SAP applications ecosystem spawns new capabilities, performance opportunities

摘要

When discussion steers toward concepts such as partner ecosystems and integration middleware, the business imperatives behind the concepts can get lost pretty easily. But not for Tom Alloway and other managers at NOVA Chemicals. Alloway is corporate advanced process control (APC) leader at the Pittsburgh-based manufacturer of plastics and chemicals. He says NOVA is using a composite application based on software from SAP and its partner Pavilion Technologies that combines Pavilion's predictive capabilities for plant-floor performance with data drawn from an SAP ERP system to arrive at profit-related insight that optimizes capacity. SAP's NetWeaver integration and application platform-as well as its efforts in building a strong partner ecosystem-helped make such solutions possible.