Visiprise Joins Forces With SAP To Provide An Integrated Discrete Manufacturing Solution

Visiprise, Inc., a recognized leader in helping manufacturers manage and control global operations to improve quality and compliance, today announced it has entered into a partnership with SAP AG (NYSE: SAP). This collaborative development and marketing agreement will result in the ability to offer a turnkey business software solution, based upon SAP NetWeaver to the discrete manufacturing markets.

Under the agreement, Visiprise will port its flagship manufacturing execution system, Visiprise Manufacturing, to the SAP NetWeaver platform. The two companies are working together to create integrated business processes taking advantage of both applications? superior technological backbones. SAP and Visiprise will jointly market and sell the integrated manufacturing solution promoting the compelling benefits of a quicker installation and lower total cost of ownership. The arrangement calls for joint commitments in marketing, development and revenue sharing.

"This partnership further validates Visiprise Manufacturing as an enterprise-class shop floor asset for discrete manufacturers," said Sean McCloskey, president and CEO of Visiprise. "By partnering with SAP, we are able take advantage of the powerful SAP NetWeaver architecture and enable SAP's adaptive manufacturing strategy by extending the reach of the integrated solution."

The two companies are working with a global customer to combine real-time manufacturing performance management data with Visiprise's complex traceability functionality to deliver information to the user through SAP® manufacturing dashboards. Initially focused on hi-tech and contract manufacturing, the solution will include additional business processes from the automotive and aerospace and defense industries.

"We are excited to see these two companies collaborate on a joint solution" said Patrick Murray, CIO of Philips Lighting Electronics. "Both SAP and Visiprise serve critical needs for Philips and to see them work together to provide a more integrated solution for their customers is a very positive event."

"Visiprise and SAP have been showing up in the same places for years," added Greg Gorbach, vice president of Collaborative Manufacturing, ARC Advisory Group. "From a manufacturer's perspective, this makes both SAP NetWeaver and Visiprise Manufacturing even more compelling solutions, because the need for enterprise and plant systems to work together has never been greater."

About Visiprise
With more than 18 years of industry experience and proven success, Visiprise is the leading solution provider to help manufacturers drive manufacturing results throughout the global enterprise. Visiprise software, services and expertise work in tandem with our customers to manage and control manufacturing operations to improve product quality and compliance management.

More than 140 leading manufacturers in industries from electronics and automotive to medical devices and aerospace and defense are managing and controlling manufacturing operations with Visiprise. Atlanta-based Visiprise has customers around the globe, including BAE Systems, Celestica, Philips Lighting, Sun Microsystems and Textron. For more information, visit www.visiprise.com.