Manufacturing Business Technology 07/01/2006 Table of Contents

Manufacturing Business Technology - July 01, 2006

Business Performance

Perfecting the intelligent enterprise

Cognos

One solution for how, why, and "what if?"

SAS Institute

Seeing the trees, and then the forest

Columnists

Back Talk

It's time for vendors to find their niche in life

Up Front

Supply chain for a better, safer world

Computing Infrastructure

Enterprise software: a new beginning

Cisco Systems

A solutions-based approach to enterprise and plant-floor networking

Hewlett-Packard Co.

The adaptive enterprise drawn from multiple threads

IBM

Becoming a different kind of traditional enterprise

Microsoft Corp.

New version of BizTalk includes upgraded EDI and RFID support

RFID Roundup

RFID Roundup

Symantec

Network technology to counter the sophisticated criminal

Enterprise/Supply Chain

It's all about the architecture

Ariba

Soft landing leads to pliable spend-management program

Epicor Software

Proving bigger isn't always better

Glovia International

Singularly focused vendor responds to changed planning needs

i2 Technologies

Promises made, and delivered

Infor/SSA GT

Purchase of SSA GT changes ERP system landscape

Microsoft Business Solutions

Bill Gates speaks on enterprise systems and the desktop

Oracle

Fusion of ERP solutions, and a look at the plant floor ahead

QAD

Agile enough to follow manufacturing market demand

Sage Software

ERP and more for SMBs that want freedom of choice

Salesforce.com

On-demand leader says it has the bases covered

SAP

Services architecture, growing partnerships mark metamorphosis

Supply Chain Roundup

Supply chain roundup

Plant-floor Operations

Information, not just automation

Brooks Software

MES as the cure for complexity

Citect

Eventful year for plant applications vendor

GE Fanuc

Get more: Proficy suite moves toward unified view

Honeywell Process Automation

Award cites security gain, while keeping premium on information

Invensys Process Systems

Diverse capabilities united in an IT infrastructure for the plant floor

OSIsoft

A 25th anniversary finds founder "feeling great"

Rockwell Software

Making a way through a maze of plant-floor applications

Siemens

Production control is central to the enterprise

Product Innovation

Years in the making

Adobe Systems

Solutions for document-based communication

Agile Software

Understanding PLM requirements drives growth

Autodesk

Outsourcing flourishes when based on 3D collaboration

PTC

Companies want simplistic data sharing in product development

UGS

PLM functionality now available on a desktop near you

Views From the Front

Corporate

Diversity finds priority in corporate giving

Data Access

Capturing elusive data in extended supply chains calls for cross-functional perspective

Digital Manufacturing

Exploiting the value of PLM calls for process maturity

Information Technology

IBM wants email users to march to the penguin

IT Outsourcing

Low-level to moderate competency plagues offshore initiatives and strategies

Multicountry Strategy

Reports conclude global trade "actually works"

Operations

Many ERP systems are underused

Security Management

Fraud, information access trump high-profile IT attacks in 2005—and today

Service-Oriented Architecture

IBM sets forth on the innovation landscape armed with SOA