Basis Technologies is exhibiting in Sapphire in Orlando, Florida USA. Sapphire runs between May 11th to May 14th at the Orlando County Convention Centre. If you are at the conference please come and say hello on stand 445.

Hasbro is a worldwide leader in children's and family leisure time products and services with a rich portfolio of brands and entertainment properties such as Playskool, Tonka, Milton Bradley and Parker Brothers. Hasbro is using Transport Express to support a growing amount of SAP change across a global SAP landcape and geographically diverse teams.

Clarks, a highly successfully privately-owned maker and retailer of footwear uses Transport Express to bring about greater productivity in their SAP change process. Transport Express is being used to reduce labour effort around system synchronisation, change governance and authorisation/approval practices. Clarks implemented and adopted Transport Express within a matter of days.

EDF UK, one of the UK's larget energy retailers, is now utilising the power of Basis Technologies' MDR for dramatically improved reporting and processing performance. MDR will play an important role in EDF UK's implementation of their world class billing system in SAP IS-U.

Electricite de France (EDF), a massive energy provider in France are utilising the power of Basis Technologies' MDR for dramatically improved performance as their SAP IS-U billing system scales up to handle some 30 million customers. Using MDR, significant performance improvements have been made in how key reports and processes scale across the existing hardware environments to meet business demands.

Alstom is undergoing an SAP global template and release strategy, delivered over several years country by country. There was a need for a tool to assist in the delivery of change and support of this release strategy. The strategy is in fact a country acquisition strategy, where initial country business units will be introduced sequentially, followed by multiple countries introduced in parallel.

Whilst the initial scope for Transport Express was to ease the burden of transporting and reduce the risks associated with many transports and changes across complex environments, Transport Express also supports life after ‘go-live’ by facilitating interactivity with the business community to drive necessary change.

Expressed another way; Transport Express will prove its value during the build phase, but also in the production support phase. Alstom expects to find this to be significant advantage.

AGL is a leading Australian Energy company about to go-live with a new implementation of SAP IS-Utilities. Transport Express was introduced into AGL to provide efficiency and assurance to the SAP change management process. Having used Transport Express with other Basis Technologies’ client sites, the SAP team knew the benefits of TE in managing a Release Strategy approach and merging parallel paths of change into Production.

Vattenfall is a leading European energy company that has recently gone live with a new implementation of SAP IS-Utilities.

Key issues identified and addressed by Transport Express were:

• Eradicating many regression points in introducing changes, including duplication of effort
• Reducing administrative costs and significant time-savings by halving the number of manual processes (e.g. emails and phone calls)
• Improving by a factor of 5 the number of automated processes
• Introducing a structured and simplified change process that is easy to enforce - delivering greater and more effective communication (visibility) between the on-shore and off-shore team

When Basis Technologies originally launched LogonX over five years ago, we were hoping that the SAP community would find it as useful and as easy to use as we did at the time. Since then, with only minor upgrades to the product, LogonX has proven so popular that we continue to get multiple downloads every day, and now are creeping up to our 5000th download.

An expanding user group of this size demands a response from us, and so with this anniversary pending we decided to embark on a development program for LogonX designed to increase its usefulness and usability.

The first phase of this development is now complete, with

• a more modern Windows XP look-and-feel
• the ability to Group your systems simply by drag-and-drop
• the ability to Rename your systems

We invite you to download the latest version, LogonX 2005.

The second phase is in the pipe-line. We are currently gathering requirements from our valued users to enhance LogonX further to make your life that little bit easier.

Our client is one of the world’s largest petroleum and energy companies, providing its customers with fuel for transportation, energy for heat and light, retail services and petrochemicals products for everyday items.

On behalf of our client, a leading support services company recognised the need and advantages in employing a transport (change) management solution to assist in delivering on a key project consisting of SAP R/3, BW and XI.

Our client needed simplification and control in the management and coordination of SAP transports in a complex SAP environment. They selected Transport Express against all other alternatives to fulfil these requirements.

Basis Technologies deployed Transport Express in a matter of days and continues to provide intimate and timely support.

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Basis Technologies' announces the release of MDR 6.30 Service Pack 1. SP1 contains a number of fixes and enhancements focused on usability and performance.

• The Run History report has been enhanced to provide additional useful information to the user. It is now possible at a glance to see the percentage completion of the report, giving a better idea when the report will finish. You are now also able to get a more complete picture of the resources currently used for a report.
  
  
• To allow for more richness in the custom selection screens, the "Technical Settings" have been moved to a menu option rather than on an application tab. This removes some previous limitations to the custom application selection screen.
  
  
• Report runs can now be labelled, giving more meaning to historical runs. This simplifies the task of navigating and isolating specific historical runs.
  
  
• It is now possible to simply change a setting when running a report to reduce the number of application log messages for a run. This is done by selecting the importance of the messages to log. This saves valuable database space as well as speeds up processing in the production environment.
  
  
• A number of fixes have also been addressed in SP1.

For more information about MDR or SP1, please contact Basis Technologies at support@basistechnologies.com

Basis Technologies' announces the release of Transport Express 4.6.4 Service Pack 4. SP 4 contains a number of fixes and enhancements focused on useability.

• TE allows a new type of user to be configured; an Importer. Importers are people who have authorisation to import changes into a target, but do not have the other responsibilities of an administrator. Importers can be defined in a similar manner as approvers. For example, it is possible to allow Importers to import only "Finance" changes.
  
  
• TE now includes a utility that is used to simplify the process of rebuilding an SAP system after it has been restored from a database backup. This is useful when for example a QA system is restored from a database copy of production. The utility adds the appropriate change requests to the import queue of the rebuilt system based on the date and time the backup was made.
  
  
• A number of fixes, additional reporting functionality and project maintenance authorisation are also included in SP4.

For more information about service pack 4, or to arrange a download of the service pack, please contact Basis Technologies at support@basistechnologies.com