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SAP offers broad end-to-end project management suite

6-6-2006

Commercial Project Management aims to help groups outside IT manage big tasks

Overseeing complex projects is a daunting task, which is why these efforts often come in over budget and over time.

SAP AG has a new application it thinks will help bring order to the sometimes chaos.

It announced today Commercial Project Management, which it says brings project-related front- and back-end information into one integrated system and makes it available to project managers, administrators and executives.

The application offers coverage of the lead-to-cash scenario for projects, beginning with selling a project through planning and delivery, SAP [App for iPad aimed at organizing projects

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Commercial Project Management uses SAP Business Suite and contains three packages: project workspace, project cost and revenue planning and project issue and change management. It also can run on the SAP in-memory HANA platform and is mobile-enabled. Additional mobile apps are also made available by partners. For example, partner Mindtree sells mInspect, a mobile app that supports the issue management component of Commercial Project Management, and mWorkspace, a mobile app that provides key information to project managers.

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