Omicron

OMICRON SOLVES SAP DATA AND BI NEEDS THROUGH TRIO

BALA CYNWYD, PA OMICRON CONSULTING, a leading technology consulting firm, announced the release of its TRIO Solution today. Designed through a revolutionary architecture and developed by OMICRON, this solution makes it straightforward to extract, display and input data to and from SAP using the baseline Microsoft Office and development products. "This solution is currently helping clients fulfill the data visualization and deployment strategy as a companion to their core SAP implementation," says Randy M. Pritzker, Omicron's CEO. Pritzker continues, "Many of our clients are exhausted, have depleted budgets and are therefore in need of a method to interface with SAP modules to provide access to information now contained with the SAP system. We drew upon most user community's competence with Office as an interface and leveraged a unique architectural approach. Instead of developing new complex SAP GUI's, we implemented Microsoft SharePoint and Silverlight interfaces to SAP. Consequently, this approach enables Omicron to do in just a few months, at a substantially lesser cost, what would otherwise normally take a year within the SAP environment."

The TRIO Solution takes advantage of XML standards in the creation of a configurable interface layer into SAP. This allows users to extract and insert data along with a read/write abstract layer while directing the interface to Microsoft’s UI technologies (Silverlight), SharePoint, Office and others. The power of this interface approach exposes SAP data to a wealth of Microsoft platform products and allows companies to develop reporting, BI, Portal and other line of business applications with the efficiency inherent within the Microsoft tool sets. This also leverages the more available Microsoft skill sets found within most organizations, leaving them less reliant on recruiting and maintaining more expensive SAP staff.

"What we did was to erase the stigma of seeing SAP as this vast and unapproachable data source able to economically address lighter, though critical, data and application needs," comments Al Turano, Practice Manager for TRIO. "We have also made it straightforward to combine SAP data with information from other databases, such as CRM, Project Planning and Production, in order to support the creation of composite applications."

Further information can be found at www.omicron.com.