Manufacturing Management Software

SAP argues that businesses interested in product-lifecycle management software don't have the time to wait for Oracle to get its integration story together.

The term "product-lifecycle management software" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. But SAP and Oracle, staunch competitors and the two largest vendors of business applications, are in a race to gain more share of this growing market. SAP on Wednesday laid out its roadmap for product lifecycle management (PLM) software, starting with plans to simplify its PLM user interface next year so that more types of people within a company can use it. SAP's three-year plan for internal development improvements to PLM is partly in response to Oracle's recent acquisition of Agile for US$495 million. SAP had a leg up on Agile in PLM market share last year, as it's been able to sell into existing customers in manufacturing, consumer goods, and other industries.

Order Logistics Announces The Completion Of Its Solve (IT)2 ``Integrated Global Supply Chain Technology Solution``

Order Logistics announced the completion of its proprietary end-to-end, web-based global supply chain technology solution.

The technology is an integrated software suite of multiple integrated modules that is a recognized brand powered by the Solve (IT)2 platform, designed to streamline the management of global sourcing issues, such as production scheduling, global vendor enrollment, and qualification compliance with governmental regulations and total supplier quality assurance. It is ideal for businesses in the manufacturing and distribution industries.

"The suite of powerful modules provides a true end-to-end approach to the global supply chain," said Paul McCreary, Executive Vice President of Business Solutions for Order Logistics. "By end-to-end, we mean just that:" Factory qualification.

Plexus Online Shares Software Purchasing Secrets in New White Paper

Plexus Systems, providers of Plexus Online on-demand software for the manufacturing enterprise, today announced the availability of a new white paper entitled "Ten Critical Questions to Ask a Manufacturing ERP Vendor," made available at the Management Briefing Seminars in Traverse City, Mich. A complimentary copy of the report is available for a limited time at http://www.plex.com/download/TenQuestions.asp.

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Emerson Acquires Decision Management International

AUSTIN, TEXAS (August 8, 2007) - Emerson (NYSE: EMR) today announced it has acquired Decision Management International, Inc. (DMI) of Bradenton, FL. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. DMI (www.dmius.com) becomes part of Emerson Process Management, adding leading software and expertise, including electronic management of workflow, materials, equipment, personnel, and documentation, to expand Emerson's real-time manufacturing solutions. The acquisition includes all DMI technologies, applications, services, and employees. Compliance Suite by DMI software is tightly integrated with Emerson's DeltaV(TM) Batch software as part of PlantWeb digital architecture. The comprehensive technology provides high data integrity in paperless manufacturing solutions and an integrated, electronic batch record that improves overall cycle times and reduces manufacturing costs.

Lombardi Continues Momentum with Triple-Digit Growth in First Half of 2007

Business process management suite vendor expands customer base, delivers innovative products in 1h07.

The company added dozens of new BPM clients to its rapidly expanding base, with customer traction across a wide variety of industries, including financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, government, transportation, technology, and insurance. Additionally, numerous existing customers expanded their deployments of Lombardi's software; adding both additional licenses and services transactions during the first half.

Software manages entire returns management lifecycle.

ClearOrbit ERM (Enterprise Returns Management(TM)) v4.1 automates returns processes for medical device, high-tech, and industrial manufacturers. Web-based solution manages lifecycle from return merchandise authorization (RMA) creation to final product disposition and incorporates management tool for real-time process visibility. Software also features Route Module that ensures items go to the proper destination and Smart Receiving(TM) which automates scanning of returned items.

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Enhancing Search and Browse Using Automated Clustering of Subject Metadata

The Web puzzle of online information resources often hinders end-users from effective and efficient access to these resources. Clustering resources into appropriate subject-based groupings may help alleviate these difficulties, but will it work with heterogeneous material? The University of Michigan and the University of California Irvine joined forces to test automatically enhancing metadata records using the Topic Modeling algorithm on the varied OAIster corpus. We created labels for the resulting clusters of metadata records, matched the clusters to an in-house classification system, and developed a prototype that would showcase methods for search and retrieval using the enhanced records. Results indicated that while the algorithm was somewhat time-intensive to run and using a local classification scheme had its drawbacks, precise clustering of records was achieved and the prototype interface proved that faceted classification could be powerful in helping end-users find resources.

IDC: IBM Tivoli ist die Nummer 1 für Identity und Access Mangement

Im neuen Marktreport von Juli 2007 stufen die Analysten von IDC IBM als den weltweiten Marktfhrer im Bereich Identity und Access Management Software ein. Grund dafr ist vor allem die Strke der Kernprodukte in diesem Bereich, dem Tivoli Identity Manager, dem Tivoli Access Manager sowie dem Tivoli Federated Identity Manager. .