Enigma and SAP Announce Plans to Integrate Products.Business/Technology Editors TOULOUSE, France and WALLDORF, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 13, 2000 -- Enigma's Xtend and CommerceSight Solutions Together With mySAP.com(TM)Automate the Aerospace MRO MRO In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Mauritanian Ouguiya. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. Process to Deliver Enhanced Productivity -- Enigma Inc., the leading provider of B2B e-commerce (Business to Business Electronic-COMMERCE) Refers to one business selling to another business via the Web. See e-commerce. for spare parts Spare parts, also referred to as Service Parts is a term used to indicate extra parts available and in proximity to the mechanical item, such as a automobile, boat, engine, for which they might be used. Spare parts are also called “spares. and aftermarket support, and 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 leading provider of inter-enterprise software solutions, today announced plans to seamlessly link Enigma's product with mySAP.com(TM) Internet business solutions from SAP, the market leader of inter-enterprise software solutions. The companies plan to complement mySAP.com solutions for aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul or MRO is a multi-billion dollar industry which works on international authorization rules to deliver a safe airline operation and to assure reliability and availability of customer fleets. (MRO) and aerospace & defense e-business with Enigma's technical information and illustrated parts catalog Noun 1. parts catalog - a list advertising parts for machinery along with prices parts catalogue catalogue, catalog - a complete list of things; usually arranged systematically; "it does not pretend to be a catalog of his achievements" (IPC (1) (InterProcess Communication) The exchange of data between one program and another either within the same computer or over a network. It implies a protocol that guarantees a response to a request. ) system. Customers using the solution from Enigma and SAP will benefit from increased MRO efficiency and decreased turn-around-time for aircraft and engine repair and maintenance, critical for growing aftermarket service businesses and increasing profits for airlines. Important productivity features include: the ability to check inventory from within the customized OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and IPC; automatic purchase requisition As part of an organization's internal financial controls, the accounting department may institute a purchase requisition process to help manage requests for purchases. Requests for the creation of purchase of goods and services are documented and routed for approval within the generation; electronic customization of the OEM manuals with EOs and COCs; and the capability to browse through the OEM electronic manuals from any part of the mySAP.com solution. For OEMs the combined solution will help accelerate spare parts sales and service by tying the delivery of technical information including service bulletins to customers' maintenance operations. Nils Herzberg, Vice President of the SAP Industry Business Unit for Aerospace & Defense, said: "The mySAP.com Workplace brings the power of SAP(TM) functionality right to the end user's desktop. By making the Enigma e-publication and e-catalog directly accessible through mySAP.com, we are delivering enhanced access to information to SAP users. Our partnership with Enigma supports our commitment to deliver complete solutions for our MRO customers." "We believe that integrating enterprise planning solutions with OEM technical content will propel the MRO business," said Nathan Shuchami, Vice President of Aerospace at Enigma. "The capability of a maintenance technician to research and view required parts in the OEM electronic IPC, locate them in inventory and purchase them, all within one system, will provide tremendous productivity benefits for both the MROs and for their airline customers." The charter project for the companies will be the integration of the SAP MRO Inspection Workbench with Web-based maintenance manuals, illustrated parts catalogs and service bulletins delivered using Enigma's technology. The Workbench is being developed in the SAP Industry Solution for Aerospace & Defense. Its purpose is to support the inspection and parts disposition process; it will provide intelligent configuration control between as-maintained data for aircraft and engines against master parts list data based on OEM IPC information. Both companies will support this development. Specialists from both companies will also determine other points of integration with mySAP.com. In the short-term, Enigma's catalog technology will be used as part of the mySAP.com buying solution (SAP Business-to-Business Procurement(TM)) and mySAP.com selling solution (SAP Online Store). Enigma and SAP will demonstrate proofs of concept that seamlessly link Enigma technical information and e-commerce solutions with mySAP.com at various industry events, including the e-Business for Aerospace meeting in Toulouse this week, and upcoming SAPPHIRE(R) conferences in Germany and the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Enigma's open XML/XSL architecture for illustrated parts catalogs enables rapid integration into mySAP.com for MRO parts provisioning and procurement. Enigma's electronic illustrated parts catalog (eIPC) can serve as the parts lookup system for determining the part required for a particular repair procedure. The eIPC is e-commerce enabled, and can serve as the basis for parts ordering. Because most of the world's airlines and overhaul facilities are using Enigma e-publications and e-catalogs delivered by major engine OEMs, integration with SAP lets operators further leverage the investment made by their suppliers and tightens the information chain between buyers and sellers. About Enigma Enigma, Inc. leads the market in content-driven B2B e-commerce for spare parts and aftermarket support. The company's newly announced ESP (1) (Enhanced Service Provider) An organization that adds value to basic telephone service by offering such features as call-forwarding, call-detailing and protocol conversion. architecture, which includes CommerceSight for high-value B2B e-commerce, emphasizes Enigma's commitment to continued development in the area of vertical exchanges. Typical applications of Enigma technology include e-commerce sites, e-catalogs, illustrated parts catalogs, IETMs, and self-service product support. Enigma's rapidly expanding list of customers includes GE Aircraft Engines, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce, Bombardier Aerospace Bombardier Aerospace is a division of the Bombardier group, with the third largest workforce (behind Boeing and Airbus) and the fourth largest in yearly delivery of commercial airplanes (behind Boeing, Airbus and Embraer). , Hewlett-Packard, Ameritech, Lucent, Bell South, Nokia, Sybase, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , John Deere, Mack Trucks, Freightliner, Motorola, Cummins Engines and United Airlines. Enigma is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , headquartered in Burlington, Mass. with offices in San Francisco, London, Munich, Amsterdam, Toronto, Tokyo and Tel Aviv. For more information visit Enigma's World Wide Web site at http://www.enigma.com. About SAP As the market leader of inter-enterprise software solutions, SAP is leveraging its strength in industry-focused business software and the world's largest enterprise software customer base to deliver mySAP.com. mySAP.com provides an open collaborative business environment of personalized solutions on demand. This enables companies of all sizes and industries to fully engage their employees, customers and partners to capitalize upon the new Internet economy. mySAP.com allows people to harness the power of the Internet to work smarter, better and faster by optimizing supply chains, managing strategic relationships, reducing time to market, sharing virtual information, and increasing productivity and shareholder value. SAP is listed on several exchanges including the Frankfurt stock exchange Frankfurt Stock Exchange The largest of Germany's eight securities exchanges, operated by Deutsche Borse AS. and NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "SAP." The SAP World Wide Web site can be found at http://www.sap.com. SAP, mySAP.com, SAP Business-to-Business Procurement, R/3 and all SAP product and service names herein are registered or unregistered trademarks of SAP AG. Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. (c)Copyright 2000 Enigma, Inc. and SAP AG. All rights reserved. |
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