From Zero to One Million Licensed Users in a Year Proves Success of mySAP.com; European SAPPHIRE 2000 Show Highlights SAP Internet Leadership in Delivery to Customers.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers SAPPHIRE 2000 BERLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 24, 2000 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), the leading provider of inter-enterprise software solutions, today welcomed 10,000 people to its sold-out European customer conference, SAPPHIRE(R) 2000 Berlin. The conference caps a year of tremendous momentum for mySAP.com(TM), which has rapidly amassed more than 1 million licensed users since it was originally introduced at the European SAPPHIRE show last May in Nice, France, and began shipping to first customers last fall. mySAP.com -- composed of business-to-business marketplaces, role-based portals, business applications and application hosting services -- enables customers to rapidly deploy an e-business environment. "The proof of the mySAP.com concept has always been in customer acceptance. Being able to deliver this solution to 1 million users in less than a year is an impressive achievement," said analyst Josh Greenbaum, principal of Enterprise Applications Consulting. "I fully expect this momentum to continue as more functionality and services emerge under the mySAP.com umbrella." To date, more than 400 companies have made the decision to leverage mySAP.com functionality, including ARP-Datacon, AUBI Baubeschlaege, Aventis Pharma AG, BASF AG BASF AG German chemical and plastics manufacturing company. Founded in 1865, BASF (the full German name means “Baden Aniline and Soda Factory”) was part of the chemical cartel IG Farben from 1925 until 1945, when the latter was dissolved by the Allies. , Bertelsmann AG Bertelsmann AG German media company. Beginning as a religious printer and publisher in 1835, the company grew steadily over the next century. Though virtually destroyed by Allied bombing in 1945, it recovered quickly after World War II. , Beyond.com, British Biotech British Biotech was a British based biotech company. British Biotechnology Limited was founded in 1986 by former G D Searle managers Keith McCullagh and Brian Richards, [1] Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Colgate-Palmolive Co., Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank AG (IPA: /'dɔɪ.tʃə/[1]) (ISIN: DE0005140008, NYSE: DB) (English: German Bank AG, Elfa, FAG Kuelgelfischer, FC Bayern Munchen, Fiducia AG, Grundig AG, Haier, Hella KG Hueck & Co., Hewlett-Packard Co., KoSa GmbH, Krupp Polysius AG, Lockheed Martin For the former company, see . Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. Corp., MLP (Meridian Lossless Packing) The compression technique used in DVD-Audio that provides the highest audio quality. It delivers two channels at 192 kHz with 24-bit samples or six channels at 96 kHz. Heidelberg, Neoforma.com, OSRAM SYLVANIA  It has been suggested that and be merged into this article or section. ()OSRAM SYLVANIA INC. , Schenker AG Schenker AG is a German logistics company and a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn, the German railway company. Within DB Logistics, the logistics branch of Deutsche Bahn, Schenker is responsible for land, sea, and air transport and contract logistics. , Schindler Holding Ltd., Solvay SA, Spotworld.com, TechSmart.com, Unilever HPC-E, Visteon Corp., Volvo Aero Corp. and Wuerth Japan. Momentum for mySAP.com In his keynote address keynote address n. An opening address, as at a political convention, that outlines the issues to be considered. Also called keynote speech. Noun 1. to launch the SAPPHIRE event, Hasso Plattner Hasso Plattner is a cofounder of software giant SAP AG. Today he's Chairman of the Supervisory Board of SAP AG. Biography Hasso Plattner (1944-01-21 – in Berlin) is a German entrepreneur. , co-chairman of the executive board 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. of SAP AG, outlined the successes to date with mySAP.com and its future. "SAP has done something really quite remarkable in a very short period of time," Plattner said. "It was only a year ago that we first announced mySAP.com as our far-reaching solution for collaborative, one-step e-business. Now we have more than 1 million licensed users. This is real-ware from which our customers are deriving value." Plattner further described a not-too-distant view of an interconnected e-business world that will require companies to develop and deploy "thousands of business relationships, perhaps hundreds of application components, heterogeneous technologies and multiple standards. The level of cooperation necessary among customers and across solution suppliers is unprecedented, and no single vendor can hope to develop everything that business customers will need." SAP is making rapid progress on all fronts in transforming the potential of the Internet into real business profits for customers. Among the major announcements at SAPPHIRE Berlin are an extended integration strategy, expanded support for early versions of SAP(TM) R/3(R) to make the transition to mySAP.com for existing SAP customers fast and easy, extensive new mySAP.com functionality that extends the SAP lead in e-business applications, and a new global partner program. After the first eight months of making mySAP.com available, SAP is now demonstrating significant momentum in not only delivering Internet-enabled