Pharmacia & Upjohn Inc. selects SSA's BPCS Client/Server; multi-million dollar deal includes move from the mainframe to client/server.CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 23, 1996--System Software Associates Inc. (Nasdaq:SSAX SSAX Soprano Saxophone ) announced today that the pharmaceutical company Pharmacia & Upjohn Inc. signed a multi-million dollar contract for SSA's BPCS BPCS Business Planning and Control System BPCS Better Process Control School BPCS Basic Process Control System BPCS Base/Post/Camp/Station BPCS Broadband Personal Communications System (FCC) Client/Server product. The new contract provides for the $7.0 billion global company to move from customized IBM mainframe IBM mainframes, though perceived as synonymous with mainframe computers in general due to their marketshare, are now technically and specifically IBM's line of business computers that can all trace their design evolution to the IBM System/360. systems to BPCS Client/Server on any of the supported platforms, including Unix and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) AS/400 servers. Currently the company has BPCS installed in more than 25 sites globally. "We have been pleased with our current BPCS system and feel that SSA (Serial Storage Architecture) A fault tolerant peripheral interface from IBM that transfers data at 80 and 160 Mbytes/sec. SSA uses SCSI commands, allowing existing software to drive SSA peripherals, which are typically disk drives. is the best partner for Pharmacia & Upjohn because of their technology, pharmaceutical industry expertise and cost-effectiveness," said Charles E. Simpson, Pharmacia & Upjohn, vice president for Corporate Technical Operations Administration and controller. Pharmacia & Upjohn has planned installations at their U.S. headquarters in Kalamazoo, Mich. and at other sites worldwide. The implementation will include BPCS Client/Server's Supply Chain Management, Multi-Mode Manufacturing, and Configurable Enterprise Financials. "With the move to BPCS Client/Server, Pharmacia & Upjohn will now be positioned to take advantage of more rapid change," said Terry Osborne, president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. at SSA. Pharmacia & Upjohn Inc. is a research based pharmaceutically-focused company dedicated to helping people around the world live longer and fuller lives. The company was formed through a merger of Pharmacia AB and The Upjohn Company and began operating in November 1995. Pharmacia & Upjohn is a provider of human health care products and related businesses and operates on a global basis. Its corporate management center is located in London, with major research and manufacturing centers in the United States, Sweden and Italy. SSA is the leading provider of cost-effective business enterprise information systems to the industrial sector worldwide. SSA's product line BPCS Client/Server provides business process re-engineering See reengineering. (business) Business Process Re-engineering - (BPR) Any radical change in the way in which an organisation performs its business activities. BPR involves a fundamental re-think of the business processes followed by a redesign of business activities to and integration of all operations, including multi-mode manufacturing processes, configurable supply chain management, and global financial solutions. The distributed object computing architecture (DOCA DOCA desoxycortosterone acetate. ) of BPCS Client/Server provides the benefits of next generation technology in conformance with industry standards. SSA and its business partners provide full implementation support for BPCS Client/Server in over 70 countries worldwide. Editor's Note: BPCS is a registered trademark of SSA. BPCS Client/Server and DOCA are trademarks of SSA. IBM AS/400 is a registered trademark of IBM Corp. NOTE TO EDITORS: The e-mail addresses below should contain the "at" symbol after "rbottum" and "mgiffin", respectively. It is possible this symbol may not appear properly in some systems. CONTACT: System Software Associates Inc., Chicago Roger E. Bottum, 312/474-7410, rbottum@ssax.com or Edelman Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most , Chicago Margaret Giffin, 312/240-2614, mgiffin@edelman.com |
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