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TEC's P.J. Jakovljevic runs down the history of Servigistics, a service lifecycle management (SLM) platform provider, and
interviews its chief visionary. Founded in 1999, Servigistics, initially a service parts planning and optimization (SPP/O)
specialist, has become a full-fledged service lifecycle manag (...)
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TEC's PJ Jakovljevic runs down the history of Servigistics, a service lifecycle management (SLM) platform provider, and
interviews its chief visi...
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2011-04-08
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This part of the series on Product Life Cycle Management in Process explores the business motivations by review business
strategies. (...)
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... In Part One of this series, we discussed Product Life Cycle Management as a ...
from the marketing department or a customer, to the general availability of the ...
Published:
2002-12-08
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It is hard to recall the last time an ERP implementation team included an auditor as an active member. This article explores
key points in a project's lifecycle where the audit function should be involved and the deliverables to be expected. (...)
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... Can Auditing and Project Management Co-Exist in an ERP Environment? Featured Author
- Joseph Strub - September 2, 2003. ... Could it be because of availability? ...
Published:
2003-09-02
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The quintessential business challenge is to minimize downtime on assets while minimizing the cost of spare and replacement
parts inventory. To meet these challenges, heavy investments have been made in extensive spare ad replacement parts networks. (...)
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The quintessential business challenge is to minimize downtime on assets while minimizing the cost of spare and replacement
parts inventory. To mee...
Published:
2005-07-30
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A quality product offering doesn't guarantee success for any up-and-coming vendor, especially in a market requiring more
awareness and depending on organizational change. While Zilliant appears to be the early market leader, its long-term success
depends on several factors. (...)
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A quality product offering doesn't guarantee success for any up-and-coming vendor, especially in a market requiring more
awareness and depending o...
Published:
2007-06-13
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Improved service management boosts revenue from both service offerings and new product sales, while improved customer service
and enhanced offerings increase customer retention, and draw new service business, providing an additional, low risk and likely
repeated revenue stream over a long period of owner (...)
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Improved service management boosts revenue from both service offerings and new product sales, while improved customer service
and enhanced offerin...
Published:
2005-08-02
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IT infrastructure consisting of networks, servers, databases, and even parts of application systems forms a networked computing
system (NCS) whose performance must be actively managed to ensure continual business support. But the skills and tools necessary
to ensure that network and server systems provid (...)
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... Availability measures to record uptime; Activity measures to record resource consumption;
Performance measures to record quality of service; Event management ...
Published:
2001-01-24
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With Infor Human Capital Management (HCM) 3.0, Infor has combined transactional and strategic human resources functionality
with planned integration to its flagship enterprise resource planning and extensions solutions, so that customers can better
align HCM initiatives with overall business strategy. (...)
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With Infor Human Capital Management (HCM) 3.0, Infor has combined transactional and strategic human resources functionality
with planned integrati...
Published:
2006-10-12
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Major vendors are noting the growing demand for software as a service. However, smaller providers are forging new ground
by offering services for inventory and collaborative planning. (...)
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Major vendors are noting the growing demand for software as a service. However, smaller providers are forging new ground by
offering services for ...
Published:
2006-03-16
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Corporations are at risk because Web applications and servers make them susceptible to hackers and cyber crooks. However,
companies can perform security risk assessments that mitigate risk by applying security risk management policies designed
to protect a company’s data. (...)
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Corporations are at risk because Web applications and servers make them susceptible to hackers and cyber crooks. However,
companies can perform se...
Published:
2008-06-06
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Read about end user interest in learning management (using data from TEC’s Evaluation Centers) and know the three learning
management trends for 2011. Learning management is a growing market in certain geographical areas and within specific industries.
The availability of mobile and collaborative learni (...)
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Read about end user interest in learning management (using data from TEC’s Evaluation Centers) and know the three learning
management trends for 20...
Published:
2011-01-24
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Globalization, technology stabilization, inventory visibility, and traceability are forcing organizations to reevaluate supplier
relationship management systems. The benefits of a customer relationship management system that can be applied to a supply
chain can streamline operations and increase bottom l (...)
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Globalization, technology stabilization, inventory visibility, and traceability are forcing organizations to reevaluate supplier
relationship mana...
Published:
2007-07-13
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Because small to medium enterprises are limited in their resources, they must carefully consider which of the two major operating
systems available—Microsoft Windows or Linux—will better serve their needs and be more cost-efficient to implement. (...)
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Because small to medium enterprises are limited in their resources, they must carefully consider which of the two major operating
systems availabl...
Published:
2006-12-19
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The big buzzword in enterprise-wide package software is service-oriented architecture (SOA). SOA promises to solve a company's
software ills, making life easier for information technology departments. This research note takes a look at this new architecture
and highlights some concerns. (...)
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The big buzzword in enterprise-wide package software is service-oriented architecture (SOA). SOA promises to solve a company's
software ills, maki...
Published:
2007-01-05
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... balance between satisfying customer demand, maintaining product availability, minimizing
delivery ... been enabled by many supply chain management (SCM) solution ...
Published:
2010-04-01
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The Internet opened the door for global trade. As the global trade management (GTM) space continues consolidating, market
leadership belongs to companies that understand, to truly improve global trade, one must be able to manage both the physical
and financial supply chains. (...)
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... functional silos further aggravate a seamless approach to global logistics management.
... of the cost advantages afforded by the global availability of goods and ...
Published:
2005-06-14
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An automated data center promises to self-configure, self-optimize, and self-protect. When looking to implement an automated
data center, one must consider best practices in user and resource provisioning, infrastructure availability, and user management.
Doing so will allow automated data centers to exp (...)
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... and readily available access to key business resources by managing availability, loss
prevention, and recovery. Security Management—establish identities and ...
Published:
2004-10-30
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Different types of organizations show distinct preferences when assigning importance to the criteria on which to base their
operating system selection. Small and medium enterprises need to carefully analyze the available data to accurately evaluate
their strategic IT investments. (...)
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Different types of organizations show distinct preferences when assigning importance to the criteria on which to base their
operating system selec...
Published:
2006-12-20
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For Provia, the ability to increase the awareness of the company's supply chain execution (SCE) solution for a global audience
through the company's long-standing partnership with Menlo was the natural next step in the relationship. (...)
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For Provia, the ability to increase the awareness of the company's supply chain execution (SCE) solution for a global
audience through the company...
Published:
2004-08-14
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... forecasting and scheduling, reporting and analytics, and talent management parts of
... considering the staffing needs, employee skill level/availability, and work ...
Published:
2010-07-23