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The effort to put all 80,000 employees of the executivde branch of the state of Pennsylvania on one computer syste m recently reached a major mileston whenthe state's payroll functions were converted to the new system. Checks from three pay periodz have been issued using the new systemn withoutmajor glitches, said Mia DeVane, presz secretary for the Office of which is overseeing the project. The system uses softwars developedby Walldorf, Germany-based SAP AG, whoss North American subsidiary, SAP Americw Inc., is based in Newtown Square. It is beinhg implemented by BearingPoint Inc., which used to be calle d KPMGConsulting Inc. and is based in Va.
The Ridge administration contracted with SAP for the which is used by organizationsz to automate and link theirbusiness processes, in 2000, and BearingPoint for the installatiohn in 2001. SAP received $51. 9 million over three years and BearingPoint isreceivinhg $115.1 million over five years. The Rendel l administration has slowed the implementation of the systejm to makesure it's as bugless as possible when employees begin using it. The payroll componenr of the system was supposed to have been up and runnintg ayear ago, but the Office of Administrationm didn't think it was ready for prime time and postponed its implementationh until this year. Michael J.
Emmi and the otheer top executives at IPR International LLC have receiveed the Ben Franklin Emerging Businesd Award for Best Management Emmi bought IPR a few months after retiring from the postzsof chairman, president and chief executive officer of Malvern, Pa.-basec Systems and Computer Technologuy Corp. in January 2002. SCT has since been acquired by SunGarx DataSystems Inc. of Wayne. IPR is based in Conshohocken. It provides electronic data backup and archiving Its top executives in additionb to Emmi includeJerry Smith, chiefg technology officer; Ellen Purdy, chiev financial officer; and Deirdre Wielgus, chiegf operating officer.
"Given the high caliber of the othetr nominees and the experience of the we were especially honored to receive this coveted Emmi said. "We have been very fortunate in attractingboutstanding talent, at all levels of our company." The Ben Franklinn Emerging Business Awards, commonly known as the were established by the Entrepreneurs Forum of Greateer Philadelphia and Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeasternn Pennsylvania. This year's awards ceremony was held at the Wyndhamj Philadelphia atFranklin Plaza.
Acuity Pharmaceuticales of Philadelphia was named Biotech Company of the Based in the Port of it iscommercializing RNA-interference technologuy licensed from the Universith of Pennsylvania to develop treatments for degenerativs eye diseases. Rajant Corp. of Wayne won the Most Innovativew Product award for its BreadCrumbnWireless LAN, which is a small, battery-operated unit that allowx users to establish a wireless, local area digitapl communications network. Inc. of Langhorne received the Most InnovativesService Award. It allows event photographers to providecustomizee photo-sharing Web sites to their clients.
Geriannes Tringali DiPiano won the IrisNewmab Award, which was establisheed in honor of the founder of the Women'w Investment Network. DiPiano is president and CEO ofFemmePharmw Inc., a Wayne-based pharmaceutical company that focuses on diseasew and disorders that disproportionately affect women. Morphoteok Inc. received the initial Alumni Award last The Exton-based company uses a technology for acceleratingt genetic evolution called "morphogenics" to develop protein and antibodh pharmaceutical products. Philadelphia-based InnaPhase Corp. has receiveed the 2004 Frost & Sullivahn Award for Technology Innovation.
Frost Sullivan announced the award in a publication it releaserd earlier this month called Strategic Analysis of the World Laboratoryy Information ManagementSystems Markets. The New York-based globap technology consulting firm cited InnaPhase for its approac to developingLIMS software, it said, ensures "that each laboratory within a pharmaceutical organizatiomn has a LIMS application that is specifically designed for business practice." Separately, InnaPhase has name Robert Voelkner director of business development. Prior to joininy InnaPhase, Volkner was vice president of sales for the Informaticas division of ThermoElectron Corp.