Partner preview: WorkflowOne enhances brand communication for SAP users; Visual Numerics serves up advanced analytics
By Manufacturing Business Technology Staff -- Manufacturing Business Technology, 12/14/2007 9:13:00 AM
WorkflowOne will offer supply chain management solutions for branded communications in partnership with SAP.
"Organizations can spend as much as 3 percent of their revenue on branded communication, from sales collateral and direct mail to invoices, labels, stationery, and transactional documents," says Greg Mosher, CEO and chairman of Workflow Management Inc., the parent company of WorkflowOne. "We believe the combination of SAP's Business Process Platform and WorkflowOneAccess creates the most technologically advanced platform for managing the print and promotional products supply chain available in industry today."
WorkflowOne helps customers control costs and protect brand integrity from design to delivery by offering a full complement of services ranging from sourcing, production, warehousing, kitting and fulfillment to distribution. With more than 100 sales locations and 600 representatives across the U.S., WorkflowOne offers hands-on service combined with a national footprint of manufacturing and distribution centers.
The Visual Numerics IMSL C Numerical Library, version 6.0, will be embedded in the SAP NetWeaver platform; and integrated with TREX, a structured and unstructured data processing component of SAP NetWeaver, thereby giving the TREX engine functions for outlier detection, dependency analysis, and forecasting. SAP applications that use the TREX engine will benefit from this new embedded functionality.
Increasingly advanced analytics such as predictive forecasting have become an important requirement for process-embedded, intelligent analytic applications. Therefore, the analytics technology needs to be an integral element of the underlying SAP NetWeaver platform. SAP NetWeaver also serves as the foundation for a wide range of solutions for performance management, addressing the specific financial and operational needs of customers in more than 25 industries.
SAP selected Visual Numerics due to its breadth and depth of embeddable IMSL C Library algorithms, Visual Numerics' long-term reputation for advanced analytics, as well as its world-class international support.
According to Phil Fraher, president and CEO, Visual Numerics. "Advanced analytics comprise a critical component for today's business applications. Embeddable libraries provide software vendors like SAP with a broader, customizable analytics alternative than building this functionality in-house or buying a one-size-fits-all solution."
For information on the IMSL C Numerical Library: http://www.vni.com/products/imsl/c/imslc.php.
