BlackBerry®
Manufacturer RIM Ensures Superior Responsiveness in a Super-Charged
Environment
Research In Motion (RIM) maker of the BlackBerry®, is experiencing
massive growth in volume output, staffing, and manufacturing
infrastructure. The combined pressures of a rapidly expanding customer
base and shortened product lifecycles have led the company to add more
contract manufacturers to the supply chain, which means that more
complex decisions need to be made in less time. Existing software was
not up to the challenge, so the implementation of a new decision
support
tool was essential to keep RIM positioned as a market leader.
Download
this white paper to learn how the implementation of
RapidResponse has enabled RIM to make complex
decisions in minutes and hours instead of days and weeks.
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Product 2.0: Kepware's KEPServerEX
Kepware Technologies, a member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork, recently
announced the availabiliy of its KEPServerEX product, which has over
130
protocols supporting connectivity to 1000s of devices. The solution
delivers plant floor information directly to Oracle's manufacturing
applications including Oracle Manufacturing Operations Center, and
Oracle Discrete Manufacturing components of the Oracle E-Business
Suite.
New enhancements include: two new Plug-ins for Oracle Discrete
Manufacturing and Oracle Manufacturing Operations Center connectivity,
Advanced Tags -- delivering math and logic functionality, and an OPC DA
Client Driver -- enabling KEPServerEX to be a gateway between third
party OPC Servers and the Oracle Applications.
www.kepware.com/Products/kepserverex_features.html
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IT FEATURE
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IT STRATEGIES
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Ten
Principles to Optimize the Business Value of IT
Adopting a portfolio management strategy can help your company
better align its IT goals.
So your latest IT project was delivered late, or it
failed for no discernible reason. Or it could be that the project was
derailed due to constantly changing business priorities. The challenge
for many, if not all, organizations is to optimize their investments in
IT. One way is to focus on portfolio management, a strategy that aims
to
establish a more mature relationship between business and IT, one
focused on innovation rather than transaction.
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to continue
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IT FYI
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Simulation
Lifecycle Management: Maximizing the Business Advantages
Simulation can replace or augment costly, time-consuming physical
prototyping and testing.
The use of engineering and scientific simulation
techniques to understand and predict the real-world behavior of
physical
phenomena is widespread across a number of diverse industries. This is
true for simulations involving product performance attributes,
manufacturing processes, or fundamental research. The benefits that
result from the use of simulation are around us every day, from the
vehicles we travel in, to products we use daily in work or play, to
medical devices that provide treatments seemingly impossible only a few
years ago. These techniques, when used effectively, provide a distinct
business advantage to product manufacturers if they replace or augment
costly, time-consuming physical prototyping and testing.
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INDUSTRYWEEK WEBCAST
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Better
Collaboration With Partners: How Levi Strauss Did It
Many organizations have invested heavily in large
scale ERP implementations, but they still struggle with how to
integrate
legacy applications and collaborate with business partners. Hear the
story of how Levi Strauss achieved global inventory visibility -- which
resulted in inventory stability, retail channel expansion, and
consistently delivering on customer commitments. Attend this free
IndustryWeek webcast on Sept. 25. Sign
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