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Implementing SAP, 2004.
Considers when a company would implement SAP.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper considers when a company would implement SAP, including a success story. It examines the ability of SAP to provide a single access point for key information within an organization and its product offerings. It looks at SAP as a comprehensive but complex product and examines the implementation of SAP.
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"For many years companies have sought specialized computer programs to operate different aspects of an organization. Manufacturing had its own system accounting, its own human resources, its own and so forth. There has been a move in recent years to integrate the information that is generated in each of these functional areas such as using sales forecasts to determine staffing levels based on manufacturing requirements but only a few organizations have been able to bring such systems to fruition. More often companies struggle to have different ..."
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SAP, 2002.
Discusses and describes two successful implementations of SAP (ERP vendor) and one failed attempt in the program.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 7 sources, $ 53.95
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A brief introduction to the program SAP, which then offers two detailed success stories of companies who implemented SAp (ERP vendor) and one failure of SAP. It thus, provides a balance view of SAP as an ERP vendor.
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Supplier Relationships and SAP, 2006.
Examines the building of streamlined supplier relationships within an organization using SAP software.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 15 sources, APA, $ 57.95
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Supplier relationship management solutions enable companies to work closely with suppliers in an efficient manner. In today's technologically advanced business marketplace, it is more important than ever for organizations to streamline business processes and save money and time producing high quality products and services. SRM software systems, including that of SAP, enable organizations to achieve this goal. In simple terms, SRM allows companies to collaborate more closely with suppliers in order to manufacture and produce viable products that are cost effective in a quick fashion. There is some question however as to what is involved when using SRM systems. This report details the implications SRM has for a specific company and others looking for a competitive advantage, using a SRM software system. Specifically, the report focuses on SAP as a tool for SRM and utilizes the experiences of other organizations to demonstrate why SAP may offer superior capabilities with regard to Supplier Relationship Management.
Paper Outline:
Executive Summary
Introduction
Supplier Relationship Management Defined
Benefits of SRM
Details SAP's SRM Solution
Samples Companies Implemented SAP
Conclusion And Recommendation
References
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"The two largest problems associated with implementation identified by companies using SRM include inadequate training, inadequate expertise regarding the system and lack of appropriate SRM objectives or organizational goals (Kane, 2003; Miller, 2003; Johnston, 2003). SAP's R/3 system enables streamlined process management for human resources, accounting and logistics. A company can manage materials, financial accounting, controlling, material management, sales, production planning and project systems using a single software application."
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SAP Software, 2005.
Evaluates software from SAP, a company that develops strategies and methodologies for companies to improve their products and services for their customers.
1,375 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This research paper identifies and evaluates the value proposition for SAP software. The paper identify SAP's strategies for optimizing communications and delivering customer value and makes a considerable attempt to discover the status of SAP on customer service, marketing, and organizational responsiveness and how these elements create and/or deliver superior customer value. The paper primarily bases its discussion on macro-environmental and micro-environmental factors, which affect the organizational environment and the business of the company. Initially, the paper provides a brief background of the company and its formation so that the reader can gain effective information regarding the inception and development of SAP software. The paper also presents a conclusion based on the relative findings and information, which are discussed throughout in the paper.
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"The company was formed in the year 1972, from there on the organizational authorities are working hard to make this company on top of the world. The authorities have worked very hard to develop strategies and methodologies, which could help them in providing the customers with the products, which they really need. SAP is the world?s largest inter-enterprise software company. The company has gained this status in a period of many years; the organizational authorities and the employees have worked hard and cooperated with each other to flourish the business of the company. The analysis and researches show that the company has gained such heights of success y delivering superior quality services to their customers. The organizational authorities are aware of the fact that the customers are the ultimate people on whom the entire business depends upon therefore; special consideration sand attention is paid to the demands and wishes of the consumers."
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SAP Global, 2007.
This paper evaluates the Internet marketing strategy of SAP Global, a software company.
