SSA Global Technologies Announces the Immediate Availability of a Web Browser Interface for BPCS V6.1.01.Business/High-Tech Editors Enhancing customer investment in 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) by providing users access to BPCS(R) V6.1.01 over the Internet or Intranet using Microsoft(R) Internet Explorer CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2001 SSA Global Technologies SSA Global Technologies (previous NASDAQ symbol: SSAG) was a company developing Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. On May 15, 2006, SSA Global announced that it would be acquired by Infor Global Solutions. , Inc., a worldwide provider of enterprise solutions and services, today announced immediate global availability of a Web Browser Interface for its BPCS (Business Planning and Control System) manufacturing software system, providing more accessibility, ease of use and time savings for its customers. With availability of BPCS Web Browser Interface (WBI (WeB Intermediaries) A technology from IBM that provides a framework for intermediate processing between the user's browser and the Web server. WBI provides a middleware standard that can be used for password and privacy management, for transcoding from one format to ) and with the recent release of BPCS for Windows NT/Windows 2000, SSA Global Technologies continues to extend the capabilities of BPCS V6.1.01, demonstrating its focus on the customers' needs by enhancing the value of their investment in BPCS V6.1.01. "Last August, we renewed our commitment to our customers, with a pledge to provide value by enhancing their investment in BPCS", said Rick Gonzales, president for the Americas region of 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. GT. "The announcement of BPCS WBI and the recent release of BPCS V6.1.01 on Windows NT/Windows 2000, demonstrates our ability to follow through on our commitment." The BPCS WBI provides customers the option of operating BPCS V6.1.01 using the familiar Microsoft Internet Explorer See Internet Explorer. interface. WBI is an alternative presentation layer to the standard BPCS V6.1.01 Client/Server interface. Once BPCS WBI has been installed on an industry standard Web Server, users can access BPCS V6.1.01 using Microsoft Internet Explorer over an Intranet or the Internet. This increases accessibility to data for both local, and especially, remote users. Loading the BPCS WBI on to the Web Server eliminates the need to load BPCS Client/Server software onto each user's personal computer. The Web Server serves HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. pages to users as necessary. Managing all changes to the application at the Web server, offers improved efficiencies through savings in maintenance time and expenses. Eliminating the need to load the thin client on each PC will save time and PC resources. "This can significantly reduce the load on hard pressed IT support staff", stated Peter Greenfield, director of product development, for SSA GT. "This is especially valuable for many of our customers with remote users in multiple locations." BPCS WBI is immediately available in languages including: English, Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Simplified and Traditional Chinese and for all BPCS V6.1.01 supported platforms: 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(R) (eServer,iSeries), Hewlett Packard UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 2000. About SSA Global Technologies SSA Global Technologies, Inc., is a leading provider of enterprise software and services to the world's industrial sector companies, dedicated to the assessment, design, development, implementation, and support of business solutions which improve business processes and increase profitability. SSA GT's core product, BPCS, is a flexible 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. platform that easily integrates with strategic partner applications to deliver e-commerce, business intelligence, customer relationship management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ) and supply chain solutions. Worldwide, SSA GT is focused on addressing the needs of industrial sector companies, more specifically in the automotive supply, consumer goods (incorporating fast moving consumer goods “CPG” redirects here. For other uses, see CPG (disambiguation). Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), also known as Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), are products that have a quick turnover and relatively low cost. , food beverage and tobacco and consumer electronics), pharmaceutical/chemical and general manufacturing industries. Headquartered in Chicago, SSA GT operates offices throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia/Pacific/Japan and Latin America. To find out more, visit the SSA GT's Website at www.ssagt.com. BPCS is a registered trademark of SSA Global Technologies,Inc. Other products mentioned in this document are registered, trademarked or service marked by their respective owners. |
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