New Version of 170 MarkView Financial Suite for the SAP ERP System Released
Published: 29 April 2008
New release enriches accounts payable and purchasing users' experience.

The new 170 MarkView Console incorporates 170 MarkView directly into the SAP workspace giving Accounts Payable (AP) and Purchasing users a single, integrated environment inside of SAP where they can perform their AP tasks with direct access to the real-time SAP data for all transactions. With this enhanced integration, all pertinent details from both SAP and 170 MarkView -- invoice image, workflow history, reasons for blocks (e.g., quantity, price or quality) -- are consolidated into a single screen so that users have live access to all essential information without any change of context.

This new release also includes support for SAP 6.0, NetWeaver Application Server, SAP iViews, and BEA WebLogic server. With iViews, 170 MarkView enables line-of-business approvers to access their approvals queue in SAP's portal environment, giving them the option of participating in the process via the SAP interface or a traditional web browser. Invoice rendering - creating an invoice facsimile from electronic data - so that AP staff or general business approvers can work with a traditional "paper invoice" metaphor is supported, as well.

"Numerous ERP clients are considering extending their investments to cover more of the invoice-automation process so that they can maximize organizational efficiency and use of staffing resources," said John Van Decker, Research Vice President, Gartner, Inc., the world's leading information technology research and advisory company. "This pattern speaks to organizations' ongoing need to further reduce operational costs in Finance and Operations in order to use those resources more strategically in other aspects the core business."