SAP Customers Eastman Kodak And Halliburton Among 750 Customers Worldwide To Implement The SAP Business Information Warehouse Solution
SAP AG, a leading provider of inter-enterprise software solutions, has announced that customers Eastman Kodak and Halliburton are among 750 customers worldwide to implement the SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) solution.
The company also announced its new Release 2.0 of SAP BW. The new release makes information analysis and Web reporting easier and faster through role-based analysis models, a personalized deployment approach, and design improvements provided by the EnjoySAP initiative launched last year to improve the usability of SAP software. By using Release 2.0 of SAP BW, decision-makers at all levels - across any functional group - can get interpreted information that will help them answer business questions and react quickly to market dynamics.
Release 2.0 of SAP BW further extends mySAP.com, an open collaborative business environment of personalized solutions on demand that enables companies of all sizes and industries to fully engage their employees, customers and partners to capitalize upon the new Internet economy. SAP R/3 is the foundation for companies to benefit from the world of e-business with mySAP.com. The new Web-reporting features allow users to publish queries on a company's intranet or Internet site. These queries can be included in existing HTML pages to create a companywide store of reusable reports. With SAP BW, users can personalize the information and present it based on employee roles.
"The strong acceptance of SAP BW by customers and industry experts reaffirms our mission to supply our customers with strategic information analysis and reporting," said Mike Russo, SAP America vice president for SAP BW. "With Release 2.0 of SAP BW, our customers can extend their existing investment in SAP R/3 with business content, providing role-specific analysis paths with highly valuable, actionable information to gain a greater return on their information."
Release 2.0 of SAP BW provides companies with an integrated view of their business and comes with more than 75 user roles and approximately 480 predefined queries to enable customers to perform their tasks quickly and effectively. Its business content further delivers key performance indicators (KPIs) for company performance and process benchmarking; business content specific to industries including consumer, retail and media; and new business scenarios addressing areas such as supply chain and business-to-business procurement.
Additional features in Release 2.0 of SAP BW include the following:
Eastman Kodak and Halliburton recently won awards for their usage of SAP BW. Halliburton won the award for best ERP implementation at the Intelligent Enterprise 1999 RealWare Awards ceremony. Eastman Kodak received the 1999 Best Practices in Data Warehousing Award in the category of ERP and the Data Warehouse presented by the Data Warehousing Institute on Aug. 9.
On Aug. 3, Intelligent Enterprise awarded the SAP/Halliburton nomination Best ERP Implementation at its 1999 RealWare Awards ceremony. The SAP/Halliburton entry beat finalists Oracle Corp./AirTouch Communications and Merisel Inc./Optum Software.
Halliburton is a Fortune 100 company with revenues of $17.4 billion and a world leader in energy equipment, energy services, engineering and construction. Halliburton engineers and builds hydrocarbon processing plants, pulp and paper mills, and infrastructure systems, and provides solutions that increase oil and gas production while lowering costs.
Halliburton's objective with the SAP implementation was to globally standardize business processes across business units and functional lines; move Halliburton to a process-driven organization; and improve managers' ability to impact shareholder value through easy access to superior decision-quality information. Halliburton is using key performance indicators in conjunction with the SAP Business Information Warehouse and SAP R/3 to improve shareholder value. The reporting capabilities in SAP BW are pivotal in helping the field analyze data and make decisions that impact the bottom line.
"SAP BW captures underlying data for us and uses a common data model to facilitate collection and aggregation," said Dan Spaulding, Data Warehouse and Management Reporting manager at Halliburton. "SAP BW then massages the data into more meaningful information and lets us run unique reports, like online analytical processing (OLAP)."
On Aug. 9, the Data Warehousing Institute - the premier educational association in the data warehousing industry - presented Eastman Kodak with the 1999 Best Practices in Data Warehousing Award in the category of ERP and the Data Warehouse. To win the award, companies had to demonstrate that their data warehouse projects were innovative, replicable by other companies and successful.
The goal of Eastman Kodak's data warehouse project was to streamline fragmented business processes. Because Eastman Kodak has operations in over 100 countries, it faces the complexities of multiple local transactional processes, various technologies and a lack of common business processes. Eastman Kodak consolidated all financial information from both SAP and legacy systems using SAP BW. This enabled business unit and general management reporting and analysis on worldwide, regional and national levels.
The resulting business benefits included these:
"Eastman Kodak used SAP BW to implement an award-winning ERP Global Data Warehouse," said Eric Hunt, ERP Global Data Warehouse Manager at Eastman Kodak Company. "Our initial implementation of SAP BW has served as a data point for other organizations that are interested in new `leading edge' technology, change management and global communication."
Due to market demand, SAP has fully trained more than 1,400 consultants worldwide, including consulting and technology partners, on SAP BW to ensure customer success.
Release 2.0 of SAP BW is scheduled for first customer shipment at the end of November 1999.
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.
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