applications to customers, but also helping them to gain real business advantage across all elements of mySAP.com. mySAP.com Marketplaces With the innovative one-step business of mySAP.com, buying and selling has become easier than ever. Six online marketplaces providing commerce, collaboration, content and community services are already operational, including http://www.mysap.com. Another 15 marketplaces are currently in development, including seven that are scheduled to go live by this July. Recently, SAP AG created a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. -- SAPMarkets -- to focus specifically on marketplace development. SAPMarkets and Deutsche Bank AG today announced they will form a joint venture to create and run emaro, an online global marketplace for office supplies Office supplies is the generic term that refers to all supplies regularly used in offices by businesses and other organizations, from private citizens to governments, who works with the collection, refinement, and output of information (colloquially referred to as "paper work"). , equipment and furniture (see related press release). Marketplaces from SAPMarkets enable customers to make dramatic gains in operating efficiency, achieve greater business velocity and reduce costs. Based on mySAP.com, Spotworld.com will be the first European business-to-business marketplace serving consumer product producers, suppliers, agents, wholesalers and retailers over the Internet. The Spotworld.com marketplace is being prelaunched at SAPPHIRE 2000 Berlin and will initially focus on market segments for toys and games, homes and kitchens, clothing and accessories, and sporting goods Noun 1. sporting goods - sports equipment sold as a commodity commodity, trade good, good - articles of commerce sports equipment - equipment needed to participate in a particular sport . "We chose mySAP.com as our platform and SAP as our technology partner because they were able to demonstrate superior breadth of e-business functionality, integration and ease of use we need to quickly develop our global marketplace," said CEO Carl-Greger Leijonhufvud at Spotworld.com. mySAP.com Workplace The mySAP.com Workplace is a one-stop, Web-based enterprise portal See corporate portal. that lets people access the applications, information and services needed for their job. Workplaces are personalized and customized role-based interfaces that increase employee productivity. Companies also can utilize the mySAP.com Workplace to create customer-, supplier- and partner-facing portals. The concept of the Workplace is now also being extended through the use of mobile devices to the mySAP.com Mobile Workplace, enabling users to conduct mobile commerce (m-commerce) and perform their jobs from any place and at any time. The mySAP.com Mobile Workplace extends the personalized, role-based functionality of the Workplace and delivers a wide range of business solutions to the mobile device of one's choice. Joachim Gallwas, senior director, Center of Competence, Aventis Pharma AG, noted the immediate productivity increases made possible by mySAP.com Workplace. "Using the mySAP.com Workplace, local applications that are linked with the global data warehouse and external sources can be integrated into one graphic user interface See GUI. ," Gallwas said. Aventis SA (NYSE:AVE) is a world leader in life sciences. Based in Strasbourg, France, the company employs around 95,000 people in more than 120 countries. mySAP.com Application Hosting More than 15,000 users are now accessing hosted mySAP.com solutions, a 50 percent increase since the end of 1999. Using hosted solutions, customers can obtain the latest mySAP.com Internet technology without having to worry about maintenance and upgrades, thus lowering total cost of ownership. Company resources can then be deployed where most needed. Delivered through certified partners or through the SAPHosting subsidiary, Internet-enabled application hosting services from SAP provide the expertise of an experienced hosting provider with the accessibility and control of an in-house operation. Services range from test-driving a mySAP.com solution to composing the complete package and from implementation to production hosting. "An application service provider (ASP) solution from eOnline allowed TechSmart.com to implement a full suite of SAP functionality in just 13 weeks," said Michael Beller, CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. , TechSmart.com. "This solution supports all areas of our click-and-mortar business and provides a foundation to support our future growth faster, cheaper and with lower risk than other alternatives." TechSmart.com is a leading business-to-business online auction house specializing in the asset recovery of pre-owned and office-leased computer and business technology. mySAP.com Business Applications Delivered through the role-based mySAP.com Workplace portal, mySAP.com business applications provide specific business functionality for 22 vertical industries. Each business solution can be subdivided into various application areas that describe the segments of a company's business. Supply Chain Management mySAP.com supply chain solutions leverage the SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer(TM) (SAP APO apo- 1 A prefix indicating a protein component in a conjugated molecule–eg, apoferritin, apolipoprotein, see there 2 Apolipoprotein, see there (TM)), which has more than 