Plant-level Systems: Facing and Dealing with Obstacles

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Another wall keeps information in the shop floor ... Yet, in the "sense and respond" environment of ideally run modern businesses, data generated by events as they ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ERP/2005/11/research_notes/TU_ER_PJ_11_22_05_1.asp - 13k - 2005-11-22 Summary: Production supervisors and plant managers are constantly fighting problems within a plant because they lack visibility in the supply chain and do not have an automated exception-based management system. However, a value-adding processing layer can create transparency and link information to unify company

How Has MAPICS Been Extending?

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... ExtensionWeRX - technology for integrating B2B transactions beyond the four-wall enterprise; ... These tools extract data from the foundation layer to help users ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/BusinessApplications/2000/07/research_notes/EN_BA_PJ_07_19_00_1.asp - 21k - 2000-07-19 Summary: MAPICS, one of the leading mid-market ERP vendors, has significantly expanded its product offering during 2000. On June 15, MAPICS announced the release of XA 6.0, the latest version of its flagship AS/400-based Extended Enterprise Application (EEA). Earlier, on May 9, MAPICS announced the delivery of it

Yet Another Crumby Cookie Story

by D. Geller ... Web surfers." This report suggests that Coremetrics is aggregating the data it collects ... in modern English to mean "the handwriting is on the wall," and under ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/eCommerce/2000/08/news_analysis/NA_EC_DPG_08_08_00_1.asp - 10k - 2000-08-08 Summary: Take a company with a simple and honest business model but without all of its privacy policies clearly stated and a second company which a gift for hyperbole. Mix well, bake at 350 degrees, and take out the faux cookie disaster story of the week. Serve with crow.

ROI Systems Defies The Odds Through Delighted Customers Part Two ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... a named price per user, customers are entitled to the entire wall-to-wall MANAGE 2000 functionality (with the only exception of barcode data acquisition and ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2003/06/news_analysis/NA_ER_PJ_06_03_03_1.asp - 23k - 2003-06-03 Summary: 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.

JD Edwards Fires Siebel, Hires YOU

by Randy Garland ... modules and the core application modules by sharing data in the same data model. ... TEC saw the handwriting on the wall for a breakdown in the JD Edwards - Siebel ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Crm/2001/08/research_notes/EN_CR_RGG_08_28_01_1.asp - 22k - 2001-08-28 Summary: J.D. Edwards announced plans to acquire CRM vendor YOUcentric, Inc. At the same time, they have severed their 18 month relationship with Siebel and ended integration plans between J.D. Edwards core functionalities and Siebel s eFrontOffice capabilities. Abrupt? Yes. Unexpected? Possibly. In the b

Anatomy of a Technology Selection

by J. Dowling ... Transaction data must be accessible with Zero-Latency at all management and measurement ... There is a wall of patent and supplier recognition plaques in one plant ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ExecutiveView/2000/04/research_notes/MI_EV_JFD_04_14_00_1.asp - 18k - 2000-04-14 Summary: Dell Computer Corporation spent millions preparing to deploy an ERP system before realizing that the solution to one set of issues created a more severe problem. Note based on discussion among Michael Dell, Kevin Rollins, and Morten Topfer of Dell Computer Corporation and Dell’s Platinum Counsel of c

Anatomy of a Technology Selection

by J. Dowling ... Transaction data must be accessible with Zero-Latency at all management and measurement ... There is a wall of patent and supplier recognition plaques in one plant ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ExecutiveView/2002/05/research_notes/MI_EV_JFD_05_31_02_1.asp - 18k - 2002-05-31 Summary: Dell Computer Corporation spent millions preparing to deploy an ERP system before realizing that the solution to one set of issues created a more severe problem. Note based on discussion among Michael Dell, Kevin Rollins, and Morten Topfer of Dell Computer Corporation and Dell s Platinum Counsel of c

When EDI Goes Native, Everything Falls in Sync with IQMS

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... label generation and printing, internal/external document linking, data export capability ... is typically completed and handed "over the wall" to manufacturing ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2005/04/research_notes/PN_ER_PJ_04_08_05_1.asp - 21k - 2005-04-08 Summary: IQMS's IQ EDI module is a natively-built solution that deals with the complexities of data synchronization among EDI documents and eliminates the need for third-party translators.

SAP Weaves Microsoft .NET And IBM WebSphere Into Its ESA Tapestry

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... solutions that would extend across systems and beyond business four-wall boundaries ... information and process integration at the user, application, and data levels ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2003/03/news_analysis/NA_ER_PJ_03_05_03_1.asp - 19k - 2003-03-05 Summary: While SAP s determination to become service-oriented architecture applications Lingua Franca evangelist should be of vital importance to its customers and for the general market direction, one should in the short-term expect tremors rather than tectonic moves and a speedy extinction of many pre-histori

Xchange Adds To The List Of CRM Point Solutions' Casualties

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... which is in contrast to leveraging historical information using traditional data mining tools or ... too wise after the event, but the writing on the wall had long ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Crm/2003/03/news_analysis/NA_CR_PJ_03_17_03_1.asp - 26k - 2003-03-17 Summary: Xchange’s protracted troubles and its recent inglorious demise may prove the fact that the CRM point providers without a clear differentiating value proposition and without enough resources have not much to look for out there in the long run other than to find an honorable exit strategy.