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- Manufacturing Intelligence
- The perfect factory is one that uses real-time manufacturing intelligence to achieve the best performance with minimal unscheduled downtime. As market leaders, these model plants are highly efficient, productive, and profitable. By implementing new technology strategies that yield real-time manufacturing intelligence, manufacturers can achieve high levels of optimization and overall...
- Tags: Factory, Manufacturing Intelligence, Manufacturing
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- The HP Neoview Enterprise-Class Data Warehousing Platform for Manufacturing Business Intelligence
- As a decision-maker in the dynamic and highly competitive manufacturing industry, how can one rank the information challenges that face the enterprise? This is a difficult question to answer, given the complex set of entities and processes involved in bringing a product to market. But certain themes related to Business...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Neoview Platform, Manufacturing, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2006-10-01
- TechNet Webcast: Asset Intelligence (Level 300)
- This webcast focuses on Asset Intelligence covering past, present, and future releases. It covers lessons learned, best practices, and 'dos' and 'don'ts' for Asset Intelligence 1.0 Service Pack 3 (SP3). The webcast demonstrates and discusses the usage and limitations of the latest set of Client Access License CAL reports introduced...
- Tags: Asset, Webcast, Microsoft TechNet, Asset Management, Digital Media, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts 2007-11-12
- Fuel Cell Maker Cuts Time-to-Market Up to 30 Percent With Business Intelligence Solution
- Ballard Power Systems, a world leader in fuel cell development, needed to give its researchers faster, fuller insights into manufacturing and test processes and data, in order to cut time-to-market and increase competitiveness. Ballard plans to achieve its goals - including a 30 percent cut in time-to-market - with a...
- Tags: Fuel Cell, Ballard Power Systems, Microsoft Corp., Fuel Cells, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Business Intelligence, Databases, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Management, Software, Data Management
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- The Intelligence Education Framework for the 21st Century
- This paper addresses the concept of establishing a community-wide intelligence education framework that meets the needs of intelligence professionals at all levels of federal, state, and local government. In its current form, Intelligence Education and Training IET is composed of many schools and programs that cover the intelligence cycle. However,...
- Tags: Northrop Grumman Corp., Government, Quality, Workforce Management, Vertical Industries, Business Operations, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2005-08-15
- Process Understanding in Manufacturing and Service: Transforming Process, Product and Service Data Into Business Intelligence
- For years, manufacturing and supply chain organizations have focused on developing products and services and streamlining processes to optimize resources and minimize waste. Those goals are still valid - even vital - but today's competitive global markets demand even more. It's no longer enough to have lean production processes and...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Supply Chain, SAS Institute, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-01-01
- SAP XMII Helps Chemicals Company Integrate Processes Across the Board
- NOVA Chemicals Corporation NOVA is moving toward increasing integration between the plant floor and executive suite. This move provides visibility for operators and manufacturing vice presidents alike by supplying role-based access to real-time information ? enabling them to adapt to operations, which maximizes corporate profitability. NOVA took one step closer...
- Tags: Chemicals, Board, SAP AG, Engineering, Corporate Governance, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Desktops, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-10-01
- Insurance Business Intelligence - A Model-Driven Approach to Integrated Analytics
- This paper discusses the issues involved in building an end-to-end business intelligence system, looks at the benefits that packaged intelligence models have to offer in such an environment, and reviews the insurance intelligence solutions available from SAS Institute. The SAS Business Intelligence platform includes a number of integrated software components...
- Tags: Analytics, SAS Institute, Business Intelligence System, SAS Business Intelligence Platform, Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance
- White papers 2002-11-18
- Orchestration of Service-Oriented Manufacturing Processes
- This paper outlines the perspectives opened by the application of the service-orientation paradigm for realizing high-level communications between next-generation, increasingly intelligent embedded devices - it indicates how this approach can benefit the manufacturing industry - and outlines the issues and approaches for cohesively coordinating manufacturing services at various levels of...
- Tags: Manufacturing
- White papers 2005-04-25
- Treatt Improves Business Agility to Boost Sales
- Treatt Plc, a world-leading supplier of ingredients which include essential oils and aroma chemicals to the flavor and fragrance industries, exports to more than 90 countries from its manufacturing sites in the United Kingdom and the U.S. The company wanted to manage global growth while reducing order lead times by...
