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SAP Uses Primergy Server from Siemens as a Windows NT
Development Platform for SAP SCOPE; High-end, Multi-processor
Primergy Family Defines the Standard
Business Wire - September 14, 1998 09:22
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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 14, 1998--Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems, Inc. today announced that SAP Labs Inc. will use the Siemens' Intel-based Primergy server family as a Windows NT
development platform for the SAP Supply-Chain Optimization, Planning and Execution(TM) (SAP SCOPE(TM)) initiative. The Primergy Family is based on the latest Intel architecture including the recently announced Pentium(R) II Xeon(TM) processor. SAP and Siemens are broadening their existing 25 year technology alliance. For SAP, the partnership means continuous access to advanced server technology focused on medium-size and large data-intensive networks. For Siemens, the relationship guarantees the highest level of performance of SAP(TM) R/3(TM) for their enterprise resource planning (ERP) customers. "The performance, scalability and reliability features of Siemens high-end Primergy servers lets us offer our customers platforms that meet the needs of their CPU and data intensive solutions," stated Heinz Roggenkemper, executive vice
president of development at SAP Labs.
The Fast Gets Even Faster
Swiss Pension and Life AG, headquartered in Zurich, is the No. 1 life insurance company in Switzerland. Doing business in 50 countries requires the processing of an inordinate amount of information. First using a cluster of 4-processor, PentiumPro Primergy 560 computers, the company shaved hours off the processing of insurance policies, reaching a record-breaking 6 hour processing run. Commenting on the further improvement of the new Primergy 870, Walter Boniger, senior vice-president at Swiss Pension and Life AG, stated, "The new Xeon-II
processors reduced the 6-hour run almost in half to an unbelievable 3 1/2 hours. We can now run iterative processes more frequently to improve the quality of the results." "Though performance is a major component to data and processing intensive business applications," said Adrian Ionel, director of Siemens' North American
Computer Systems sales unit for SAP, "our Primergy family of servers also has a leading benchmark in scalability, upgradeability, hot replacement of critical components and high availability through fault-immunity functions."
Action Speaks Louder Than Words
The critical mix of server features found in the Primergy 870 prompted SAP Labs to acquire three of the
servers. The equipment optimizes the solution for SAP R/3 and SAP SCOPE. SAP SCOPE combines the
strength of the SAP R/3 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution with the SAP Advanced Planner and
Optimizer(TM) (SAP APO(TM)) products and technologies found in the SAP Sales Force Automation(TM)
(SAP SFA(TM)), business to business commerce and SAP Business Information Warehouse(TM) (SAP
BW(TM)) solutions.
About Siemens Nixdorf
Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems, Inc. develops, integrates and services world-class open systems and
user centered solutions that provide competitive advantages for customers and partners in the Americas.
Offerings include a full line of scalable UNIX and Windows NT-based systems and software, a broad range of
information technology services, as well as retail point of sale systems and data center outsourcing.
Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems is the U.S. subsidiary of German-based Siemens Nixdorf
Informationssysteme AG. With operations in over 60 countries worldwide, $9.5 billion in revenues and
approximately 36,000 employees, it is the largest European information technology firm and ranks among the
world's leading suppliers.
Siemens Nixdorf is the largest subsidiary company of Siemens AG, the world's foremost provider of advanced
technology in the electronics and electrical engineering industry. In the latest fiscal year, Siemens had
approximately $65 billion in combined revenues and 386,000 employees in more than 190 countries. Visit
Siemens Nixdorf on the World Wide Web at siemensnixdorf.com.
SAP, R/3, SAP Supply Chain Optimization, Planning and Execution, SAP SCOPE, SAP Advanced Planner
and Optimizer, SAP APO, SAP Sales Force Automation, SAP SFA, SAP Business Information Warehouse,
SAP BW and all SAP product and service names referenced herein are trademarks or registered trademarks
of SAP AG. All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners.
CONTACT: Siemens Nixdorf
Karen O'Brien, 408/428-7169
karen.obrien@sni-usa.com
or
A&R Partners
Austen Briggs, 650/363-0982, x255
abriggs@arpartners.com
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