SAP AG has turned to Intellicorp Inc, Mountain View, California, for an object-oriented interface for the Abab development environment which comes with SAP’s R/3 accounting and financial applications suite for Unix, Computerwoche reports. The order is valued at around $1m. The project includes development of a more intelligent editor for R/3. The interface for objects and events will be based on Intellicorp’s Kappa development environment, which includes a programming language, a software engineering tool set, a graphical user interface builder and interfaces to relational and object-oriented databases. As well as Kappa, Intellicorp markets the KEE Knowledge Engineering Environment expert system. Intellicorp says it gets 70% of its turnover from products, the balance coming from support.
