAS consultancy. Paul van der Spiegel Der Spiegel (The Mirror) is Europe's biggest and most influential weekly magazine, published in Hamburg, with a circulation of more than one million per week, having a readership of an estimated 6.5 million. , vice president Systems Integration, Digital Europe, explains, "Our alliance support to customers is even greater with this agreement because together we can expand our range of focused solutions for this specific vertical industry. The CAPISCE project has shown the impact that dedicated resources have on industry specific technology. SAP, Digital and the end customer will benefit from the strong alliances and complementary network of resources and solutions available via the strong association of each partner in the process industries." The CAPISCE Project pilot at Zeneca Chemicals, Europe's largest chemical manufacturer, show quantitative benefits: Off-specification batchwork Down 50% Raw materials stocks Down 50% Clerical activity supporting manufacturing Down 50% Production lead times Down 25% SAP and Digital are now engaged in additional pilots for both PP-PI and PDAS with customers across the process industries, in both Europe and the U.S. About SAP SAP provides flexible, integrated client/server and mainframe-based business applications software that is compatible with most popular hardware, software and database platforms. More than 4,300 companies in 41 countries use SAP software to manage complex financial, manufacturing, sales and human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. requirements. Founded in 1972, SAP AG is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany and employs a workforce of over 5,000 worldwide. SAP America is comprised of its corporate headquarters in Philadelphia, a Technology Development Center in Foster City, Calif., and sales and support offices 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. . About Digital Digital Equipment is the world's leader in open client/server solutions from personal computing to integrated worldwide information systems. Digital's scalable Alpha platforms, storage, networking, software and services, together with industry-focused solutions from business partners, help organizations compete and win in today's global marketspace  This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject.Please help recruit one or [ improve this article] yourself. See the talk page for details. . Digital's Systems Integration provides solutions which align technology in support of customer's business needs by integrating Digital and third-party technologies, applications and industry domains. The core competencies of Digital's Systems Integration are Information Technology Consulting Information technology consulting (IT consulting or business and technology services) is a field that focuses on advising businesses on how best to use information technology to meet their business objectives. , Applications and Data Integration and Integrating Systems. CONTACT: SAP America Peg Culotta, 610/521-4500 or Digital Equipment Corp. Peter Rhodes, 416/730-7035 |
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