490 installations. Supply chain management with mySAP.com enables companies to manage the vital links in their supply chains to better respond to changing demands, inventories and supplies across an extended enterprise. Solutions consist of a number of integrated modules using a constraint-based planning and optimization philosophy such as those for demand planning and global available-to-promise, as well as management of storage, distribution and transportation processes. "The ability of SAP to add functionality and usability has exceeded our expectations," said Henk Sijbring, 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. manager, supply, at Unilever HPC-E. "We believe that mySAP.com supply chain solutions such as SAP APO will fully address our needs, and we also look forward to extending the functionality into areas such as collaborative planning with our suppliers and customers." Unilever HPC-E is a pan-European business that produces eight categories of home and personal care products. Every year, more than 3 billion consumer units are sold. Customer Relationship Management There are now more than 530 installations of SAP CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. (TM) components. In the wired world, success is increasingly about establishing and maintaining effective relationships. CRM with mySAP.com solutions facilitate relationships with suppliers, distributors, commerce service providers and customers that conduct business over the Internet to generate lifetime value for end customers and each other. "The designed integration and broad e-business functionality in mySAP.com fits perfectly with Colgate-Palmolive's business strategy of integrating our global supply chains, synchronizing synchronizing, n a technique that a therapist uses to coordinate his or her breath with that of the client; builds trust and establishes relationship. customer information across all our systems, and providing more personalized customer service," said Ed Toben, CIO at Colgate-Palmolive Co. "We consider SAP to be the clear leader in delivering robust, end-to-end Internet solutions with mySAP.com." Colgate-Palmolive Co. is a leading global consumer products company that sells its products in more than 200 countries and territories. E-Commerce Buying Solutions Installations of the mySAP.com component SAP Business-to-Business Procurement(TM) (SAP BBP BBP Bruto Binnenlands Product (Dutch) BBP Bauch-Beine-Po (workout) BBP Büyük Birlik Partisi (Turkish: Grand Unity Party) BBP Blood Borne Pathogen BBP Baseband Processor (TM)) have risen from 50 a year ago to 305 today -- a 610 percent increase. SAP BBP is a robust and proven business solution for requisitioning and purchasing nonproduction goods and services In economics, economic output is divided into physical goods and intangible services. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility (unless the "good" is a "bad"). It is often used when referring to a Goods and Services Tax. . SAP BBP enables open, full-cycle, inter-enterprise procurement from the desktops of corporate employees, resulting in dramatic cost reductions and much improved vendor management. Beyond.com is an e-commerce services provider that builds, manages and markets Web stores for businesses, and sells software and computer-related products to the government, corporate and consumer markets. The company's eStore division enables software publishers, hardware manufacturers and systems OEMs to launch a full-featured e-commerce store in a few weeks. Beyond.com has licensed elements of mySAP.com, including SAP Business-to-Business Procurement, to quickly achieve significant operational efficiency through the tight integration of front- and back-end processes. "We needed an Internet solution that could scale to the kind of growth we expect to see for our eStore Group in the coming year, and SAP with mySAP.com was best able to meet our requirements," said Gordon Jones, senior vice president and CIO of Beyond.com. "We also wanted a solution that would not only Web-enable our procurement processes, but give us better access to customer information and improve our efficiencies throughout the company. SAP has the functionality and integration expertise to help us accomplish this." E-Commerce Selling Solutions The selling solutions of mySAP.com have been delivered to more than 140 installations. mySAP.com Internet-based sales solutions are available in three forms: business-to-consumer (B2C (Business to Consumer) Refers to a business communicating with or selling to an individual rather than a company. See B2B. ), which includes support for one-to-one marketing, state-of-the-art multimedia capabilities, and the creation of online stores; business-to-business (B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business ), which allows business partners to sell to one another and takes account of existing contractual and pricing agreements; and business-to-reseller (B2R B2R Back to Reality ), which builds on the business-to-business scenario by providing enhanced functionality that helps strengthen relationships with company resellers in such areas as creating sales orders, checking order status and negotiating price protections. "When we decided to leverage the Internet as a strategic sales channel, we knew there was the potential for channel conflicts with resellers," said Mehrdad Laghaeian, vice president of Information