ISOCOR, a leading Internet messaging and directory software developer, today announced an extension to its award-winning MetaConnect product range that provides connectivity to enterprise systems from SAP, the world`s largest enterprise resource planning (EPR) software company. ISOCOR`s SAP connector offers users integration of data stored in their SAP system with data from non-SAP applications within a company-wide Meta-Directory.
"MetaConnect enables us to draw together our corporate data in one location so it can be centrally managed as a unified resource across the enterprise," said Frank Wagner, Project Manager at Merck KGAA. "This gives us the ability to easily incorporate information from a range of systems, mapping this onto our core SAP system."
"We are pleased to be working with the leading ERP vendor to bring a true Meta-Directory solution to global corporations," said Paul Gigg, President and CEO, ISOCOR. The availability of SAP connectivity is a significant enhancement to our MetaConnect product and underscores ISOCOR`s position as a leading provider of Meta Directory solutions."
"Stinnes AG is a very large and complex organisation and ranks among the world`s foremost logistics companies on an international scale. It consists of a number of different companies operating on an international scale. In order to operate as one unit with easy access to information across the organisation and make effective use of the economies of scale available to us, we needed a solution which would enable communication within all the companies," said Oliver Stein, Steins Information Technology Manager.
"MetaConnect provided us with an open architecture solution which allowed us to draw together corporate data and integrate with our SAP system into one location so it can be centrally managed as a unified resource. We see this as key to developing a competitive advantage and better information flow."
"We are seeing a demand for business solutions to unify corporate information. MetaConnect provides a high performance solution whose scalability is ideally suited for enterprise management within large corporations," said Alisa Dix, Sun Microsystems TM, SAP business development manager. "It is designed to integrate smoothly with a corporation`s present environment, using existing information and programming resources. This flexibility and the fact that it does not force the corporation to deploy another directory server, reduces the costs of implementation."
MetaConnect greatly reduces the Total Cost of Ownership by making information available across multiple applications and sites, allowing companies to achieve both secure and fast access to data as well as lower their management costs. MetaConnect enables organisations to become more effective in the provision of internal systems, because data mastered once is used throughout the IT system eliminating duplication of data and administrative support - therefore, data is always up-to-date and delivering powerful unified `information` designed to meet the needs users.
With installations across 19,750 sites, SAP is the world`s largest Enterprise software company. The power of SAP software lies in real-time integration, linking a company`s business processes and applications, and supporting immediate responses to change throughout the organisation on a departmental, divisional or global scale. Meta-Directories like MetaConnect from ISOCOR enable the integration of information within a SAP system with that from other sources across the enterprise. This helps companies to optimise supply chains, strengthen customer relationships, and make more accurate management decisions.
ISOCOR designed the MetaConnect family of products to bring data together for effective intranet and Internet use, enabling an organisation to provide accurate, up-to-date information to employees, customers and trading partners from existing data sources. MetaConnect manages the connections to disparate directories and databases and joins the information together in one meta-directory that can be centrally managed as a unified resource across the enterprise. The benefits include reduction in administration and infrastructure development costs, efficient internal and external business communications and improved security of corporate information.
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ISOCOR (www.isocor.com) is a leading provider of world-class Internet software, supplying high-quality, high-performance software designed to handle an organisation`s messaging and directory requirements. ISOCOR customers represent Fortune 1000 companies and service providers in the manufacturing, telecommunications, financial, government, healthcare, entertainment and other markets around the world. Customers include Texas Instruments, Worldcom Advanced Network Services and New York Life, among others.
Headquartered in California, USA, ISOCOR is a global organisation with major development centres in Santa Monica, Dublin and Berlin. ISOCOR has sales/support offices in key international business centres including London, Paris, Torino, Berlin and Bern.
Except for the historical information, the matters discussed in this document are forward-looking statements that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Such factors include the impact of competitive announcements and products, the rate of growth of the markets in which the Company competes, the effect and rate of change in standards and platforms for messaging products, the risks associated with the year 2000, as well as the risk factors listed from time to time in the Company`s U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reports, including but not limited to the report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1997 and 1998, and/or Form 10-Q for the quarters ended in those same years, copies of which are available from ISOCOR`s Investor Relations Department or through the Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval system (EDGAR) at www.sec.gov. The Company assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements included in this document.
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