4,640 words (approx. 18.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 120.95
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This paper reports that SAP's approach to customer acquisition, centers on mining their existing customer base for follow-on sales of their products. The author states that this process relies heavily on SAP's world-class database of reference-able customers. The author points out that SAP is one of the few software companies that actively tie back their performance service to their customer service strategies by using their own CRM applications. The paper concludes that, when an organization has a clear vision of its marketing and specifically Internet-based strategy objectives, the selective application of technologies to these objectives can deliver exceptionally strong results. This paper includes many figures and tables.
Table of Contents:
Target Customer Segments
Customer Acquisition Strategies
Customer retention strategies
Global Survey Advisory Counsel
Retention Communications Campaign
Heavy Emphasis on Customer Participation
Customer Service Strategies
Integration into Overall Marketing Strategy
Technical Infrastructure Required
Data Acquisition, Management and Use
Evaluation of Goals
Social and Regulatory Issues
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats
Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats
Continued and Aggressive Market Consolidation
Conclusion and Analyses
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"Based on SAP's segmentation initiative, the company launched a new program called "Smart Business Solutions," which addresses the distinct segments of SMB customers based on their degree of technological sophistication. SAP identified a need for product individualization and industry-specific functionality among the sophisticated customer segment, developing a product offering based on the company's flagship mySAP.com suite. The mySAP.com SMB product assists small- and medium-sized manufacturers that seek to extend and maximize their supply chains."
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E-Business Implementation Plan - Nokia, 2005.
This paper uses Nokia as an example of how a successful e-business strategy is implemented.
6,000 words (approx. 24.0 pages), 14 sources, MLA, $ 142.95
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The intention of this paper is to identify and analyze the e-strategies and e-processes of Nokia, the world's leading wireless communications company. The history of the company and its progression is noted, as well as the development of Nokia through its online presence. The services offered to Nokia's customers and business partners are identified and evaluated for their significance and the value-add provided to them. The significance and importance of Nokia's website, www.nokia.com, is also identified and proven through strategic reasoning. It explores and discusses the internal and external e-processes including the newly developed Preminet solutions. Operation solutions such as SAP and customer relation management (CRM) are suggested and e-marketing strategies also discussed.
Outline
Executive Summary
Introduction
Internal & External e-Processes Adding Value
Market Segmentation
e-Marketing Models
Business Knowledge of Nokia
Syntheses of Major Economic Opportunities
Economic Opportunity: China and India
Economic Opportunity: Middle East and Africa
Economic Opportunity: Indonesia
Technological Advancement: Sentient Computing
Nokia's Web Presence
Recommendations Based on Potential Market
Website Business Benefits and Value Added Aspects
Conclusion
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"As one of the world's leading telecommunications companies, Nokia had always seen themselves well positioned to exploit new growth possibilities in the new arena emerging from the convergence of telecom, datacom and IT industries. The company's past and current plan is to actively pursue expansion into these markets. They have recognized the importance of growth, which has sustained at over 25 percent in revenue terms per annum. This growth has produced the birth of their special organization Nokia Ventures Organization, which was dedicated to looking for new business opportunities aimed at returning high growth and profitability in the mid to long term perspective. "
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Argentina: SAP and Financial Crash, 2005.
The paper discusses the role that the IMF's structural adjustment policies played in the Argentinian financial crash.
2,746 words (approx. 11.0 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 82.95
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The author argues that the Argentinian financial crash was, primarily, the outcome of poorly designed and carelessly implemented IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Policies. This argument is supported through reference to economic facts and statistics.
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"The 1990s witnessed several large-scale financial collapses in countries that applied the IMF structural adjustment programs. As the IMF structural adjustment programs are built upon solid economic rules and theory and revolve around the principle of economic liberalization and market capitalism as the engine for economic growth because hey encourage local investment and establish motivations for foreign investments, this is very ironic. It is more even more ironic when the rationale behind these structural adjustment programs was stability and growth not instability and crash. Consequently, this irony has aroused the concern of many economists, all the more so because a financial collapse in one country influences the economies of others and will continue to do so on a larger and wider scale as globalization expands. Among the economists who have demonstrated this concern and who have sought to contribute to our understanding of financial crashes is William Easterly, the author of "IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs and Poverty." As the title of the article illustrates, Easterly is concerned with the role that IMF and World Bank structural adjustment programs play in domestic economies and their effect on the conditions of the people living in those economies."
