Nexus Technology Nexus Technology Receives mySAP.com Hosting Partner Certification.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers DES PLAINES Des Plaines, city, United States Des Plaines (dĕs plānz), city (1990 pop. 53,223), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago on the Des Plaines River; inc. 1925. Among its manufactures are chemicals and electronic equipment. , Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 15, 2001 Nexus AppSource Delivers Superior Bundle of Hosted mySAP.com e-Business Solutions to Companies of any Size Nexus Technology, Inc., a leading 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. application service provider (ASP asp, popular name for several species of viper, one of which, the European asp (Vipera aspis), is native to S Europe. It is also a name for the Egyptian cobra (Naja haja). ) and integration consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a , today announced it has received certification as a mySAP.com(R) Hosting Partner to provide mySAP.com e-business solutions to its new and existing Fortune 1000, small-to-medium size and aggressive growth customers in the Consumer Product Goods and Retail sectors. An early pioneer of ASP solutions for SAP(TM) R/3(R) software, Nexus Technology has an installed base of over 12,000 hosted end-users for SAP Basis(TM), development and functional support. The company's flagship ASP solution, Nexus AppSource(R), is a combination of application hosting and application management outsourcing Application Management Outsourcing refers to the ongoing maintenance, management, conversion, enhancement and support of an application software portfolio by an external company. services. "We are very pleased to add Nexus Technology to our growing roster of Certified See certification. Hosting Partners," said Tom Melchiore, vice president of SAPHosting. "Nexus has met with our rigorous certification standards, including demonstrating technical excellence and strong vertical industry expertise." In addition to this certification, Nexus Technology is also a certified mySAP.com Services Partner. The Hosting Partner certification expands and strengthens Nexus Technology's relationship with SAP. "Each year, we have built upon our SAP core competencies A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. ways to compete in today's digital economy. Nexus AppSource, a pure ASP and host application solution for mySAP.com e-business solutions, is designed to address companies' needs of any size," Adamopoulos concluded. The ASP business model was a natural evolution of the company's professional service offerings and remote access monitoring and support to its installed customer base. Unlike most ASP players in the ERP marketplace today, Nexus Technology has three years of experience in hosting and seven years of experience in implementing, administrating, maintaining and supporting SAP software to Fortune 1000 and small-to-medium size customers, with a strong presence in the Consumer Sector. "The advantages to outsourcing (1) Contracting with outside consultants, software houses or service bureaus to perform systems analysis, programming and datacenter operations. Contrast with insourcing. See netsourcing, ASP, SSP and facilities management. our SAP Basis administration are simple," said Vice President and 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. John Ridlehoover of Rayovac Corporation. "I believe we have had better support since Nexus Technology took over our Basis functions than we had with two Basis employees on site. We no longer have to worry about internal turnover with our Basis team. We know Nexus is always there to help us maintain our investment in SAP R/3." Nexus AppSource -- a total hosted mySAP.com e-business solution As a mySAP.com Hosting Partner, Nexus AppSource provides the most comprehensive bundle of services in the industry today. It is a total end-to-end solution (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. that includes implementation, configuration, end-user support, Basis administration and monitoring, hosted customized and pre-configured mySAP.com solutions, communications links, hardware and class A data centers for hosting -- all for one fixed monthly fee. Nexus Technology's combined SAP expertise and uniquely bundled hosting offerings ensures the company a prominent role as a mySAP.com Hosting Partner. The company's management team has been involved with both technical and functional SAP solutions for over 10 years and the company has 200 dedicated software developers, engineers and consultants with an average of four+ years of SAP experience and 10+ years of IT industry experience. "At Rayovac, we like knowing that we have experienced, knowledgeable expertise on demand," continued Ridlehoover. "Nexus Technology's senior resources not only provide proactive 7X24X365 management of our SAP solutions, they have taken system tuning and performance enhancements to a higher level." Companies choosing Nexus AppSource will have secure access to a bundle of integrated mySAP.com solutions and services without any initial capital investment. Nexus AppSource enables a company's enterprise operations to benefit from: -- Fast e-Commerce capabilities -- Fortune 500 e-business application functionality -- Higher utilization of capital funds -- Instant ROI -- Fixed monthly fee -- Guaranteed service, maintenance and support -- Freedom to focus on core competencies About Nexus Technology, Inc. Nexus Technology, Inc., is a leading ERP application service provider (ASP) and integration consulting firm that delivers mission critical e-business applications through its flagship ASP solution, Nexus AppSource, to the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the age enterprise of any size. As a certified mySAP.com Services and Hosting Partner, Nexus Technology provides strategic solutions to its customers using SAP solutions. Nexus Technology 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. based in Des Plaines, Ill., with offices in Georgia, Colorado and Massachusetts. More information about Nexus Technology can be found at www.nexus-tek.com. Note to Editors: Nexus AppSource is a registered trademark of Nexus Technology, Inc. SAP, mySAP.com, mySAP Retail, Basis, and all SAP product and service names referenced herein are trademarks or registered trademarks 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. in Germany and several other countries. All other trademarks or company names mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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