SAP.3D.Visual.Enterprise.Author.v8.0.SP4.MP1 Accelerate decision making, optimize productivity, and improve quality – with software that integrates 3D visualization and business data across your value chain. With SAP 3D Visual Enterprise applications, you can remove the obstacles that have inhibited communication between your lines of business and your customers and partners. Accelerate decision making across all lines of business Optimize productivity with visual access Improve product quality and optimize process efficiency by communicating visually Lower operating costs and reduce product lifecycles SAP NEWSBYTE - SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced the availability of SAP Visual Enterprise applications, which represent the initial offerings resulting from the acquisition of Right Hemisphere 3-D visualization technologies. The new software combines the inherent strength of SAP Business Suite with related visual product and plant content, providing existing and new SAP customers access to contextual and reliable visual information in an intuitive visual format. Improved time to market, more efficient operational processes, higher productivity and superior product and service quality are just a few of the benefits customers can derive from deploying SAP Visual Enterprise applications. Specifically, the software enables collaborative views of products and assets, guides manufacturing and maintenance processes through animated assembly and repair instructions and facilitates better business directions with integrated business and visual information. SAP Visual Enterprise software consists of three core products: SAP Visual Enterprise Generator application: a processing engine that translates nearly any 3-D computer-aided design (CAD) file into a lightweight file format used in downstream processes. It can also be configured to support specific work processes in engineering, manufacturing and maintenance. SAP Visual Enterprise Author application: an end-user application that creates animated procedures, 3-D embedded documents and high-definition imagery. SAP Visual Enterprise Viewer application: a lightweight, powerful, easy-to-use, free-of-charge end-user tool to view and interact with the authored and published content.