UK Post Office Adopts IntelliCorp LiveModel Technology; $11 Billion Organization Streamlines SAP R/3 Implementation and Reduces Cost with LiveModel
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 23, 2000-- IntelliCorp (Nasdaq:INAI), a leading provider of eBusiness and CRM solutions for the SAP(TM) community, today announced the successful use of LiveModel at the UK Post Office to reduce costs and accelerate R/3(TM) implementation time.
LiveModel is IntelliCorp's powerful collaborative modeling environment for describing, managing and transforming business processes and organizations. LiveModel helps companies accelerate implementation time, eliminate costly mistakes, and provide a foundation for e-transformation by allowing teams to immediately understand how various business changes or scenarios will impact R/3.
"We are using LiveModel to capture and bring together all existing finance business processes. Information will be used to generate a process map for the new business units," adds Jackie Dolphin, UK Post Office Finance System (POFS) project manager. "LiveModel has enabled us to shorten time-scales considerably - saving at least six months development time, as well as eliminating costly mistakes."
IntelliCorp LiveModel has enabled the UK Post Office to describe business processes implemented in R/3, including: add-ons, legacy applications, or those performed manually, as well as their integration points. Process steps can be mapped to organizational entities and job roles, end-to-end processes can be documented, and the impact of system or organization changes understood and accommodated.
IntelliCorp's LiveModel has been used for a variety of different projects at the UK Post Office over the past three years, playing a crucial role as they restructure operations to be more responsive to customer needs.
The UK Post Office also created a plan for future enterprise growth with the use of LiveModel by creating 'The Post Office Enterprise Model.' This template has contributed to their business model for new business units.
Discussing other benefits of using LiveModel, Dolphin adds, "IntelliCorp's comprehensive modeling tool is also proving to be a good means of educating users about the requirements of SAP - group wide. This results in a better understanding of SAP processes and how to integrate these with other applications."
Dolphin concluded, "LiveModel will continue to play an important role at The Post Office in the future - for on-going development work and upgrades throughout the restructured organization." |
