Third-Party Solutions for R/3

September 1997 / Reseller / Thinking Small(er) with SAP / Third-Party Solutions for R/3

SAP is fastidious about certification and its R/3 product. But with a technology as expansive as R/3, there's always ro om for peripheral products to supplement the core package.
TSI International Software's Mercator for R/3, for example, eliminates the need to write custom ABAP codes for data-conversion tasks. Mercator provides a graphical environment for creating ALE interfaces for drag-and-drop conversion to and from R/3 formats. The program cuts the time and skill level needed to integrate information, and it supports information definitions that R/3 doesn't support, including COBOL copybooks and relational databases.
Computer Associates' ARCserve Backup Agent for SAP R/3 backs up data while R/3 applications are open and in use. This means that the system can be backed up without a system crash and ensures that users' mission-critical data is protected from human error. The product gives administrators the option of managing backup tasks from either SAP's BACKINT interface or ARCserve's GUI.

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