http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx Lastest news from the Vigience office en-us Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:00:00 GMT Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:41:01 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Weblog Editor 2.0 editor@vigience.com (Editor) webmaster@vigience.com (Webmaster) 5 http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx ]]> Vigience is at the "Mastering SAP Plant Maintenance" conference. Mike Edginton - Facilities and Asset Manager, Department of Conservation (New Zealand) - will present the story of how the NZ Department of Conservation successfully implemented SAP Mobile Asset Management (MAM) in September 2008 and improved the mobile application's response times and user acceptance thanks to a MAM client re-design. Vigience will be manning its own booth to show the mobile solution used by the NZ government to interested parties. Event details can be found here: http://www.masteringsap.com/pm/]]>. Please come and visit us to learn more about this great SAP Mobile success story. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:36:50 GMT http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx#item590 http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx ]]> Vigience opens its offices to all its friends during the Japan HQ Open House. Come to what is up at Vigience, meet many hip IT professionals and executives in Tokyo and enjoy the Vigience food and drinks (in whichever order). If you have the time, please drop by but register first here]]> please (or simply call Marc). Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:36:50 GMT http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx#item589 http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx The Enterprise Gateway SaaS service, a collaborative between NEC System Technologies and Vigience to rewrite the book on how to integrate ERP systems with SaaS systems, were a highlight at the Salesforce.com Cloudforce Japan event. The Enterprise Gateway allows for complex integration tasks to be done in minutes instead of weeks and interested customers can start using the SaaS service for free using a developer license. Demonstrations included a 5-min development task of merging SAP-based data sources with non-SAP based data (SQL, Oracle, etc.) in a Sales Portal, as well as the integration of real-time ATP into standard Salesforce.com CRM. ]]> Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:30:30 GMT http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx#item588 http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx On July 10th, the Vigience staff moved into a second office building, aptly named "Vigience Building 2." The original location will be kept, re-furnished and one unit plans to move back there once the summer is over. The additional office reflects our recent expansion which will help to make us a stronger supplier of SAP (and recently non-SAP) enterprise software consulting services by ex-SAP developers (and some new-found heavy-hitting software talents from other companies). Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:25:20 GMT http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx#item587 http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx Vigience cloud computing software and concepts will be demonstrated at the NEC Enterprise Cloud Computing Seminar in Tokyo on the 3rd of July. The seminar will explore enterprise cloud computing concepts and trends; the Vigience-NEC Enterprise Gateway service as an connector between core enterprise systems and SaaS, as well as relevant customer success stories. Presentations will be given by executives from NEC]]>, NEC System Technologies]]>, Salesforce.com]]> and Frontier One. Event and registration details are here (Japanese only): http://www.salesforce.com/jp/events/partner/2009-07-03-2.jsp]]> Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:25:20 GMT http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx#item586 http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx Vodafone shows for the first time the Vodafone Application Service (VAS) applications we helped to build. Check out the fun-to-watch product explanations at http://vas.vodafone.com.]]> These are ready-to-use and fully SAP integrated BlackBerry and Windows Mobile solutions that are offered as a service (Mobile SaaS). Features include support for SAP business rules (customizing settings) on the device, two-way real-time push, and integration with native device functions. For the non-SAP customers out there, these applications also integrate with Salesforce, Oracle and others. Tue, 9 Jun 2009 11:25:20 GMT http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx#item585 http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx At the Fujitsu Forum 2009, Fujitsi demonstrated Vigience developed AJAX-based integration with SAP Business All-in-One to retrieve ATP information]]>. This enables Sales staff to ascertain in real time the availability, quantity, and location of a product in real-time. The AJAX]]> approach by based on standard web-service enabled BAPIs ensures a very low-cost, light-weight but effective integration between an Internet-based Sales Portal on Salesforce.com and SAP Business All-in-One ]]>. Fri, 15 May 2009 11:39:20 GMT http://www.vigence.com/News.aspx#item584 http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx The Open positions]]> page was just updated with new offerings for Contractors. Fri, 1 May 2009 11:25:20 GMT http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx#item583 http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx Vigience and NEC System Technologies collaborate on a new SaaS offering: the Enterprise Gateway service will provide unique on-demand connectivity between SAP, Salesforce.com, Oracle, SQL Server, BI tools and other systems. This is "Integration-as-a-Service" and will be of particular interest to a lot of SAP customers. The option to have SAP data natively available on-demand in Salesforce.com's enterprise cloud computing platform provides a powerful incentive to any SAP customer to do their SAP add-on developments in Force.com. Since both Force.com and the Enterprise Gateway are provided as a subscription-based service, customers can avoid upfront expenses and only need to pay based on actual usage. Vigience and NEC System Technologies will jointly develop and market the service. See the Press release]]> for more information (for our Japanese readers, please read the Japanese press release]]>). Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:13:10 GMT http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx#item582 http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx www.vigience.com]]> is now also available in Japanese. About 50% of the content is now available and we plan to achieve 100% Japanese language coverage within one month. The link to switch languages is right under the logo in the top right corner of the web pages. Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:45:34 GMT http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx#item581 http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx Vigience is holding another one of their famous "Fests", this one is to welcome Spring into our neighborhood - The Spring BBQ Fest. Please join us on 24.04.09 and get an early start on the weekend by enjoying some BBQ food and refreshing beverages in the open air (weather permitting). Access Map]]>. Festivities start at High Noon (12:00) and will go on till 16:00. We will then move on to the next venue which will be determined soon. Bring a ball, a frisbee a hacky sack or anything to have fun with. Please RSVP Marc]]> so he can make sure you will also get something to eat and drink (and to inform you in case of cancellation due to weather). Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:05:30 GMT http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx#item580 http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx Vigience is proud to present two new teaser videos for the Vigience SAP Mobile Asset Management Performance Pack (MAMPP): Vigience MAMPP maintenance]]> and Vigience MAMPP inspection]]>. Check out how fast and smooth Vigience can make your MAM application run. For Inquiries, please contact Marc]]> and while you are at it, check out our other videos in our showcase]]>. Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:12:00 GMT http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx#item579 http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx New Zealand's Department of Conservation (DOC]]>), Soltius]]> and Vigience today jointly presented to an NZSUG]]> expert audience how New Zealand’s national parks are managed with a highly enhanced Mobile Asset Management. There was a lot of interest in the DOC solution]]> and good discussions around it. If you missed the presentation but are interested in learning more then please contact us for information on the next opportunity or for a custom tailored webinar. Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:22:00 GMT http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx#item578 http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx If a picture speaks a thousand words, then a video must speak ..... well a very large number! Get yourself some popcorn and enjoy - Vigience launches Vigience Videos]]> with two teaser videos introducing our BlackBerry applications for SAP, Saleforce.com and Oracle. Several more will be ... "Coming Soon!" to a Vigience website near you! Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:00:21 GMT http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx#item577 http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx A major overhaul of the www.vigience.com]]> web presence has just been completed. For the first time since incorporation, we found the time to properly redo the web presence and launched our public image 2.0 today. Please watch this news section for future news-worthy updates (or subscribe to our RSS news feed and/or newsletter). Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:34:01 GMT http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx#item576 http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx Vigience renewed its certification status and became the first company to be certified on the Dexterra Concert]]> platform for BlackBerry development. Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:39:21 GMT http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx#item575 http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx Thank you our customers, partners, suppliers, employees, employees' families, investors and friends of Vigience. We wish you a Happy New Year and hope we can count your support again in 2009 as well. Thu, 1 Jan 2009 09:00:00 GMT http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx#item574 http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx One of the world's largest food exporters went live with their SAP GTS system at the beginning of the month and has started processing its exports electronically with this productive system. This includes electronic customs declarations via EDI that are generated based on SAP ERP delivery and invoice documents as well as the world's first GTS deployment able to process EDI change messages (implemented by Vigience). Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:39:21 GMT http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx#item573 http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx Yesterday's Novemberfest following an interesting SAP Tech World in Tokyo was a great success. Thanks to all that participated and helped to make it as much fun as it was. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:06:42 GMT http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx#item572 http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx Marc Hrabak, an old-time SAP veteran (D000340) in SAP's Finance section, joined Vigience as head of operations. He set up SAP AG's global cost center structure in 1992 before heading up SAP North East Asia's internal business consulting unit and becoming their head of controlling in the late nineties. After spending the beginning of the new millenium in Hawaii setting up a successful coffee & wine bar ("Living the good life"), he decided to come back to Japan and join his ex-colleagues at the up and coming start-up that is Vigience... Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:37:32 GMT http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx#item571 http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx The New Zealand government's Department of Conservation success story around SAP Plant Maintenance and Mobile Asset Management is going to be presented at this year's "Mastering SAP Plant Maintenance" event. Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:56:02 GMT http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx#item570 http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx Several week of pilot usage have given the SAP New Zealand government's Department of Conservation the confidence to go-live with their SAP-based asset inspection and maintenance solution implemented by Vigience. Wed, 3 Sep 2008 01:23:11 GMT http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx#item569 http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx Vigience developers are part of a large eSOA implementation project designed to test the viability of SAP's eSOA tools for large-scale enterprise software projects. Tue, 2 Sep 2008 09:25:33 GMT http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx#item568 http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx Vigience today announced that it shall be participating in the upcoming Ayala Group ICT Summit 2008 dubbed "Extending Progress Through ICT - Productivity, Innovation, Impact" to be held at the Edsa Shangrila Hotel from August 27-28, 2008. We are honored to have been invited to join in this year's Ayala Group ICT Summit 2008 and look forward to this unique opportunity to showcase Vigience's solution offerings to the Ayala Group of companies. We see a lot of potential for Ayala to increase its satisfaction and usage of its SAP system. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:02:13 GMT http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx#item567 http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx msc mobile, a co-organizer of a series of SAP events in Germany and Austria to demonstrate modern travel management processes, will be demonstrating the intuitive Vigience BlackBerry Time & Expense application as part of their presentations. http://www.schneller-ans-ziel.net/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:21:13 GMT http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx#item566 http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx The brand-new F1100 Smartphone from Fujitsu was demonstrated for the first time at this year's Fujitsu-SAP event. The device was pre-loaded with Vigience's smartphone solutions for SAP. Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:15:33 GMT http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx#item565 http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx Research In Motion invited Vigience to demonstrate its Japanese-localised enterprise solutions on BlackBerry devices at this year's Interop event. Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:00:00 GMT http://www.vigience.com/News.aspx#item564