Technologies, OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc., USA. "With the Internet sales component from SAP, we found an option that was not only well-suited to our needs and robust, but also was easy to implement and flexible enough to offer the sales channel options that are most comfortable for us, our customers and our business partners." OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc. is one of the world's three leading lamp manufacturers and part of the Siemens family of companies. Product Lifecycle Product lifecycle or product life cycle is the course of a product's sales and profits over time. The five stages of each product lifecycle are product development, introduction, growth, maturity and decline. Management The Internet has brought about greater customer demand for tailored products, rapidly increasing change rates, and an ongoing trend toward globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation and outsourcing. To be competitive in this environment, it is essential to manage customers, products and partnerships closely over the complete life cycle. Product Lifecycle Management with mySAP.com is an integrated business solution for managing the complete product life cycle of the extended supply chain, from innovation, design and production through sales and maintenance. The solution provides Web-based access to all product knowledge across and between partnering companies, enabling fast, reliable collaboration for product design, manufacturing and data management within an enterprise and with external trading partners. Strategic Enterprise Management SAP Strategic Enterprise Management SAP Strategic Enterprise Management is part of the MySAP ERP software from SAP AG. It is also called MySAP Financials SEM. It is the Strategic Enterprise Management solution of SAP AG. (TM) (SAP SEM(TM)) with mySAP.com leverages the most comprehensive analytical SEM software application on the market. The processes within the SAP SEM component link strategy with operational activities and value drivers that effectively make strategy a continuous task in the day-to-day business of an enterprise. Strategic Enterprise Management enables senior executives to communicate with all stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. in real time, translate strategies into action faster, and assess and enhance corporate value. Business Intelligence SAP Business Intelligence(TM) applications with mySAP.com are composed of several components that enable knowledge workers to explore the vast amount of data inherent in the enterprise and turn it into meaningful, decision-supporting business information. At the heart of this solution is SAP Business Information Warehouse SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) is the name of the Business Intelligence, analytical, reporting and Data Warehousing (DW) solution which is one of the major enterprise software applications produced by SAP AG. (TM) (SAP BW(TM)), a state-of-the-art, end-to-end data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse and analysis solution. More than 1,500 companies have adopted SAP BW. Another aspect of Business Intelligence is Knowledge Management(TM), which makes the dissemination and exchange of knowledge systematic. As a result, the accuracy and quality of communication increase dramatically. About SAPPHIRE 2000 Berlin SAPPHIRE 2000 Berlin, this year's European SAP customer and partner event, is a major information exchange for the IT industry. SAPPHIRE 2000 Berlin offers a comprehensive conference program as well as a large exhibition area, both of which are focused on the continuous evolution and expansion of mySAP.com solutions and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services offered by SAP and its partners. At Europe's largest conference center, the International Congress Centrum centrum /cen·trum/ (sen´trum) pl. cen´tra [L.] 1. a center. 2. the body of a vertebra. cen·trum n. pl. cen·trums or cen·tra 1. Berlin, more than 10,000 registered SAPPHIRE attendees from more than 60 countries can choose from among five keynote presentations and nearly 400 hours of information sessions. More than 160 companies will showcase their offerings in a 13,000-square-meter exhibition space on the adjacent fairgrounds n. pl. 1. same as fairground. . An additional 3,000-square-meter exhibit hall, "Planet Mobile," features demonstrations of the latest SAP solutions for handheld and portable computing devices as well as presentations on how companies are using mobile solutions in everyday business. SAP also has set up 500 personal computers that attendees can use to try out and personalize a mySAP.com Workplace suited to their role as conference attendees. 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 See Web 2.0 and Internet2. 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 under the symbol "SAP." The SAP World Wide Web site can be found at http://www.sap.com. Copyright (c) 2000 SAP AG SAP, SAPPHIRE, mySAP.com, R/3, mySAP.com, SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer, SAP APO, SAP CRM, SAP Business-to-Business Procurement, SAP BBP, SAP Strategic Enterprise Management, SAP SEM, SAP Business Intelligence, SAP Business Information Warehouse, SAP BW and Knowledge Managment are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and several other countries. Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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