Cúram Software announced its market-leading Cúram Business Application Suite 5.0 has achieved “Powered by SAP NetWeaver” certification status. Endorsed by SAP in 2007, the Cúram Business Application Suite, which is Cúram Software’s Social Enterprise Management (SEM) solution, provides client-centric business processes and outcomes-driven, integrated service delivery on the newly released SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment (SAP NetWeaver CE) offering Release 7.1. Cúram Software is pleased its Cúram Business Application Suite has achieved Powered by SAP NetWeaver status, which leverages the open-standard Java platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE 5), for enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA)-based composition and deployment. SAP NetWeaver 7.1 CE provides a complete standards-based platform and runtime environment for developing, deploying and efficiently managing composite applications using enterprise SOA.

The SAP Integration and Certification Center (ICC) has certified that the Cúram Business Application Suite can be successfully deployed on the Java EE 5-based SAP NetWeaver CE 7.1 Application Server for Java. It leverages the Eclipse-based SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio tool for extending the Cúram application and the SAP NetWeaver Administrator tool for monitoring the deployed system.

The Cúram Business Application Suite provides social enterprises, including health and human services, workforce services and social security organizations, with a revolutionary way to improve client outcomes and service delivery, streamline business processes, and increase levels of adaptability and flexibility. This certification expands the development and deployment options for customers implementing the Cúram Business Application Suite and helps to lower the total cost of ownership by allowing customers to simplify their IT infrastructure through standardization on SAP NetWeaver – SAP’s proven platform – leveraging existing skill sets and resources to maintain and deploy solutions from both SAP AG and Cúram.

“Social enterprises are faced with increased demand for more effective citizen-centric service delivery and more efficient business operations. We are delighted to announce the successful achievement of Powered by SAP NetWeaver status for the Cúram Business Application Suite,” said Ronan Rooney, chief technology officer, Cúram Software.

The SAP NetWeaver platform powers the SAP Business Suite and solutions such as the Cúram Business Application Suite. SAP NetWeaver unifies application composition, integration and service provisioning technologies into a single platform and is pre-integrated with business applications, enabling change and reducing the need for custom integration.

“Cúram Software's attainment of the Powered by SAP NetWeaver status of the Cúram Business Application Suite using SAP NetWeaver CE 7.1 represents a key milestone in SAP's business process platform strategy for the Public Sector,” said Rod Massey, vice president, SAP Public Sector Industry Business Unit, SAP Labs. “SAP NetWeaver provides the essential foundation for integration between solutions from Cúram Software and SAP and, more importantly, co-innovation on a common platform, thereby reducing total cost of ownership for customers and maximizing public value.”