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In PLM, there is no single vendor that can meet all of the requirements, and the market is still immature, so almost every
product can be the right solution provided a certain set of requirements. In this part of the article we review 3 vendors
who offer products to the PLM market - IDe, Thetis, and PDM (...)
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In PLM, there is no single vendor that can meet all of the requirements, and the market is still immature, so almost every
product can be the righ...
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2003-05-26
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Although the recent spate of acquisitions in the business intelligence market, especially marked with Business Object’s acquisition
of Crystal, Hyperion’s acquisition of Brio, and Actuate’s acquisition of Nimble, may bear resemblance to the raging consolidation
in the ERP market, the underlying rea (...)
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Although the recent spate of acquisitions in the business intelligence market, especially marked with Business Object’s acquisition
of Crystal, Hy...
Published:
2003-08-17
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With a set of seemingly complementary products and via a strategy of focusing on customers, astute acquisitions of more complementary
software companies and a careful deployment of all resources around the world including product development, sales and customer
support, SoftBrands hopes to rise from the (...)
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With a set of seemingly complementary products and via a strategy of focusing on customers, astute acquisitions of more complementary
software com...
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2002-09-30
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Within its marketing and proposal automation product, Deltek espouses an emerging CRM derivative known as client relationship
management, which should help firms track client relationships in a more sophisticated manner than through methods such as
referral or word-of-mouth, which were appropriate during (...)
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Within its marketing and proposal automation product, Deltek espouses an emerging CRM derivative known as client relationship
management, which sh...
Published:
2004-01-12
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Product architecture is going to do much more than simply provide the technical functionality, the user interface, and the
platform support. It is going to determine whether a product is going to be able to accommodate increasingly evolving user
requirements. (...)
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Product architecture is going to do much more than simply provide the technical functionality, the user interface, and the
platform support. It is...
Published:
2006-09-18
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This partnership provides SAP with the opportunity to further extend its reach within its large corporate customer base by
serving the needs of its distant smaller plants and divisions dispersed around the globe. Thus, SAP should hereby have the
wherewithal to defend its major accounts from encroachment (...)
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This partnership provides SAP with the opportunity to further extend its reach within its large corporate customer base by
serving the needs of it...
Published:
2004-05-11
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By extending its traditional focus on project-based businesses into the closely related areas of PSA and CRM (i.e., the so-called
"Project-PLUS" marketing spin), Deltek remains well-entrenched in the territory that many companies aspire to control, but
have yet to penetrate. (...)
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By extending its traditional focus on project-based businesses into the closely related areas of PSA and CRM (ie, the so-called
"Project-PLUS" m...
Published:
2004-01-07
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While customers may be bemused if not concerned about the Oracle/PeopleSoft merger, they are from a traditionally risk-adverse
market. Despite the lush deals offered by the competition, realistically, the only way Oracle will lose customers is through
self-inflicted wounds. (...)
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While customers may be bemused if not concerned about the Oracle/PeopleSoft merger, they are from a traditionally risk-adverse
market. Despite the...
Published:
2005-05-25
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... receive ongoing service-oriented architecture (SOA) integrations. ...
enquiry-driven business intelligence (BI) to line ... probably business or engineering,
and about ...
Published:
2009-05-04
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... software developer that focuses on project-based architecture, engineering,
and construction ... and energy costs; tailored reporting for comparing and contrasting
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Published:
2011-08-16
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Product lifecycle management (PLM) doesn't work, but it should. Industry's general approach and attitude to PLM mimics the
early days of customer relationship management (CRM) adoption, and lessons from that experience should help when tackling
the "ifs" and "hows" of PLM investment. (...)
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Product lifecycle management (PLM) doesn't work, but it should. Industry's general approach and attitude to PLM mimics
the early days of customer ...
Published:
2005-11-25
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If Encompix has for any reason deliberately maintained its ETO-oriented (engineer-to-order) enterprise resource planning
system as one of the best-kept secrets in the complex manufacturing mid-market, it has certainly succeeded so far. However,
given a certain number of viable solutions from more renowne (...)
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If Encompix has for any reason deliberately maintained its ETO-oriented (engineer-to-order) enterprise resource planning system
as one of the best...
Published:
2004-05-24
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During the last few years, Made2Manage has evolved from a vendor of traditional MRP/ERP software to a provider of ‘one-stop-shop’
enterprise business applications. (...)
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During the last few years, Made2Manage has evolved from a vendor of traditional MRP/ERP software to a provider of ‘one-stop-shop’
enterprise busin...
Published:
2003-01-21
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... records, archives, business intelligence (BI), audits, CAPA ... for
both digital manufacturing (engineering the process ... s collaborative platform architecture
for ...
Published:
2011-09-14
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As enterprise applications systems developed over time, a continuous stream of new terminology surfaced. This is a glossary
of those terms. (...)
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As enterprise applications systems developed over time, a continuous stream of new terminology surfaced. This is a glossary
of those terms.
Published:
2004-12-24
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E-business has prompted a lot of vendors to move towards creating electronic product lifecycle management (e-PLM) suites.
However, enterprise resource planning vendors with extensive e-commerce initiatives, development staffs, and renewed interest
in PLM, are as likely to lead the way. (...)
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E-business has prompted a lot of vendors to move towards creating electronic product lifecycle management (e-PLM) suites.
However, enterprise reso...
Published:
2005-10-21
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Spurred by government mandates for more business transparency, business intelligence has emerged to extract information from
ERP systems. How has BI emerged? What does the terminology surrounding it mean, and what is its current state of affairs? (...)
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Business Intelligence Status Report.
Published:
2005-06-27
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ROI's approach has always been to offer proven but not necessarily leading-edge product technology, which has allowed the
vendor to provide its customers with easy migration paths to updated technology. (...)
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ROI's approach has always been to offer proven but not necessarily leading-edge product technology, which has allowed
the vendor to provide its cu...
Published:
2003-06-03
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SAP’s viability and its business applications market’s leadership remains unscathed, as the company remains rock-solid and
will be the leader for a long time to come. While SAP has espoused one of the most compelling and promising collaborative-Commerce
vision to-date, the ideal enablers of collabor (...)
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SAP’s viability and its business applications market’s leadership remains unscathed, as the company remains rock-solid and
will be the leader for ...
Published:
2002-06-07
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The former die-hard IBM AS/400-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) supplier to mid-market manufacturing companies, MAPICS,
seems to have found its soul after the recent acquisition of its former competitor Frontstep and Frontstep's extended-ERP
product line on a Microsoft .NET-based technology platf (...)
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... product information visibility and processes beyond the Engineering Department and ...
now boasts a notable application built on a Microsoft .NET architecture. ...
Published:
2004-07-20