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Purdue NewsNOTE TO JOURNALISTS: Journalists are welcome to cover the laboratory dedication at 8:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 29, in Room 756 of the Krannert Building.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- This fall, students in Purdue University's Krannert School of Management will use a new computer lab to learn a new way of looking at the business world.
The Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Integration Laboratory will be dedicated at 8:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 29, in the Krannert Building. The lab, one of only five of its kind in the country, will house an HP NetServer, 35 HP Vectra Computers and related equipment funded by a $141,000 grant from Hewlett-Packard. Hewlett-Packard has contributed more than $2.5 million in equipment to the Krannert School since 1986.
The lab also features R/3 business software created by SAP America Inc., a global software company. R/3 simultaneously integrates business functions that manage operations and information across a business, including manufacturing, finance, accounting and human resource departments.
Krannert professors have learned R/3 philosophy and gained hands-on experience over the summer. The new software will be taught to undergraduates in the manufacturing management program and to master's students in the operations curriculum.
Companies that use R/3 software include Owens-Corning, Compaq, Chevron, and Colgate-Palmolive.
Among those attending the dedication will be Manuel Diaz, vice president and general
manager, Solutions and Sales Delivery Group, Hewlett-Packard; Robert Bouzon, University
Affairs, Hewlett-Packard; and Dennis Weidenaar, dean of the Krannert School of Management.
CONTACT: Tamyra Gibson, director of public relations, Krannert School of Management,
(765) 494-4392; e-mail, gibson@mgmt.purdue.edu
Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; e-mail, purduenews@purdue.edu
