Intergraph, SAP sign memorandum of understanding

Business Wire, May 9, 1995

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 1995--Intergraph Corporation announced today that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with SAP, one of the fastest-growing software companies in the world.

In the memorandum, the companies agree to work together to pursue joint sales opportunities and integrate their application to meet customer demands.

SAP develops and markets an open, integrated client/server-based business application system called R/3, which provides enterprise-wide business solutions for mission-critical applications. Intergraph is the world's largest company dedicated to supplying interactive computer graphics systems.

Tommy Steele, president of Intergraph Software Solutions (ISS), the software division of Intergraph, said the companies have, for the past eight months, been conducting joint marketing analyses of customers and products to determine overlap and potential demand for integration of their combined products.

They have also been conducting technical analyses of the feasibility of this integration. Intergraph is also integrating the SAP technology to its own internal management practices.

"We started talks last summer," Steele said. "As we learned more about each other, it became apparent that we each possessed elements that, if combined, could create a very effective business relationship."

Intergraph will demonstrate a possible integration of its Document Management 2.0 product with SAP software at its International Graphics Users Group meeting here this week. The companies plan integration demonstrations between Intergraph's FRAMME utility software and R/3 and Intergraph's PDS plant design software and R/3 later in the year.

"These demonstrations will help us build an integration toolkit," Steele said. "This toolkit could be used by Intergraph's Solution Engineering Division consultants to provide integrations based on customer requirements."

In addition to software integration between the two companies, Steele said Intergraph will provide hardware to support the SAP environment as well as worldwide training and service.

"Intergraph's long history of supporting client/server environments positions us particularly well to support SAP's products,'' Steele said.

SAP America's Senior Vice President Peter Dunning said that customers also brought the companies together. Both include many of the world's leading industrial and manufacturing companies on their customer lists.

"We each provide different services for many of the same companies," Dunning said. "This relationship will enable each of us to serve our existing customers better, while helping each other expand into other markets."

Steele said Intergraph is one of the first companies to use R/3 on Microsoft Windows NT 3.5

SAP Background Information

SAP provides flexible, integrated client/server and mainframe-based business applications software that is compatible with most popular hardware, software and database platforms. More than 4,300 companies in 41 countries use SAP software to manage complex financial, manufacturing, sales and human resources requirements. Founded in 1972, SAP AG is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, and employs a workforce of more than 5,000 worldwide. SAP America is the largest of SAP's 28 global subsidiaries and affiliates. SAP America is comprised of its corporate headquarters in Philadelphia, a Technology Development Center in Foster City, Calif., and sales and support offices throughout North America.

Intergraph Background Information

A member of the Fortune 1,000, Intergraph Corporation is the world's largest company dedicated to supplying interactive computer graphics systems. Products range from point solutions, meeting individual and departmental needs, to integrated, enterprise-wide systems. Noted for delivering interoperable systems and applications, Intergraph bases its products on Windows, Windows NT and UNIX operating systems.

ISS develops and markets integrated software for the Technical Desktop -- the combination of compatible technical applications and personal productivity tools in a single desktop computer. Technical applications include computer-aided design, engineering, analysis, manufacturing, publishing and earth sciences. ISS also provides core systems software, high-end applications and training, consulting, and implementation services. -0-

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