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Structural Adjustment Programs, 2005.
A look at the causes and effect of structural adjustment programs on workers in Africa.
12,062 words (approx. 48.2 pages), 20 sources, MLA, $ 233.95
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In recent years, it has become obvious that the countries of Africa are not getting any better financially in spite of structural adjustment programs (SAP) and IMF programs. In fact, unemployment, poverty, and illiteracy continue to rise. Immortality is on the rise, with many children not living to see their fifth birthday. This paper looks at why Africa's people live in poverty in spite of its large number of natural resources and attempts to provide insight into ways that can assist it into becoming more self-sufficient.
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Introduction
Commencement of Problem
Summary of Projected Solution
Effects of the SAPs
Overview of Structural Adjustment Programs
Description of SAPs and IMF Programs
Objectives of SAPs
Effects of SAPs on the Economy
Key Issues of the Program
Program Focus
Potential for Success
Effects on Domestic Economy
Disadvantages
Structural Adjustment Effects in Africa
Overview
Conditionality
Effects on African Economy
Credibility of SAPs
Privatization
Potential for Success
Key Issues
Performance Management
Description
Working Under SAPs
Impact on Trade Unions
Effects of SAPs
Possible Solutions
Labor Laws
Impact on Trade Unions
Role of Trade/Labor Unions
Conclusion
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"The continent of Africa has been plagued by debt since it gained its independence from Europe, and the majority of those debts are owed to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Even though these organizations have only been officially in existence since their conception in 1944, the conditions of the IMF and World Bank existed long before that time. As of 2004, Africa's debts to the IMF and World Bank stood at over $300 billion, and it is unlikely that that number is representative of revenues lost to Europe and America since those monies have increased poverty rather than being beneficial to Africa. Every year a total of $15 billion is transferred from the poorest countries in Africa and other places in the world to the richest countries through interest payments."
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The Computer Industry, 2005.
This paper discusses the global strategic alliance between two companies in the computer industry: Hewlett Packard (U.S.) and SAP (Germany).
2,500 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 13 sources, MLA, $ 75.95
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This paper explains that, in 1989, HP and SAP entered into a strategic partnership to offer integrated solutions for the computer industry assuming that the business solutions they provide together would be much better and more profitable than any of the products in the industry. The author points out that, while the alliance has proved to be profitable, working with different cultures and collaborating in an industry, where knowledge and intelligence of the employee determine the viability of the company, can be challenging. The paper stresses that the common objects and goals set for the partnership should benefit both companies equally; Microsoft and Intel have been able to generate tremendous profits for each other due to their collaborative efforts in the development of new processors and the software codes for these processors.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Pros and Cons of the Partnership
SWOT Analysis of SAP and HP
Hewlett Packard
SAP
Future Plans for HP and SAP Partnership
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"As of 2005, both companies remain successful in offering business solutions for big and mid-sized corporations. HP offers the hardware (servers) that is able to run UNIX, Linux, or Windows operating systems; SAP offers "ERP applications pre-configured for companies in oil & gas distribution, and consumer foods and high-tech device manufacturing. SAP will provide software, implementation services, maintenance, end-user training, support, functional management, and application management. HP will provide the data center and services that include operations, infrastructure hosting, storage on demand, business recovery, managed Web solutions, and security services." In addition, the company also collaborates on offering the necessary service to support the business solutions that are offered."
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The Packaged Enterprise Application Systems Martketplace, 2003.
An analysis of the current enprise application systems marketplace. The paper concentrates on the four major enterprise systems companies - SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft and JDE - and the impace the recent events of mergers will have on the industry.
