Manufacturing Business Technology - October 1, 2006
Cover Story
Momentum matters
In the 1990s it was easy to start a software company. Raise between $5 million and $40 million, hire a hotshot team of executives, and get a high-profile market research firm to anoint the chosen space with a three-letter acronym—or TLA. Once you were on track to reach an annual revenue rate of $40 million, it was off to the initial public offering (IPO) races.
- Applications and Services
- Comergent's enterprise system extensions reach out to partners, customers
- Extending into lean
- Case-In-Point
- Oracle E-Business suite helps innovative biotech cope with FDA compliance
- Lean Manufacturing
- Real-world workshops reveal disconnect between lean programs, aspirations
- Plant Intelligence
- Real-time performance management requires an intelligent backup
- Supply Chain Roundup
- Trends, tips, and tools from experts in planning and execution
- Business Performance
- The rebirth of knowledge management
- Ask AberdeenGroup
- What KPI metrics do best-in-class companies monitor?
- Case-In-Point
- Prepackaged integration solution becomes change agent for chemical manufacturer
- Data-Access Strategies
- Brooks Software sees “unified” user interface as key to SOA usage
- Globalization
- Survey confirms need for automation in domestic and international supply chains
- Labor Management
- Workforce optimization apps extend lean endeavors
- Columnists
- Back Talk
- Uncovering the value of SOA
- Up Front
- Addressing China's need for ERP
- Feature
- Integration and Infrastru cture
- Integration and Infrastructure
- Services as business process start point
- webMethods extends SOA portfolio with Cerebra metadata technology, Infravio governance solutions
- Case-In-Point
- Novell OS enables employee access to applications with single ID, password
- Mobile Solutions
- Lawson Software, Avnet tap DSI for automated data capture
- Special Report
- Industry Profile: Medical Device
- Healing Time
- View From the Front
- 60 Seconds
- What's driving IT spending?
- Views From the Front
- Accenture puts millions into industry-specific services
- Corporate
- Microsoft, Google, Big 3 auto press Congress for R&D tax credit
- Data Storage
- Tiny HP memory chip pilots with big momentum
- ERP Platforms
- IBM reaffirms support for JDE solutions set
- IT Governance
- Auto suppliers fail to leverage full value of IT
- Industrial Automation
- ISA accepts proposals to move wireless standards forward
- Information Technology
- The right ESB could ensure SOA success
- Operations
- Web site demonstrates live integrated control and HMI solutions
- Project Collaboration
- Business process platform overcomes design-time limits
- Software Procurement
- GM backs IT purchasing standards for highly effective buyers, suppliers
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