Accenture

Accenture and Impress Software are working together to provide their clients a world class packaged integration solution to optimize their EPM and GIS systems with SAP. The alliance, which became official in September 2006, brings companies the best and most innovative integration solutions to meet the demands of a changing marketplace. Customers can take advantage of the powerful combination of Impress's packaged integration products and Accenture's expertise to optimize their investments in Enterprise Asset Management, Enterprise Project Management and Spatial Asset Management.

“Impress Software is proud to have the world’s largest systems integrator validate Impress for EPM and Impress for GIS as a best practice for companies that are integrating EPM or GIS solutions into their SAP ERP system" states Geoffrey Glaser, Global VP of Business Development and Alliances. "We look forward to working with the Accenture team on a global basis to implement Impress solutions for our mutual customers."

About Accenture
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With deep industry and business process expertise, broad global resources and a proven track record, Accenture can mobilize the right people, skills, and technologies to help clients improve their performance. With approximately 140,000 people in 48 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$16.65 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2006.

Impress for EPM 3.1 is Now Available!

Whether you’re using Impress for EPM to optimally manage IT or Capital Projects, Turnarounds, or Routine Maintenance, you’ll benefit from many of the new features available in Impress for EPM 3.1.

Search for Real Estate Module Experts

Help us define our next Impress for GIS release. Are you using the SAP Real Estate module? Do you also use GIS? Would you like to see your SAP Real Estate data on a map? How about executing SAP processes directly from the map? If you answered yes to any of these questions, we would like to talk to you. Our product management team is currently evaluating an integration solution between GIS and the SAP Real Estate module and is looking for industry experts to talk to about processes, work flows and integration points. To find out more about participating in this project, email us.

We Want To Hear From You!

The Impress Product Management team is always looking for new product features that will improve our customers' business processes, increase their reliability and accountability, and improve employee effectiveness. Features like the ones included in the Maintenance & Operations Module of the Impress for GIS product or the Capital Project improvements in the most recent release of Impress for EPM were developed as a result of customer feedback and suggestions.

We are proud to offer you solutions that provide best-of-breed features and best practices for various strategic initiatives, such as plant turnarounds and routine maintenance. To that end, we invite you to actively participate in our requirements gathering by emailing us product feedback as well as new feature ideas and suggestions.

Impress Receives First to Market Partner Award

This past October project management professionals from around the globe gathered in

Stefan Frank, Impress, accepts award from Mike Angiulo, Microsoft

Seattle, WA at the annual global congress of PMI – the Project Management Institute. Microsoft hosted the event and utilized the opportunity to offer a sneak peek into their new 2007 release of Microsoft Office Project which is scheduled to be available in upcoming months. Throughout the year Impress has collaborated intensely with Microsoft to prepare for this launch. As a result, Impress is geared up to launch the Impress for EPM solution in conjunction with Microsoft’s 2007 release. This close collaboration not only helped Impress and our customers prepare for the truly exciting new features but it also enabled Microsoft to gain significant real world insight into their beta releases. The Impress solution is arguably among the most demanding uses of the Microsoft API in terms of data volume and reliability. At the PMI event, Microsoft acknowledged our help with 2007 when Mike Angiulo, the general manager of the Microsoft Project Business Division, handed us a First to Market Partner award.

Improving Synch Time

After restarting an Impress server, it can take some time to synchronize the data for the first time, due to the fact that all libraries have to be loaded and the source code must be translated. However, the compiled code is only cached, not stored in the db! Therefore, to get the fully compiled code in the database, use the development workbench and select “compile all”. This will compile all source code AND save them to the database so that the next time you restart the engine, your code will be translated already.

How To Refresh A Connection

To refresh a connection, use the Engine Admin Tool.
Choose Connectivity / Connectors

The default connection is impCoMspGenericBEConnector. Use the drop down menu to choose the connection you want to refresh. Click Edit at the bottom of the screen and then click Save without actually making any edits. This will refresh the connection.