07 Apr 1998
SAP has bought the rights to a graphic display system which will hook up managers to data held within R/3-based business information systems, writes Sinhad Carew.
SAP said last week that its Management Cockpit product will draw information from SAP?s Business Information Warehouse and allow users to analyse it in an intuitive fashion. The product draws on neurological research and was developed by a Belgian company, NET Research.
The Cockpit, which is built to resemble the controls of in aeroplane cockpit, includes a six-screen high-end PC configuration called a flight deck. It uses colour-coded displays to relate different types of business data, and plots actual and projected results alongside early warnings of trouble.
SAP said that because R/3 can integrate corporate information in real time, the Cockpit enables executives to made strategy adjustments promptly.
The two companies said that piloting of the system by a small number of SAP users would begin this month. The product is expected to be released in volume at the beginning of next year.
? Report by VNU Newswire
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