SAP Public Services Strengthens Position in Higher Education
With Successful 'Go Live'
WASHINGTON, July 30 /PRNewswire/ --
SAP Public Services, Inc., today announced that the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) successfully deployed SAP(R) human resources, materials management and financial management solutions. UAMS replaced fragile legacy systems with a stable, complete SAP solution to improve its business processes. The deployment of SAP solutions streamlines administrative processes and allows faculty and staff members to dedicate more resources to medical education, medical research and mission-critical healthcare.
The software implementation is part of Project Mercury, a UAMS initiative to standardize operations around SAP-defined best-business practices and increase administrative effectiveness, including the grants management process that is critical for academic medical institutions. The SAP solution allows UAMS researchers and project managers to access detailed, specific, year-to- year information on grants and better direct multiyear institutional research.
The SAP solution also will facilitate management decisions about cost reporting and cost control capabilities, enabling UAMS to address more easily all mandatory legal, regulatory and management reporting requirements. In addition, 1,100 employees at UAMS will process 3,032 paperless business transactions (excluding internal and external reports) more quickly and efficiently using SAP solutions. In the past, all transactions were paper- based and manually entered into the system. The electronic transactions eliminate several administrative steps and increase the speed and accuracy of the functions; as a result, processes that used to take hours now take minutes.
"The opportunity that Project Mercury brings for alignment of business processes with institutional goals is unprecedented," said Dr. I. Dodd Wilson, chancellor of UAMS. "The implementation of SAP will significantly enhance the ability of UAMS to compete in the healthcare marketplace, to continue its groundbreaking research, to provide high-quality patient care and to remain a leader in medical education. It will make UAMS a more efficient provider of service to the students, patients and citizens of Arkansas."
"UAMS engaged in Project Mercury as a business initiative," said Mary Donoho, associate vice chancellor of Administration and Fiscal Affairs at UAMS. "We look forward to the cost savings that will be realized from Project Mercury."
Founded in 1879 as a proprietary medical school, UAMS is part of the University of Arkansas system, with approximately 1,875 students in six academic divisions. UAMS is Arkansas' only comprehensive academic health center. Project Mercury supports access to SAP systems for the state of Arkansas, which recently deployed mySAP(TM) human resources and financial solutions. The SAP solution brought more than 35,000 state employees onto a shared, integrated administrative system.
"UAMS' Project Mercury and the statewide deployment of SAP solutions demonstrate Arkansas' commitment to embrace technology to better serve its citizens," said Tom Shirk, president of SAP Public Services. "SAP is uniquely qualified to provide academic institutions, healthcare providers and state governments with the solutions and services necessary to become the best-run public-service organizations."
About SAP Public Services, Inc.
SAP Public Services, Inc., is a subsidiary of SAP America, Inc., which is a subsidiary of SAP AG, the world's leading provider of e-business software solutions. With mySAP.com(R), SAP integrates its extensive business and industry expertise into a comprehensive platform of e-business solutions, services and technology. The mySAP.com(R) e-business platform is a family of solutions and services that empower employees, customers and business partners to collaborate successfully -- anywhere, any time. SAP Public Services enables public-sector organizations to fully engage their employees, customers and partners to drive the new Internet economy. mySAP.com allows organizations from government, utilities, education and healthcare organizations to harness the power of the Internet to work smarter, better and faster by optimizing resources, managing internal and external customer relationships, sharing virtual information, increasing productivity and serving constituent needs. SAP Public Services has more than 250 employees and is headquartered in the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C. More information about the company is available at http://www.sap.com/usa/publicservices .
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