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To: Warren A. Wilbur, Jr. who wrote (9826)	2/13/1999 7:19:00 AM
From: RMMOYER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 40688

Hello all... Still lurking... buy I see Z is thrilled that there is someone else out there who slaughters lambs and gets away with it....go Clinton, go Z! Doc....and the gang

To: Warren A. Wilbur, Jr. who wrote (9826)	2/13/1999 8:47:00 AM
From: ztect	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 40688

Hey Warren...somehow I thought you'd like the D & B article.... Here's an interesting possible implication ....diagrammed... SAP===> D & B ===> PNL ===> D & B ===> SAP (see PR regarding D&B + SAP below) Now through the associative property SAP ===> PNL ===> SAP SAP & PNL ?????? Talk about a HUGE possibility.... For those that don't know about SAP, the world's largest enterprise software company, I strongly suggest you click the link below... sap.com Just thinking "aloud", but let me clearly emphasize this is just ztect's speculation and conjecture. ztect... ========================= SAP AG and Dun & Bradstreet Announce Strategic Alliance to Deliver Extended Information Access for Improved Decision-Making WALLDORF, Germany, and MURRAY HILL, N.J. - Feb. 8, 1999 - SAP AG (NYSE ADR: SAP), the leading provider of enterprise application solutions, and Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE:DNB), the global leader in providing business information, today announced a strategic alliance to embed online business content within integrated enterprise applications. The joint offering, D&B for SAP R/3, seamlessly integrates the SAP R/3 solution and D&B business information for enhanced decision support. A large share of customers of R/3 already subscribe to D&B information services for credit, purchasing and marketing information as well as data rationalization to reconcile inconsistent data from internal systems. Using D&B for SAP R/3, customers are able to populate their R/3 customer and supplier information with risk and hierarchical data from D&B to significantly enhance risk-management decisions. Credit decisions become faster, less expensive and more effective, resulting in an immediate return on investment. From a strategic supplier standpoint, customers can use D&B information within R/3 to help streamline and consolidate their supplier base, leverage purchasing power across the organization, and assist in reducing purchasing costs. SAP customers are able to identify bad debts at an early stage, which can help improve their cash flow and minimize days sales outstanding (DSO). D&B for SAP R/3 is currently available in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom and France, and will be rolled out worldwide later this year. Early customers are already achieving increased efficiency and productivity. Martin Kraemer, financial accounting director of DyStar, a joint venture between Hoechst and Bayer in Frankfurt, Germany, said, "Integrating D&B information into SAP R/3 via D&B for SAP R/3 allows us to enhance our own customer information with valuable business intelligence that results in better, faster, more cost-efficient risk-management decisions and a more streamlined customer management process." "D&B has helped Monsanto create master records with high-quality data that flow through our SAP R/3 solution," said Steve Schaefer, enterprise reference data manager at Monsanto Co., a multibillion dollar global life sciences company. "It is critical that we have accurate and comprehensive data within our SAP integrated applications. The SAP solution in conjunction with the D&B D-U-N-S Number has been instrumental in the improvement of our supply and demand chain because it facilitates an understanding of business relationships with our customers and vendors. In the end, better business decisions are made." The D&B for SAP R/3 Solution D&B for SAP R/3 consists of two components, a customer (accounts receivable) solution and a supplier (accounts payable) solution that seamlessly integrate R/3 master data and the D&B database at the application level. The D&B database is the world's largest and most comprehensive global database of its kind. It is updated more than 950,000 times daily and includes information on more than 50 million publicly traded and privately held companies in more than 200 countries. The integrated solution provides customers with quick and easy online access to D&B's database of business information from a pull-down menu within R/3. "SAP is committed to helping customers of all sizes and industries continue to extend the value of their SAP solutions and improve their return on information. We are proud to provide customers a best-in-class solution to enhance the integrated business software we offer with embedded strategic content," said Henning Kagermann, co-chairman and CEO of SAP AG. "D&B for SAP R/3 enhances the ease, quality and effectiveness of customers' knowledge-based decision-making for improved efficiency and cost savings." "This alliance integrates high-quality D&B business information directly into key business processes to provide customers even higher returns on their SAP investments," said Volney Taylor, chairman and CEO of The Dun & Bradstreet Corp. This combination of SAP software and D&B information empowers organizations to respond quickly and intelligently to dynamic market conditions and to achieve sustainable competitive advantages." D&B Data Rationalization D&B also offers a data rationalization service for SAP customers that consolidates, cleanses and eliminates redundant customer and vendor records that originate from a wide variety of sources and multiple formats. D&B's data rationalization service can speed up data preparation during an enterprise application implementation and enhance master records after implementation to ensure that the customer has and maintains the most reliable customer and vendor master files within SAP business solutions. Through this strategy, D&B is building on the D&B D-U-N-S Number, an internationally recognized company identifier, as the de facto standard in ERP, enterprise resource management (ERM), customer relationship management (CRM) and other enterprise decision-support systems. "Companies invest billions of dollars every year on ERP systems to process transactions," said Clare Gillan, vice president of applications research, International Data Corp. "It is time for companies to improve the return on these investments by leveraging solutions like the combined D&B and SAP offering that incorporate stronger decision-support tools and timely business intelligence." Product Availability Release 1.1 of D&B for SAP R/3 supports SAP R/3 releases 3.1 and 4.0. D&B for SAP R/3 is initially offered in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom and France. The next release, 1.2, is planned to support SAP R/3 release 4.5 and will be rolled out to additional countries. This alliance allows both SAP and D&B to market the product with joint product support. D&B data rationalization services are available in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Japan and Canada.