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Unisys Introduces Web-Based Output Management Server for SAP R/3: Immediate Distribution of Any Output, Anywhere for R/3 Solutions

Business Wire, Sept 14, 1999

BLUE BELL, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 14, 1999--

Unisys Corporation today announced Output Management Server for SAP R/3, technology for automatically distributing output from R/3 inter-enterprise business solutions to virtually anywhere in the enterprise, immediately, via the Web or printed document.

This Web-enabled Unisys solution lets users capitalize on advanced electronic business technology to further collaborative computing across the enterprise.

Unisys Output Management Server for SAP R/3 lets the user publish report data generated by an SAP R/3 solution on a secure Web page for instantaneous access, without paper, from anywhere in the enterprise. Featuring the ability to publish into a secure web-directory, the technology generates e-mail messages that either deliver the information, or notification of it being available, to authorized recipients.

Distribution of information with Output Management Server for SAP R/3 eliminates the need for specialized scripts needed to format reports, as well as for preprinted forms onto which report data are printed. Reports can now be formatted using a template created in Microsoft Word, which users populate with data from their SAP R/3-based solution.

Output Management Server for SAP R/3 also distributes print files over open networks, enabling users to distribute and print SAP R/3 files across the enterprise, using multivendor heterogeneous printers and print servers. As a result, the time needed to distribute a large volume of documents can be reduced from days to minutes.

"The timeliness of Web-based document distribution provides a new measure of flexibility for SAP R/3 users, particularly in large enterprises," said G.W. Smith, vice president and general manager of Worldwide Business Solutions, Unisys Computer Systems. "The complications of multivendor distributed systems and the need to control a variety of print formats have until now made this a nearly insurmountable and time-consuming challenge."

Output Management Server for SAP R/3 is integrated with SAP R/3 using integration software from SuperNova, a provider of software solutions for enterprise application development and integration. The software, SuperNova for R/3 Adapter, is a general-purpose and flexible adapter that significantly simplifies R/3-related connectivity efforts.

Output Management Server for SAP R/3 will be available in the fourth quarter of this year.

Unisys exhibits servers specially configured to optimize SAP R/3 performance and thin-client-based SAP solutions.

Unisys will exhibit Windows NT-based Aquanta ES5045 servers specially configured to optimize the performance of SAP R/3 at the SAPPHIRE '99 conference held here this week. In addition, Unisys will demonstrate the benefits of running SAP R/3 in a thin-client, server-centric environment.

The substantial improvement in Windows NT application scalability made possible by the Unisys servers extend the capacity of the optimized servers to support very large numbers of SAP R/3 users. They reflect Unisys mainframe-heritage skills in bringing enterprise-class scalability to solutions running in the Microsoft Windows NT computing environment. Key customer benefits of the optimized server program include predictable and reliable performance, on-time installation, a fixed price for warranted performance and reduced risk.

The optimized server configurations feature a limited warrantytribute SAP R/3 solutions by running the software in a single, centrally administered, server-based environmrogram for SAP solutions can be found at www.unisys.com/marketplace/sap.> Information on the SuperNova fto help customers deploy Windows NT for enterprise computing.

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