1,590 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 21 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper analyzes the current PEAS (packaged enterprise application systems) marketplace. It focuses on the four biggest enterprise applications companies; SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft and JDEdwards. The paper begins with an analysis of each company, discussing their product offerings as well as individual strengths and weakness. It also discusses how the mergers between PeopleSoft and JDE and the potential merger between Oracle, PeopleSoft and JDE will impact the PEAS marketplace, and more specifically, which merger has the better potential to compete with SAP.
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"During the past few months, three of the major players in the PEAS marketplace have been involved in some intriguing merger and acquisition battles. On June 2nd, PeopleSoft announced a takeover bid for JDE. Soon after, Oracle, in an effort to stop and/or delay such a merger, announced a hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft. Since then PeopleSoft had announced its completion of the acquisition (PeopleSoft 2003). Oracle, in response, boosted its hostile takeover bid of PeopleSoft?s shares to approximately US$7.3billion. But both PeopleSoft and JDE are vehemently opposed to Oracle?s offer, which they view as anti-competitive and will ?dramatically undervalue the Company? (PeopleSoft 2003). Meanwhile, SAP, the biggest company in the PEAS marketplace, looks on, and launches a marketing campaign to capture both PeopleSoft and JDE customers who may be hesitant about buying software from companies in the midst of mergers and acquisitions (Vetich 2003:16). Although SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft and JDE are all competing against each other in the PEAS marketplace, all four specializes in different areas of the market."
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The IMF and its Effects on the Women, 2002.
This paper discusses how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has imposed structural adjustment programs (SAPs) on developing countries that end up exacerbating the victimization of women.
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These programs are based on the assumption that market forces serve as the best solutions to economic problems. By doing so, the programs lead to the direct subordination of women's interests. The main problem is that the greatest burden of economic crises is faced by women, who are simultaneously the very people that are ignored by the SAPs.
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Global Business and Technology, 2001.
A look at the role SAP USA (Inc.) has played in the globalization trend.
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This paper shows how, with the advancement of information technology, it became possible for companies to remain informed about the recent developments in the market and to remain in close contact with their worldwide operations. SAP USA had successfully extended its operations worldwide and is now considered to be one of the leading vendors of ERP solutions.
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"The influences of globalization can be observed everywhere: in our home, in the workplace, in the markets, in the newspapers, in the recent market studies and so on. A brief and simple definition of globalization is that it is the increase in liberalization of international trade and investment which is expected to result in the form of an integration of the national economies, all around the world. To further explain the concept of globalization, it can be said that globalization is the increasing propensity for business entities to think, plan, operate, and invest for the future in the global markets and benefit from the opportunities across the world. One of the major benefits of globalization is that it has grown the ease of international communication in which the Information technology, especially the Internet has played a leading role. Realizing this opportunity and the potential of growth I the information technology industry many software vendors started developing strategies for targeting the world markets so that their communication needs and other business needs should be fulfilled. SAP USA is one of the prime examples of the businesses that have experienced expansion in their market and have benefited from the increasing trend of globalization."
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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), 2002.
An examination of two companies which supply Enterprise Resource Planning software solutions.
2,647 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 79.95
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Enterprise Resource Planning software solutions are software solutions that provide a common, consistent system to capture data organization-wide, to integrate information across corporate functions and to provide tools for planning and monitoring the various functions and processes towards a common purpose. This paper examines the strengths, weaknesses and services of two companies that offer ERP software solutions - PeopleSoft and SAP. The paper shows that SAP is appropriate for larger companies with the resources to support the infrastructure and implementation of a mammoth, all-comprising system, while PeopleSoft is a lower-cost, less demand-intensive alternative.
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"PeopleSoft began in the enterprise operations software business by designing software for human-resources executives. They won their customers over with their friendly, customer-focused style. Once the firm was established within their clients? Human Resource departments, it began to offer software for other departments, starting with Finance. This approach worked for them quickly: revenues were only $33 million in 1992, but have risen to about $1.4 billion since then."
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The mySAP.com, 2004.
This paper discusses the business, mySAP.com, which is an open, two-way business setting for personalized solutions on request.
