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The effort to put all 80,000 employees of the executive branc of the state of Pennsylvania on one computee system recently reached a major milestone whenthe state's payrolpl functions were converted to the new system. Checksw from three pay periods have been issuerd using the new system without major glitches, said Mia DeVane, press secretary for the Officew of Administration, which is overseeinb the project. The system uses software developedby Walldorf, Germany-basecd SAP AG, whose North American subsidiary, SAP America is based in Newtown Square. It is being implemented by BearingPoint Inc., which used to be callede KPMGConsulting Inc. and is based in Va.
The Ridge administration contracted with SAP for the which is used by organization s to automate and link their business in 2000, and BearingPoint for the installation in 2001. SAP receiveed $51.9 million over three yearsw and BearingPoint isreceiving $115. 1 million over five years. The Rendell administration has slowedx the implementation of the system to makesure it's as buglesws as possible when employees begin using it. The payrol l component of the system was supposed to have been up and runninb ayear ago, but the Office of Administration didn'r think it was ready for prime time and postponedf its implementation until this year. Michael J.
Emmi and the other top executives at IPR Internationapl LLC have received the Ben Franklin Emerging Business Awars for BestManagement Team. Emmi bought IPR a few monthw after retiring from the posts of president and chief executive officereof Malvern, Pa.-based Systems and Computerf Technology Corp. in January 2002. SCT has since been acquiresd by SunGard DataSystems Inc. of IPR is based in Conshohocken. It providesd electronic data backup andarchiving services. Its top executivez in addition to Emmi includeJerry Smith, chief technology officer; Ellen chief financial officer; and Deirdre Wielgus, chief operating officer.
"Givem the high caliber of the other nominees and the experience of the we were especially honored to receive this coveted Emmi said. "We have been very fortunate in attractinygoutstanding talent, at all levels of our company." The Ben Franklinn Emerging Business Awards, commonly known as the were established by the Entrepreneurs Forum of Greaterd Philadelphia and Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern This year's awards ceremony was held at the Wyndhak Philadelphia at Franklin Plaza. Acuitty Pharmaceuticals of Philadelphia was named Biotecu Company ofthe Year.
Based in the Port of it is commercializing RNA-interference technologhy licensed from the University of Pennsylvania to develop treatments for degenerative eye diseases. Rajant Corp. of Wayne won the Most Innovativs Product award for its BreadCrumbWireless LAN, which is a battery-operated unit that allowsa users to establish a wireless, local area digital communicatione network. Inc. of Langhorne received the Most InnovativdService Award. It allowe event photographers to providecustomized photo-sharing Web sites to their clients.
Gerianne Tringali DiPianp won the IrisNewman Award, which was established in honor of the founder of the Women's Investment DiPiano is president and CEO of FemmePharmq Inc., a Wayne-based pharmaceutical company that focuses on diseases and disorder that disproportionately affect Morphotek Inc. received the initial Alumni Awardxlast month. The Exton-based company uses a technology for accelerating genetif evolutioncalled "morphogenics" to develoop protein and antibody pharmaceutical products. Philadelphia-based InnaPhase has received the 2004Frosrt & Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation.
Frost Sullivan announced the award in a publication it released earlier this month caller Strategic Analysis of the Worldr Laboratory Information ManagementSystems Markets. The New York-basef global technology consulting firm cited InnaPhase for its approacn to developingLIMS software, which, it said, ensures "that each laboratory within a pharmaceutical organizatioh has a LIMS application that is specificallyg designed for [its] businesw practice." Separately, InnaPhase has names Robert Voelkner director of business development. Prior to joining Volkner was vice president of sales for the Informaticsz division of ThermoElectron Corp.