Manufacturing Business Technology - October 1, 2005
Cover Story
Small wonders
In these days of enterprise software market consolidation, why would a manufacturer buy from a small company that may not be around for long when larger software companies beckon? The short answer is that emerging vendors continue to develop unique capabilities that meet a vertical-industry need, or target shop-floor functions at which large enterprise system vendors have tended ...
- Applications and Services
- In brief
- How times have changed
- ERP Market Snapshot
- Enterprise vendors get boost from small buyers, strategic add-ons
- Intellectual Property
- Protecting product information means blending business solutions
- Master Data Management
- Product information systems embrace company data for a single version of the truth
- Targeting Verticals
- SAP says medium-size business strategy pays off
- Business Performance
- Getting lean is a group exercise
- In brief
- Ask Aberdeen Group
- What's the point of business performance management initiatives?
- Case-In-Point
- Marsan Foods finds real-time monitoring improves overall performance
- Document Management
- Data problems—and solutions—come in many forms
- IT Priority-Setting
- Study reveals extracting value is top IT governance imperative
- Optimization Engines
- Global competition could be a boon for best-of-breed vendors
- Partnerships
- Vendor agreements seek to enable sustainable regulatory, environmental compliance
- Search Engines
- Niche search engines pinpoint specific needs
- Columnists
- Integration and Infrastructure
- Intel inside the BMW
- Case-In-Point
- Hosted PIM smoothes trading-partner relationships at International Paper
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Sun acquiring SeeBeyond says integration isn't a stand-alone solution
- Service-Oriented Architecture
- What you don't know about SOAs could hurt your business
- Security and Wireless
- Securing the process industries
- Beyond Slap-And-Ship
- RFID will find first home in CPG and pharmaceuticals
- Business Continuity
- Preplanning enables remote operation when public infrastructure fails
- Imaging Technologies
- New printers still based on line-matrix technology
- Intellectual Property
- RFID community working to share patents—with one notable exception
- Security Standards
- New ISO framework addresses IT system security risk, vulnerability
- The Monitoring Movement
- Lower costs for machine-to-machine communication will lead to new industrial applications
- This Just In
- Alliance Lab logs RFID tag study results online
- Views From the Front
- Acquisitions
- Infor buys process-specific PLM vendor, Formation Systems; BEA extends portal line with Plumtree
- Compliance Initiatives
- Unified project grid puts regulatory projects in the IT safe zone
- Corporate
- Industry vendor gets nod from the man himself
- Data Integration
- IBM releases first results of Ascential acquisition
- Going Paperless
- Trade document control system lightens the load on goods-shipment processes
- Growth Markets
- Warehousing solutions vendors consolidate for takeoff
- Information Technology
- Specifications seek to reroute e-mail
- Market Confidence
- Global executives seem more pessimistic; report cites political turmoil as factor
- Operations
- Big consulting expertise available to small companies
- Service Markets
- IBM transforms its own supply chain success into revenue stream
- The Politics of Manufacturing
- NAM attracts spotlight with endorsement of John Roberts for Supreme Court
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