SAE International Completes Month End Reporting in Record Time With AppWorx Enterprise Job Scheduling Solution

    BELLEVUE, Wash.--March 15, 2001--SAE International, a one stop resource for technical information and expertise on self-propelled vehicles, has cut their month-end reporting time from 4 days to only a few hours after installing the enterprise job scheduling product from AppWorx Corporation. (www.appworx.com)
    With AppWorx, SAE has been able to increase the efficiency of month-end processing to complete within an 8-hour run-time, while eliminating the original nighttime staff. Previously, the batch processing was completed manually and involved 4 employees split between day and evening shifts.
    "We can now process more than 300 jobs at month end with no more operator down time," said Todd Love, systems administrator, at SAE. "The intelligence of AppWorx has given us the ability to run our processes unattended. Instead of having to staff someone to stare at a monitor for 45 minutes waiting for a job to finish, I can immediately re-deploy resources wherever needed."
    SAE selected AppWorx both because of its ability to integrate with their custom Customer Management application and its proven ease-of-use in creating event-or condition-dependent job streams. The organization wanted to eliminate the manual processing of nightly, weekly and monthly jobs from an Oracle application that manages customer's data, product sales, membership information and much more. They also sought a way to distribute and allocate system resources to all processes based on the urgency of the process and the system resources required.
    "AppWorx is not only a job scheduler but also a vital resource management tool," said Love. "It allows us to control workflow, and most importantly, ensure an even distribution of resources at any given time. It's a great tool that I highly recommend."
    "Its exciting to see a customer such as SAE continue to find new ways to leverage AppWorx to become more efficient and improve their bottom line even after the initial implementation," said Bill Wrenn, President and CEO of AppWorx Corporation. "What really makes AppWorx unique is its ability to continue to add value as a business expands their operations. What started out for SAE as a project to find a compatible job scheduling solution has evolved into a system to dramatically reduce month end close expenses. I'm confident that SAE and others will continue to utilize both the current and future versions of AppWorx to optimize their application business processes and ultimately reduce IT operating expenses."
    SAE's Information architecture is based on Sun(R) Microsystems servers running a Solaris operating system, while a proprietary Customer Management System interfaces with an Oracle database of nearly 900,000 customers.

    About AppWorx Corporation

    AppWorx Corporation is a leading provider of innovative enterprise scheduling products that have automated application business processes, improved efficiency, and significantly reduced IT operating expenses for over 300 corporations worldwide. AppWorx revolutionary technology and expertise in optimizing software application processing allows organizations worldwide to automate their application business processes across applications and platforms encompassing the entire enterprise. For more information visit our website at (www.appworx.com) or call toll free at 1.877.APPWORX or +44 (0) 1293 897128 in the U.K.

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