ClearOrbit Joins SAP's Enterprise Services Community
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Austin, Texas - April 2, 2007 - ClearOrbit ( www.clearorbit.com ), the leading provider of real-time supply chain execution and reverse logistics solutions, has joined SAP AG's Enterprise Services Community (ES Community), a collaborative, cross-industry program enabling SAP, its partners and customers to define the way software is developed and deployed to solve evolving business requirements. As a member of SAP's ES Community, ClearOrbit will help identify and define the most highly valued enterprise services required by customers, while gaining access to a rich repository of enterprise services.
SAP's ES Community is comprised of more than 170 thought leaders from diverse industries that have come together to share ideas and innovations for future development of enterprise services, helping to facilitate the adoption of enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA). The community includes members from SAP, customers and partners who jointly define enterprise services based on shared priorities. Enterprise services provide the common business language enabling software applications and infrastructure products running on disparate systems to communicate within an enterprise SOA.
"We're excited about the opportunity to co-innovate with SAP, which will allow us to realize rapid, cost-effective product innovation that solves customers' critical business needs and lowers their total cost of ownership," said John Reece, ClearOrbit's President and CEO. "ClearOrbit's unique single data model approach coupled with our focus on complementing SAP® solutions enables our customers to leverage and extend their investments in SAP. This expertise, along with our experience with enterprise services architecture, will allow ClearOrbit to make significant contributions to SAP's ES Community."
Joining SAP's ES Community is further evidence of ClearOrbit's commitment to working together with SAP and supporting SAP solutions. In January 2007, ClearOrbit announced that its Supply Network Gateway(TM) packaged composite application version 6.0 received "SAP xApps(TM) Certified - Powered by SAP NetWeaver®" status. This followed an October 2006 announcement that its Enterprise Returns Management(TM) (ERM) solution version 4.1 earned "Powered by SAP NetWeaver" status. The Powered by SAP NetWeaver designation allows customers who are standardizing on the SAP NetWeaver platform to deploy their SOA infrastructure solution running on top of the SAP NetWeaver platform, rather than investing in another application server platform to provide this infrastructure.
About ClearOrbit
ClearOrbit's real-time supply chain execution and returns management solutions improve the speed, visibility, and control of extended manufacturing and distribution supply chains. Since 1994, Austin, TX-based ClearOrbit has assisted more than 275 clients in automating and controlling process execution within their extended supply networks. ClearOrbit delivers on the promise of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems such as those provided by SAP with fully integrated bar code label management & printing, mobile applications, collaboration and returns management solutions that address "last mile functionality" issues while complementing the existing infrastructure. ClearOrbit customers include market leaders such as Alcoa, Canon, Cisco, GE and Motorola. For more information, visit www.clearorbit.com.
