The Advantages of the R/3 System Release 3.0 R/3, the global leader in standard business software, defines new levels of performance in Release 3.0. Find out for yourself about the advantages offered by these cross-industry solutions for use in future-oriented client/server environments: * R/3 optimizes the core processes of your company with its integrated applications, accelerates transactions with its Business Workflow, and makes strategic management information available in transparent form at all levels of the company within the framework of its Open Information Warehouse concept. * R/3 with its multiple platform support and openness in its communications, assures strategic freedom in designing your information management concepts. It has been enhanced by the new ALE concept for the consistent storage and controlled exchange of business data between two physically separated application systems. * The R/3 System can be implemented globally. Thanks to its availability in multiple languages and country-specific versions, R/3 fulfills the requirements for use in your subsidiaries around the world. The common data format promotes clear understanding. * R/3 offers ready-made solutions for several hundred business processes; solutions that you - with the support of SAP modeling tools - can use to optimize the processes in your company. The benefits: with its business-oriented functions, R/3 opens up new opportunities for improving your companyÕs market and customer orientation. The high level of flexibility offered by the system meets the new requirements presented by a continually changing market situation: R/3 can be quickly and easily adapted to these changes.