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11.04.04 15:36 Age: 6 yrs
Stevens named Center of Excellence in Business Process Innovation by SAP and IDS ScheerHOBOKEN, New Jersey (12 April 2004) ń Stevens Institute of Technology today announced that SAP, the world's leading provider of business software solutions, and IDS Scheer North America, the leading provider of business process excellence services and tools, have designated the Howe School of Technology Management at Stevens as a Center of Excellence in Business Process Innovation. Business Process Innovation addresses the definition, implementation, execution and improvement of corporate processes. It ranges from the graphical capturing and modeling of business processes to their automation using information technology. As a Center of Excellence, Stevens is a founding member of the collaborative SAP IDS Scheer Business Process Innovation Institute, a joint effort that will promote research into next-generation business solutions, to better prepare tomorrow's workforce and enable SAP and IDS Scheer to drive their customers' success by applying the latest research innovations to their software solutions. "This designation reflects our continuous effort to teach our students relevant and timely concepts that will drive tomorrow's enterprise infrastructures," said Jerry MacArthur Hultin, Dean of the Howe School. "SAP and IDS have recognized both our educational and research activities in the areas of Business Process Management, Workflow Automation, and Process Innovation." Dr. Michael zur Muehlen, Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the Howe School, and coordinator of the Center of Excellence, explained the role of the collaboration: "The Howe School of Technology Management has an entire research program focused on Business Processes Innovation. We have collaborations with partner schools in Australia and Germany, which include joint projects, and student and faculty exchanges. The Center of Excellence label recognizes the practical relevance of our research efforts and provides us with a vehicle for communicating our research results to a worldwide audience." Dr. zur Muehlen, who leads an SAP-funded research project on the management of business processes, added, "This collaboration provides us with access to some of the best corporate research facilities in the world. The exposure both to the R&D and customer side of the industry partnership is important to maintain the practical relevance of our research efforts. This is very well aligned with the TechnogenesisĆ approach that we practice at Stevens." Technogenesis is Stevens' unique educational environment, in which students, faculty and partners in academia, government and industry nurture new technologies from laboratory innovation to marketplace implementation. "With our new MBA program in Technology Management we promote the idea of the multi-dimensional leader," said Ted Stohr, Associate Dean for Research and Academics at the Howe School. "Our graduates are not only proficient in current technologies, but also understand and are able to manage the business implications of these technologies. The partnership with SAP and IDS Scheer enables us to connect our students with leading edge enterprise systems, process management concepts, and the latest research results in the area of Business Process Innovation. This, in turn, will enable them to improve the processes in their organizations, increasing their speed and building competitive advantage." Building on each company's longstanding relationships with leading academic institutions, the SAP and IDS Scheer collaboration consists of joint research projects, executive education programs and a demonstration facility for innovative business process technologies. Stevens Institute of Technology joins a network of universities in the Institute for Business Process Innovation that includes Queensland University of Technology (Australia), George Mason University, Widener University, …cole Polytechniques MontrČal, and the University of Saarbruecken (Germany). "In today's challenging economic environment, the potential for increasing revenue and profitability through improvements in business processes is reshaping the way companies do business," said Dr. Mathias Kirchmer, CEO of IDS Scheer North America. "The adoption of truly innovative approaches to managing business processes will help companies establish a powerful basis for driving future growth. With the Institute for Business Process Innovation, IDS Scheer and SAP are providing a catalyst for collaborative research to spur developments in this important field and will continue to present innovative business solutions to the market." About SAPSAP is the world's leading provider of business software solutions. Through mySAPô Business Suite, people in businesses around the globe are improving relationships with customers and partners, streamlining operations and achieving significant efficiencies throughout their supply chains. The unique core processes of various industries, from aerospace to utilities, are supported effectively by SAP's 23 industry solution portfolios. Today, more than 20,000 companies in over 120 countries run more than 64,500 installations of SAPĆ software. With subsidiaries in more than 50 countries, the company is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE under the symbol "SAP." (Additional information at www.sap.com) About IDS Scheer North AmericaIDS Scheer North America is the leading provider of corporate solutions for business process management. The company's ARIS solutions suite offers a complete portfolio for "Business Process Excellence", including the methodologies, software and solutions to address all phases of the business process lifecycle. From small/medium enterprises to Global 1000 organizations, IDS Scheer provides a wide array of services to help customers optimize, and profit from, their investments in Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) solutions. As a SAP Global Services Partner, IDS Scheer enables customers to maximize their SAP investment and build winning businesses. As part of an organization of more than 2000 employees worldwide and over 200 in North America, IDS Scheer is built upon a foundation of business process excellence that began when the company was founded in 1984 by August-Wilhelm Scheer, widely recognized as a founding father of Business Process Management. For more information on IDS Scheer North America, visit www.ids-scheer.com/us. About Stevens and the Howe SchoolEstablished in 1870, Stevens offers baccalaureate, master's and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science, management and technology management, as well as a baccalaureate in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university, located directly across the Hudson River from Manhattan in Hoboken, New Jersey, has a total enrollment of about 1,740 undergraduates and 2,600 graduate students. Technogenesis, a term trademarked by Stevens, is defined as "the educational frontier where students, faculty and industry jointly nurture new technologies from concept to realization." Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu. |