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WSSC Product Profiles Requirements Definition - Payroll/HRIS IV. Survey Assess Packaged Solutions Arthur Andersen LLP date \@ MMMM d, yyyyJanuary 19, 1995 Vendor Analysis - title \* mergeformat SAP America (pg. page 1) filename \* mergeformat SAP2.DOC I. BACKGROUND Product Name/Series: R2 and R3 Vendor Address: International Court One 100 Stevens Drive Lester, PA 19113 Vendor Contact/Phone Number: Phone/FAX: Caroline Cook - NE Regional Sales 610-595-4900 John Mulnar - HR Product Specialist 610-595-4670 John Kingsam - Andersen Consulting Alliance Partner 404-221-6265 Marketing Literature Provided/Sent: Product literature Total Number of Employees: 3,500 Year Established/Founded: 1972 II. ARCHITECTURE/PLATFORM Architecture Mainframe (R2) Client/Server (R3) Hardware: IBM/390, DEC, AS/400 RS/6000, HP/9000, DEC, IBM/370 Operating Systems/NOS: MVS, VAX/VMS, OS/400 UNIX: HP-UX, IBM AIX, VAX/VMS, MVS DBMS: VSAM, DB2, Oracle Oracle, Informix, ADABASE, ISAM, VSAM, DB2 User Interface: Character, Windows, Motif Windows, Motif, OS/2 Development Tools: COBOL ABAP/4 III. PRODUCT/VENDOR OVERVIEW Special focus on utility industry, if applicable: Significant utilities experience Representative clients (with product and industry noted): Pacific Gas Electric, Cincinnati Gas and Electric SAP will provide more client references in the selection phase. Technical direction/new products (per vendor): SAPs strategy is to expand its functionality to serve specific industries. The company has an alliance with Andersen Consulting to develop products targeted for the utility industry and the oil and gas industry. SAP also develops products that target the government sector. SAP’s technical direction is to move away from the mainframe environment and towards client/server. Other comments and analysis: SAP is in a unique position of providing both broad financial and human resources applications as well as industry specific applications. The companys products have extensive functio