CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
4 August 2008
Product News
Primavera Systems® and Vesta Partners, LLC Announce Strategic Alliance
Primavera Systems, Inc. announced a strategic alliance with Vesta Partners, LLC, a top provider of maintenance management and enterprise asset management technology services. Vesta provides expertise in joining Primavera PPM and SAP ERP to better integrate capital, shutdown and routine maintenance business processes. The alliance will help meet the growing demand for solutions to enable organizations to realize the full potential of investments in SAP and Primavera. Vesta also will deploy Primavera Inspire®, a NetWeaver-based Primavera-SAP integration solution.
“Our numerous projects, financial management and business operations are interwoven and dependent on one another,” said David Nemetz, Global Planning Systems Project Manager for Houston-based FMC Technologies. “We wanted our Primavera and SAP systems to be fully integrated and implemented in a holistic fashion to realize the full value of these investments and ensure that our decision-making process stems from a complete analysis of the facts. The integration and implementation of Primavera Inspire, coupled with the expertise of Vesta, will enable us to realize this goal quickly and effectively.”
“Companies that don’t fully integrate their Primavera and SAP systems are often making important decisions based on only half of the information available,” said Martin Stenzig of Vesta. “Our intimate familiarity with SAP systems, expertise in enterprise asset management, and our understanding of Primavera Inspire enables Vesta to help companies successfully and quickly navigate what for others is often a daunting task—the full integration of global Primavera and SAP systems. With Inspire, customers maximize the use of SAP and still can take advantage of the leading PPM program on the market.”
Primavera Inspire provides companies with a fully integrated project plan so they can be confident that data shared between systems is perfectly aligned. As a result, the entire organization—from project managers in the field to financial leaders in the boardroom—gains unprecedented visibility into past, present and expected project performance to ensure that schedules are met, budgets are maintained and resources are properly and economically allocated. Inspire is built using SAP NetWeaver® Process Integration (SAP NetWeaver PI), which enables SAP’s existing protocols and rules to remain intact.
Vesta, a certified SAP services partner, is well known for its expertise and track record of success implementing and supporting SAP for Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) within global SAP and Primavera customers.
Vesta brings significant expertise in the implementation of SAP’s plant maintenance and material management modules, as well as the integration of other critical SAP systems through Inspire.
The alliance between Primavera and Vesta also includes collaboration on a variety of other SAP- and Inspire-related services. Vesta currently provides a full range of services and workshops that focus on project readiness, system analysis, planning and scheduling, third-party solution support, and SAP maintenance.
“Inspire enables our customers to rely on Primavera as a single source for the solutions they need to integrate their Primavera and SAP systems,” said Dean Edmundson, Director of Global Alliances at Primavera. “Through our alliance with Vesta, our customers can quickly and effectively integrate their Primavera and SAP systems on a global scale. Primavera is committed to putting solid partners in place that put our clients on a fast track for realizing the return on investment we deliver.”
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