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Oct 19, 1998

Imperial Motor Group in R7m IT upgrade

The Imperial Motor Group, the biggest Toyota dealer group in South Africa with 22 branches nationwide, is upgrading its dealer management system. The company has selected a Corollary Promaster supplied by Computer Configurations as its new hardware platform.

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Mercedes Benz SA
Aug 14, 1998

Mercedes-Benz SA selects SAP ERP solution

Mercedes-Benz South Africa (MBSA) has opted for SAP R/3 to provide a technology platform to support its business strategy. SAP R/3 is now used by well over 80% of the South African automotive OEM market.

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Toyota
Jul 21, 1998

Toyota SA to implement SAP R/3

Toyota South Africa said its vision of world-class competitiveness, an increased market share and production improvement were the prime motivators behind the company`s decision to implement SAP R/3 enterprise business software solution.

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Jul 10, 1998

Chrysler introduces the first paperless car designs

Chrysler has used Silicon Graphics workstations to design its next generation of full-size sedans, claimed to be the first paperless car designs. Chrysler said the Silicon Graphics` workstations have saved them months of work.

C3 Communications
2:10
May 18, 1998

Audi AG to use SN supercomputer for crash-test simulation

Audi AG is using the VPP300E supercomputer from Siemens Nixdorf to simulate and optimise the behavior of vehicle bodywork in crash situations. With 16 processors, a main memory of 32GB and computing performance reaching 40 GFLOPS, the VPP300E system is among the most powerful supercomputers in the automotive industry in Europe.

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BPCS
Apr 17, 1998

SSA beats JD Edwards for Mazda deal

SSA Automotive has won contracts from one of Mazda Cars Limited (MCL) group`s leading UK automotive aftermarket and supply chain logistics operations, Autoflow. Autoflow has purchased 24 products from the BPCS Client/Server Product line.

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Control-M
Apr 8, 1998

Control keeps BMW in the fast lane

BMW SA says it has slashed its mainframe batch window in half since implementing Control-M, New Dimension`s system scheduler. BMW says the cost savings and benefits of Control-M have raised the bar of IT performance at company`s Rosslyn and Midrand-based plants.

Software Futures
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Ford Motor Company
Mar 11, 1998

Ford takes delivery of Bay Accelar routing switches

Ford Motor Company recently took delivery of the first two Bay Networks' Accelar 1200 routing switches.The switches will be used within Ford's Global TCP/IP Intranet for Gigabit-speed data communications between the Ford facilities.

Nortel Networks