- Tags: U.S., Supply Chain, Oracle Corp., U.K., Sales, Treatt, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
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- Spatial Intelligence: Location Matters
- Spatial Intelligence adds the geographic dimension to knowledge management through the sourcing and cleansing of business data, and the integration of spatial and traditional analytics and visualization to enhance Business and Predictive Intelligence. Bringing the power of spatial analysis to bear to measure past performance and results business intelligence and...
- Tags: Intelligence, SAS Institute, Spatial Intelligence, Knowledge Management, Research & Development, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2007-08-09
- Microsoft Dynamics Webcast: Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0 Solutions for Manufacturing and Distribution (Level 100)
- Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0 provides a familiar, comfortable software environment with flexibility that allows staff members to work the way that is most effective for them. They can maintain a clear focus on their responsibilities rather than struggle to learn new technologies. For managers and executives, Dynamics GP offers fast...
- Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Manufacturing, Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0, Digital Media, Tools & Techniques, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management
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- Galam Streamlines Manufacturing Processes and Improves Business Intelligence Reporting
- Galam was founded in 1940 and is Israel's leading manufacturer of fructose, glucose, and starch. The challenges were to implement an Enterprise Resource Planning ERP solution that can cope with the company's rapid growth, support mergers and acquisitions, and ease its international expansion; avoid having to process data manually from...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Oracle Corp., Oracle E-Business Suite, Galam, Manufacturing, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance
- Case studies
- Strategies to Run a Lean Supply Chain: How Principles of Lean Manufacturing Transfer Benefits to Operations
- The blurring of the line between manufacturing and supply chain logistics provides the opportunity to move efficient manufacturing management concepts to supply chain management. One manufacturing concept stands out as most successful: the concept of lean. This paper from Ventana Research describes lean manufacturing and how it can be applied...
- Tags: Strategy, Benefit, Lean Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations
- White papers 2007-04-20
- Aberdeen Group: For Mid-Size Manufacturers the Issue is Visible
- As manufacturing goes global, initiatives to standardize processes and key performance measurements across the enterprise to unite the greater supply chain are emerging. The main catalyst? Driving down costs in response to customer and market pressures. However, mid-size companies in particular are driving performance improvements with a more proactive, strategic...
- Tags: ERP, ERP system, IBM Corp., manufacturing, performance, supply chain, vision
- White papers 2006-08-08
- Accelerating Retail Business Intelligence
- Oracle Retail Business Intelligence Accelerator jumpstarts the business intelligence initiative in each phase of the project lifecycle, enabling a faster ROI on the project. The business intelligence solution provides retailers with packaged analytics and reports, which significantly reduces the time to value. The underlying infrastructure, with its integrated technology components,...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Retail Company, Oracle Retail Business Intelligence Accelerator, Business Intelligence Solution, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Retail, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Leveraging Intelligence Resources
- Intelligence agencies are under tremendous pressure to perform. Escalating terrorist threats from around the world have created national security imperatives to collate, decipher, corroborate, and disseminate accurate intelligence analyses effectively in a timely manner. The problem is that intelligence officers and analysts suffer from information overload. In reality, there are...
- Tags: Agency, Problem, Intelligence, Analyst, Machine Translation, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- White papers 2007-02-01
- Symbol Hands-Free Scanners Selected by TSW Manufacturing Ltd
- TSW Manufacturing Ltd. is a manufacturing company producing alloy wheels for both the aftermarket and as original equipment to the motor manufacturers. Before the introduction of the wireless wearable system solution from Symbol Technologies TSW Manufacturing used fixed position computers for data entry. With the Symbol system, they are able...
- Tags: Symbol Technologies Inc., TSW Manufacturing Ltd., Manufacturing, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
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- Emotional Intelligence (zip)
- Emotional Intelligence--what it is and why it is important defines Emotional Intelligence describes the benefits, identifies the key competencies, offers a few illustrative stories and serves as a preview to smart emotions for busy business people. Smart emotions is a "how to" book that teaches five simple techniques proven to...
- Tags: Byron Stock & Associates, Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2008-03-06
- How to Achieve High Performance through Superior Research & Development
- This paper presents results of a survey conducted by Accenture and the Economist Intelligence Unit to determine how large enterprises within the aerospace, telecommunications, tech manufacturing, and software development industries are spending their R&D budgets.
- Tags: Software/Web Development, Business Operations, Software Development, aerospace, Research & Development, High-performance, Accenture Ltd., R&D, manufacturing, software, survey, telecommunications
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