ARP DATACON IMPLEMENTS SAP ONLINE STORE
Vendor: New Era of Networks (NEON)
ARP Datacon AG, a leading computer retailer in Switzerland, Germany and Austria, has implemented SAP Online Store. The deployment will enable ARP Datacon to sell and service products, and to make purchases via the Web.
NEON re-engineered ARP Datacon’s business processes and realigned them to meet requirements for performing e-business transactions. The comprehensive project entailed customizing, installing and configuring SAP’s Web-based Online Store, and integrating it with ARP Datacon’s internal systems, external trading partners and retail customers. NEON’s SAP consultants integrated all data from the Internet – orders, product availability, and payments – into the central SAP system, reducing administrative costs, data redundancy, and the probability of errors.
“The SAP R/3 project – and in particular NEON’s integration of the SAP Online Store – is very important for ARP Datacon. This solution enables our fast expansion into new markets by optimizing our business processes,” said Bernhard Stocker, marketing manager for ARP Datacon. “The special attention we have given to integrating our customers and suppliers with the new, Internet technology enables us to automate our business processes and provide better overall service.”
ABM AMRO IMPLEMENTS ONLINE BANKING PROJECT
Vendor: Level 8
Product: Geneva Integrator
ABN AMRO, a leading international banking group, has deployed Level 8’s Geneva Integrator product for new cash management and online banking integration projects. Level 8’s Geneva Integrator enabled ABN AMRO to integrate several of the company’s back-end legacy systems with Web-based applications in order to handle the growing number of customer online inquiries. In only four months, Geneva Integrator enabled ABN AMRO to utilize data from its legacy systems and convert it quickly to different Web formats such as XML and HTML.
As a member of Integrion, an international consortium of banks that has pooled its resources to provide a common infrastructure for online banking, ABN AMRO also used Geneva Integrator as a message broker between the consortium’s common infrastructure, known as the Integrion Financial Network, and ABN AMRO’s core processing systems.
“ABN AMRO selected Geneva for its integration projects because it provided an immensely flexible and scalable infrastructure that quickly taps any legacy system,” said Alan Singer, vice-president of IT at ABN AMRO. “As a result, we reduced integration and development costs and enhanced our competitive position by improving our products, services, and time to market.”