Influence Software Inc has finally announced the shipping of its Influence Knowledge Warehouse for SAP, which it claims to be the first packaged data warehouse application designed for SAP R/3 (CI No 3,415). The product, which is targeted at the manufacturing sector, is available immediately for Windows NT and most Unix environments. Pricing is based on the number of concurrent users and the number of applications deployed and starts at $89,000. Influence promises announcements of new customer wins soon and says it will wait until after it has a few large-scale deployments of the IKW under its belt before it turns it attentions to PeopleSoft and Baan platforms.