Six Sap Implementation Partners Adopt Intellicorp's Business Process Modeling Capabilities

Business Wire, Feb 11, 1997

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 1997--

LiveModel Selected for New R/3 Model-Based Implementation Paradigm

IntelliCorp, Inc. (Nasdaq:INAI), a leading provider of business modeling software for enterprise applications, today announced business alliances with six consulting firms to add LiveModel: SAP R/3 Edition to their SAP implementation methodologies.

These partners -- Kurt Salmon Associates (KSA), Optimum Consulting America (OCA), Software Consulting Partners (SCP), Software Consulting Services (SCS), Whittman-Hart, Inc., and Intelligroup, Inc.-- will work closely with IntelliCorp to incorporate SAP's new paradigm, model-based implementation, into their SAP practice.

These alliances will facilitate rapid implementation of the SAP R/3 system by adding the advantages of business modeling -- user comprehension, early user validation, early user training and ease of upgrading -- to each consulting firms's own industry expertise.

LiveModel accelerates R/3 implementation by enabling business users to better understand the R/3 system and to articulate their business requirements. LiveModel reduces design errors and time spent during the analysis and design phase of an implementation. Decisions made during the design and implementation are stored within LiveModel as a permanent record of the implementation. Putting this tool into the hands of industry experts such as these consulting firms will result in cost-effective SAP installations.

Steve Garone, Research Manager for Object Tools at International Data Corporation, said, "By using LiveModel as an integral part of their implementation methodology, these industry experts are validating the need for tools that can be used throughout the implementation and beyond. These six firms are proving the need for a tool that not only accelerates the implementation of R/3, but also reduces costly design errors and provides a road map for modifications and upgrades."

Ken Haas, IntelliCorp's president stated, "These are six great partners for IntelliCorp. Each offers a different area of expertise and each says that LiveModel is the tool that will make them more successful in the SAP R/3 implementation market. We look forward to working with them to ensure their success in rapid, cost-effective, business-driven implementations."

Partner Information

Kurt Salmon Associates

Kurt Salmon Associates (KSA) is a full service management consulting firm specializing in the retail and consumer products industries. KSA serves its clients from 21 offices in Asia Pacific, Europe, India, and the Americas.

"In an attempt to further expand our full service consulting capabilities we are launching a global SAP practice to assist our retail and consumer products clients in implementing state of the art information management systems," said Mohsen Moazami, national director of Advanced Technology at KSA. Mohsen went on to say "LiveModel will help us train our consultants on R/3 faster and to develop reusable models that represent our target industries' best practice processes for a more efficient implementation of R/3."

Optimum Consulting America

Optimum Consulting America (OCA), operating in the U.S., Asia and Europe, is a provider of R/3 implementation, development, and education services. OCA focuses on project industries and project- oriented business processes (Capital Investment, Systems Integration and R&D).

Attila Varkonyi, managing partner of OCA, stated, "As service differentiation, focus and speed become increasingly important in the SAP implementation marketplace we strongly believe that the value-added usage of LiveModel enables OCA to serve our clients better. OCA plans to leverage LiveModel as an object-oriented knowledge repository and a tool to create templates for the Project System, Controlling and Oil industry."

Software Consulting Partners

Software Consulting Partners, a group of 45 experienced SAP implementers and training specialists based in Philadelphia, Chicago, and Atlanta, is a national SAP Implementation Partner and SAP Training Provider. Software Consulting Partners targets SAP R/3 implementations that cost the customer less than $3 million. Ulrich Neubert, president of Software Consulting Partners, said, "We plan to use LiveModel to build a pre- configuration system to support speedy SAP implementations." Mr. Neubert also envisions LiveModel as a valuable tool for maintenance of existing customer systems.

Software Consulting Services

Software Consulting Services (SCS), has offices in Melbourne, San Francisco and Chicago. The company provides project management, consulting services and user documentation and training to midsize and Fortune 500 customers.

"We found that LiveModel: SAP R/3 Edition is a very valuable tool for customer implementations of SAP's R/3 product," said Daniel Arra, vice president of U.S. operations at SCS. "LiveModel can be used in the evaluation phase to visualize R/3 capabilities, in the design phase to fine tune business processes, and throughout the project to efficiently develop documentation and training materials."