4,130 words (approx. 16.5 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 110.95
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This paper explains that mySAP.com consists of three components: the Marketplace, a website where both buyers and sellers first register themselves and then trade with each another; the Workplace, software, which sets up access to all of the systems that is being used in the company; and mySAP.com, also considered to be the umbrella name for all of SAP's Internet-enabled applications. The paper points out that e-marketplaces and trading exchanges, which are promoted by this business, have increased on the Internet from a varied range of industries. The paper concludes that the Commerce One alliance with SAP Markets strengths the company's delivery of the B2B infrastructure because SAP's global expertise in business applications makes it a powerful and noteworthy company.
Table of Contents
What is mySAP.com?
Overview on mySAP.com
Personalization
Collaboration
Solutions on Demand
The Prototypical Implementation Approach
Solution-oriented Prototypes
Potential Benefits from mySAP.com
Analysis and Overview on the Potential Benefits from mySAP.com
B2B Marketplaces
Marketplace Applications
Business Directory
Business Document Exchange
Business-to-Business Procurement (BBP)
mySAP.com Marketplace Business Communities
Dynamic Pricing
Requests for Quotation and Proposal
Collaborative Planning and Forecasting
Distributor Reseller Management (DRM)
Difficulties for Companies to Select mySAP.com
Conclusion
Key Words
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"Thus, this approach permits to create an operational and completely documented prototype in simply a few days time. It replicates both incoming and outgoing information from business associates, for instance, scanning in an EDI object or an XML document with the organization?s sales information. In the course of the implementation project, you can quickly adapt the contents to meet specific requirements. Also, this can be more easily achieved by using joint business process through linkage company?s systems with partner solutions."
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Government Intervention and Energy Services, 2005.
A view of government intervention in providing energy services and delivery to the public through private enterprise.
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The conversion of energy into power has progressed to this day as large corporations comply with governmental regulations that seek to ensure that enough electricity is provided to meet customer demand at a fair price. Energy service and delivery companies have provided shareholder growth through acquisitions and mergers and by cutting costs and integrating systems. This paper shows that the federal government intervenes to protect customers and investors through several commissions and agencies, primarily through the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) under the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 and the more recent Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The states' Public Service Commissions regulate and monitor utility prices, service quantity and quality and can prosecute firms guilty of price discrimination. The paper shows that local governments are mainly concerned with the taking of property through eminent domain, pollution control and regional resources. Although government continues in the direction of deregulating the industry, the regulatory reporting requirements have created numerous jobs in the areas of accounting, reporting, and compliance. The paper explains that computer systems, applications, and products in data processing (SAP) help to maximize resources and assist greatly in data management and government reporting compliance.
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Abstract
Introduction
Brief History of the Utilities Industry
Service and Delivery Territorial Boundaries
Welcome to Energy East
Energy East's Territory
A recent report on Energy East
Government Intervention in the Energy Services & Delivery Industry
Brief History
Federal Government Intervention
The Federal Energy and Regulatory Commission (FERC)
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Regulations Regarding Stocks, Bonds and Derivatives
State & Local Government Intervention
Key Government Legislation Affecting the Industry
Public Holding Company Act of 1935
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and Government Reporting Requirements
Establishing and Maintaining Effective Reporting Systems
Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing (SAP)
Communicating with SEC Officials
Conclusion
Career Opportunities
References
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"Federal, state and regional governments collaborate in controlling electricity prices and the supply of electricity because a price or demand increase in one regional area affects electricity costs and supply of nearby regional areas. One region's energy crisis can have a spill over effect into other states and may spread across the country. This became apparent in California when there was not enough supply to meet the demand during California's deregulation of public utilities as California turned to neighboring regional areas to purchase additional power. When other states refused to sell electricity to California in their crisis because of risk factors, a government emergency order saved them by requiring out-of-state companies to sell power to that region (Bonsor, 2001). Power outages can spread as they too can have spill over effects onto other regions. This happened in the summer of 2003 when New York City up through Canada experienced a massive black out."
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