Information Sources for Partners

Has Consolidation Made the PLM Market More Agile?

by P.J. Jakovljevic & Jim Brown ... by speeding the exchange of information between Agile systems and external information sources, including information from supply chain partners, from customers ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/plm/2003/10/news_analysis/NA_PL_PJ_10_22_03_1.asp - 17k - 2003-10-22 Summary: While the race for the pole position in the still evolving, moving-target PLM market started several years ago, it has been quite accelerated by Agile Software's fourth acquisition in 2003. Particularly with the most recent Agile-Eigner announcement, the two players have apparently decided to leapfrog ma

Information Builders Did It iWay

by M. Reed ... information from over 120 different sources and operating ... comprehensive access to all information assets in ... 25 technology and services partners, including IBM ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2001/03/news_analysis/NA_DW_MFR_03_06_01_1.asp - 8k - 2001-03-06 Summary: Information Builders plans to spin off its middleware technology group (which develops and supports the EDA middleware product) into a new wholly owned subsidiary named iWay Software. The move is supposed to allow Information Builders (IBI) to concentrate on the WebFocus and Focus business intelligence

Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) Evaluation Center

... and Commercial Products/Machinery Industry Support Information lifecycle management (ILM) Information security Information Sources for Partners Input Device ... http://foss.technologyevaluation.com/ - 31k - 2009-03-09

Plant-level Systems: Facing and Dealing with Obstacles

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... as well as to external trading partners on the ... plant) intelligence systems to bring appropriate information from plant-focused data sources and aggregate ... 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

QAD Pulling through, Patiently but Passionately Part Three: Market ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... areas of an enterprise, such as internal applications, a variety of information sources (both internal and external databases), business partners, and internal ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2003/09/research_notes/EN_ER_PJ_09_20_03_1.asp - 26k - 2003-09-20 Summary: QAD deserves admiration for its protracted innovativeness and endurance as the only assets it could muster as to compensate for limited resources compared to many larger competitors.

Competitive Challenges for Vanguard

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... maintain its position as it partners the BI ... the connection of other data sources to its ... their investment in transactional enterprise information systems should ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/BusinessIntelligence/2005/07/research_notes/VN_BI_PJ_07_21_05_1.asp - 15k - 2005-07-21 Summary: Vanguard's challenge is to continue to be nimble and responsive to the needs of its target market and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners.

SAP Gives in to CRM (Part Time) Matrimony

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... based personalized portals for employees, partners, and customers ... data from an array of sources and applications ... regardless of whether the information resides in ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/BusinessApplications/2000/05/news_analysis/NA_BA_PJ_05_31_00_1.asp - 13k - 2000-05-31 Summary: On May 2, SAP AG, the leading provider of enterprise software applications, announced a strategic alliance with Nortel Networks to develop and integrate industry-specific CRM solutions.

Plumtree Fuels Growth With New Corporate Portal Product

by L. Talarico ... Corporate portals can pull information from internal business ... the links between the numerous data sources and the ... Over 20 technology partners have entered into ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/eCommerce/2000/11/news_analysis/NA_EC_LJT_11_17_00_1.asp - 11k - 2000-11-17 Summary: Plumtree Software recently released Plumtree Corporate Portal 4.0, a new version of its portal product with a significant number of new “gadgets” and increased functionality to allow constituents outside the organization to view relevant information. Plumtree’s partnership development has led to a

What Good Is Information If Nobody Sees It?

by D. Geller ... easy to share data within the enterprise and also with partners, suppliers and ... to best integrate those data with their more familiar sources of information. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/eCommerce/2000/06/news_analysis/NA_EC_DPG_06_16_00_3.asp - 11k - 2000-06-16 Summary: Keeping detailed historical information is a great idea in theory, but how can it be merged with current data to enable split-second decisions? Two companies partner to solve a significant problem in e-commerce.

Acta Gets Active

by M. Reed ... providing a real-time, online dialogue with customers and partners. By providing a flow of information across a wide variety of data sources, organizations may ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2000/05/news_analysis/NA_DW_MFR_05_25_00_1.asp - 8k - 2000-05-25 Summary: Active Software, Inc. a provider of e-business infrastructure software products, and Acta Technology, Inc., an extract/transform/load tool vendor, today announced a partnership that will help to enable real-time business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce.