TMR - Gemini

Posted February 22, 2002

Manufacturing News

SAP Portals and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Sign Partnership Agreement

SAP Portals, Inc. (Silicon Valley, Calif.; www.sapportals.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of SAP AG, and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (New York; www.cgey.com), announced that they have signed a global agreement to help companies implement strategic enterprise portal solutions. The two companies are working together to develop joint marketing plans, leverage joint investment funds and create collaborative go-to-market strategies around target industries.
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young's relationship with SAP Portals will include three main components; Centers of Excellence, DareStep and Portals Index.
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young has established a Center of Excellence in four cities: Walldorf, Germany; Dallas; Chicago; and Paris. These centers provide a common platform for the creation of industry-specific solutions, such as those already created for the automotive and consumer products industries.
Through DareStep, its interactive design practice, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young looks for thought leadership and methodology around the user experience. Every SAP Portals engagement will be evaluated against DareStep's 12 principles of effective user experience to ensure the maximum user acceptance.
The Portals Index is a rapid assessment tool set that helps in evaluating a transaction's effectiveness and understanding the impact portal and BI solutions can have on both internal and business partner productivity as well as cost of ownership. The index contains a migration philosophy along two continuums, Connectivity and Transactional Effectiveness, enabling organizations to optimize their portal and BI solutions using a series of prescribed steps, each delivering an immediate return on investment.

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