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Production and Distribution - 2003

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Examples Of How Some Mid-Market Vendors Might Remain Within The Future Three (Dozen)?
P.J. Jakovljevic 7/16/2003 12:00:00 AM
While the ongoing consolidation frenzy is by no means the end of smaller vendors, the number of survivors will certainly be only a few dozen. Amid these ongoing seismic consolidation tremors, smaller application vendors are left with few choices: going private under a wealthy financial backer’s wing that is also committed to invest in the acquired technology, or snatching some prominent mid-market players within its market segment.

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Time Keepers Or Clock Makers
Rene Jones 7/9/2003 12:00:00 AM
Right now, you probably have someone hiring and firing warehouse personnel who has never attended a course on interviewing techniques or labor laws. You have someone controlling millions of dollars of inventory that could not tell you the last time they attended a course or read a book about inventory control. And we wonder why our inventory is so inaccurate.

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Computerized Maintenance Management Systems: A Tutorial Part Two: Benefits and Interfaces
Joseph J. Strub 7/8/2003 12:00:00 AM
A CMMS is an excellent business opportunity whose implementation can significantly improve operations, reduce equipment downtime, increase accountability of the maintenance functions, and produce substantial financial savings. Read on to learn how this can be accomplished.

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Computerized Maintenance Management Systems: A Tutorial Part One: Challenges and Features
Joseph J. Strub 7/7/2003 12:00:00 AM
Companies are looking for more areas to squeeze savings out of operations. One such area that may be fertile ground to explore is equipment maintenance. The class of software that can help to cultivate these savings is computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS). This article discusses the basics of CMMS and its key features, enabling you to determine whether your company should investigate this software as a potential source of savings.

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Why Systems Fail - The Dead-end of Dirty Data
Olin Thompson 7/4/2003 12:00:00 AM
If your data does not reflect reality, the system can never be effective. In today’s world of collaboration, showing a trading partner dirty data is giving them the wrong message and tearing down the trust called for in a collaborating partnership.

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Desktop Management's Dirty Little Secret
Chet Sargeant 7/1/2003 12:00:00 AM
ESD (electronic software distribution) promises to simplify software distribution and management, and eliminate ''sneakernet'' the costly, time-consuming manual process that some companies still use to do upgrades and installations. Unfortunately, the cure often has some of the same pitfalls as the problem, not to mention a few snags of its own.

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Software Selection: An Approach
Joseph J. Strub 6/25/2003 12:00:00 AM
Selecting package software can have long-term benefits or long-term regrets. To avoid the latter, your approach needs to be sound, logical, and prudent. It also has to be completed in your lifetime. Read about an approach to software selection that helps an organization get to the primary objective of identifying the best software solution quicker but with the necessary due diligence.

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What's Wrong With Enterprise Applications, And What Are Vendors Doing About It? Part Three: A New Approach and User Recommendations
Olin Thompson,P.J. Jakovljevic 6/24/2003 12:00:00 AM
Despite the user preference for a single, 'one-stop shop' vendor, componentized software products, interoperability standards and Internet technology will lead to fewer large-scale projects and an ongoing stream of smaller ones, all with tangible return on investment (ROI) rationale. Although not necessarily a panacea, what makes Model Based Architecture different is that it is practical approach, which is changing some of the basic rules and paradigms of software development.

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What's Wrong With Enterprise Applications, And What Are Vendors Doing About It? Part Two: A New Framework Strategy
Olin Thompson,P.J. Jakovljevic 6/23/2003 12:00:00 AM
Building replacement products on a new framework is a higher risk strategy. The product functionality still quite matters and, while it is important for enterprise applications providers to implement the latest computer science 'quantum leap', there is no guaranteed correlation between first-to-market and the ultimate success in the market (in fact, based on many experiences, one could even argue that the correlation might be inverse).

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What's Wrong With Enterprise Applications, And What Are Vendors Doing About It?
Olin Thompson,P.J. Jakovljevic 6/21/2003 12:00:00 AM
With increased competition, deregulation, globalization, and mergers & acquisition activity, enterprise software buyers realize that product architecture plays a key role in how quickly vendors can implement, maintain, expand/customize, and integrate their products. Many in the enterprise applications vendors' community recognize that these are unmet realities and are attempting to offer solutions that will deal with them. While it is not practical to look at every strategy and every vendor's nuance, this note looks at some important examples representing distinct strategic approaches.

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