Feature Article

Hollywoods haunts: Autodesk to "democratize" industrial design as it has 3D product engineering

"Design, engineering, and entertainment are converging to address unprecedented global challenges," says Carl Bass, CEO and president of Autodesk, the largest CAD solutions vendor in the world. "Autodesk’s role is to provide visualization, simulation, and analysis tools that result in real or 'as-if' [i.e., entertainment] assets."
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Content-centric workflow: Intalio and Alfresco add documents to business processes

Traditional business process management (BPM) systems cover the basics: design, automation, orchestration, and workflow. A partnership between Intalio and Alfresco lays the groundwork for expanding BPM to include document and content management in a broader Business Process Platform, whereby processes involving applications throughout the enterprise are easily developed and managed.
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RFID Roundup: New tag technology developments reap operational benefits for some; see a national security-based boost for others

In the latest RFID news, tags from Alien Technology are allowing dairy products leader Daisy Brand to move beyond supplier mandates and reap benefits in its own operations and customer service, while tag vendor MIKOH is boosting tag security in partnership with the U.S. National Security Agency, and Impinj is mastering directional movement on tagged items.
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ERP integration: ATSCO "remanufactures" EDI with RedTail SaaS

As a supplier of remanufactured automotive steering components, ATSCO needed to support direct store delivery to thousands of locations within the specified 48-hour time period. The short order life cycle put the burden on suppliers to fulfill the orders and support the underlying EDI transactions with virtually no margin for error. That's why ATSCO turned to Redtail's Software-as-a-Service as an alternative to building an on-premise EDI solution.
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