Mobius Management Systems, Inc. announces interface certification to SAP R/3

Bateleur Software Holdings, the South African distributor of Mobius Management Systems, is delighted with the announcement that Mobius Management Systems` ViewDirect for Networks product has met the high standards for certification to SAP(tm) R/3(r) solutions. The interface allows ViewDirect for Networks to serve as a central repository for all SAP R/3 electronic documents, making them quickly and easily available throughout the enterprise.

Commenting on the significance to the local market, Bateleur Software Solutions director Sam Selmer-Olsen, says the trend towards ERP solutions such as SAP mirrors Bateleur`s philosophy of providing best-of-breed business solutions. "SAP is recognised as a leader in the ERP environment and the SAP certification of Mobius ViewDirect vindicates our view of the benefits to be gained from the Electronic Document Warehousing (EDW) component of Mobius, an acknowledged leader in the high-volume document management field. "ViewDirect follows the trend towards client self-service by providing SAP clients with user-friendly access to all documentation across all platforms, thus allowing companies to leverage value from the stored information which was previously often archived and too expensive to retrieve and utilise," says Selmer-Olsen.

ViewDirect for Networks is a component of the Mobius Electronic Document Warehouse (EDW), an integrated architecture for archiving documents and data of different formats on a wide variety of computing platforms and electronic storage devices, and making them available over corporate networks and the Internet. ViewDirect for Networks, the archiving engine of the EDW, stores SAP R/3 documents and data in any format, including incoming documents, such as scanned vendor invoices; outgoing documents, such as orders; desktop-generated files, such as word processing and spreadsheet documents; R/3 output reports or print lists; and archive files.

The interface integration between ViewDirect for Networks and SAP R/3 is achieved through SAP ArchiveLink(tm), which enables direct access to EDW-archived documents from R/3 solutions and seamless linking of documents to R/3 business processes. Correspondence between SAP business objects and Mobius EDW archives is automatically maintained.

"We are pleased to be able to offer a certified R/3 interface to our customers," said Mitchell Gross, president and CEO of Mobius Management Systems, Inc. "Our EDW architecture is ideally suited to the needs of R/3 customers, who are faced with storing large volumes of documents in various formats and making them available cost-effectively to users throughout the distributed organization."

"The SAP certification process includes comprehensive testing to ensure that the interface between SAP R/3 and ViewDirect for Networks meets high quality assurance and functionality standards," said Robert Lawrence, vice president of product development at Mobius. "This process validates the technical synchronization between the Mobius EDW and R/3, and protects our customers` investments."