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Philips Consumer Communications Enhances Its Ability to Deliver Highly Stable Software Using Rational Test RealTime

Philips Consumer Communications PCC is a Business Group of Philips Consumer Electronics, a division of Royal Philips Electronics, which is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Philips PCC needed a way to manage, develop and test multiple layers of the same tele-communications software that was being developed by geographically dispersed teams....

Tags: Software, Rational Test RealTime, IBM Corp., Philips Electronics N.V., Philips Consumer Communications, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management

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NEC Philips Improves Communications, Productivity With New Unified Solution

NEC Philips Unified Solutions NEC Philips, headquartered in the Netherlands, offers a range of enterprise communications solutions for customers in various market sectors. The company provides unified communications solutions based on Microsoft software. Its customers seek flexible communications solutions that help mobile workers be productive while away from the office,...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., NEC Corp., Philips Electronics N.V., Team Management, Management

White papers 2007-10-01

Maximizing Reuse in Product Communications

Philips Consumer Electronics PCE is one of the world's top three consumer electronics companies, and the largest in Europe. The company wanted simultaneous launch of new products across all markets and reduce translation management overhead and translation costs. The challenge was to reduce 4 month lead time for content to...

Tags: Web, Philips Consumer Electronics, EMC Corp., Channel Management, Storage, Marketing, Hardware

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SAP Solution Helps Philips CE Put the Customer at the Heart of Its Business

Faced with increasingly stiff competition, Philips Consumer Electronics decided to better understand its customers and use that knowledge to grow sales - while at the same time cutting costs and increasing efficiency. To accomplish its goals, the company turned to the mySAP Customer Relationship Management mySAP CRM solution. The mySAP...

Tags: mySAP, SAP AG, mySAP CRM, Philips Electronics N.V., Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Software

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Philips Semiconductors Manufactures Innovative Inventory Management Processes With Help From IBM

Philips needed to improve inventory management for high-volume integrated circuits to respond quickly to customer demands, minimize waste and reduce errors. By infusing its supply chain with sense-and-respond capabilities, Philips enabled greater responsiveness to market dynamics. A state-of-the-art real-time inventory tracking system - built with IBM's help using Philips RFID...

Tags: Philips Semiconductor, Inventory Management, Inventory Tracking, IBM Corp., Philips Electronics N.V., Enterprise Software, Software

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Philips Semiconductors Reduces Design Time Using Agilent Advanced Design System

A particularly important market for Philips Semiconductors is RF ICs Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits for mobile telephony and data communications. This market is booming - from cordless phones using the DECT protocol to second-generation mobile phones using GSM, through GPRS and EDGE (2G+), to third-generation (3G), W-CDMA and UMTS devices,...

Tags: Telephony, Philips Semiconductor, Agilent Technologies Inc., Telecom & Utilities, VOIP, Telecommunications, Cellular Phones, 3G, Wireless, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

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Philips Semiconductors Uses TIBCO to Improve Its Supply Chain

Philips Semiconductors is a world leader in silicon systems and standard products for wireless communications, digital entertainment, computing, and automotive applications. The company still faces increased customer demands for faster time to market. To stay competitive, companies are being forced to reinvent themselves so that the supply chain - encompassing...

Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., Supply Chain, Philips Semiconductor, Supply Chain Management (SCM), B2B, EAI, Business Process Automation, Purchasing & Procurement, Enterprise Software, Wireless, Software, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Middleware, It Operations, Business Operations

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Photo: Philips brightens up textile tech

At the IFA show, Philips Research is showing off a jacket with a textile that lets fabrics display changing colors, graphics.

Tags: Philips Electronics N.V., jacket, fabric, graphics, photograph

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Checkpoint & Philips Alliance Supports RFID

Most retailers already understand that RFID offers long-term savings: reduced shrinkage (through EAS for in-store product protection) and labor costs, as well as fewer lost sales because, for example, an item is out of stock. What deters them is the initial outlay and cost of each label. At a time...

Tags: Alliance, Philips Electronics N.V., RFID, Retail, Wireless, Security, Biometrics

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Philips Medical Systems and Its Customers Reap the Benefits of Enterprise Integration

Electronics, Philips Medical Systems is a leading global manufacturer of a wide range of diagnostic imaging, monitoring, and other equipment to customers in more than 100 countries around the globe. As a part of the company's information systems transformation goal, Philips Medical Systems decided to migrate business-critical functions onto a...

Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., Enterprise Integration, Philips Medical Systems, Benefit, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting

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Philips Semiconductors Manufactures Innovative Inventory Management Processes

As part of an initiative to improve efficiency and enhance customer service, Philips determined it needed to streamline information management processes within its manufacturing and distribution supply chain. Philips turned to IBM Business Consulting Services to help infuse its supply chain with more responsive, efficient inventory management processes. The introduction...

Tags: Philips Semiconductor, Inventory Management, IBM Corp., Philips Electronics N.V., Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software

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Philips Medical Systems Cures Storage Heartache With the Intel Entry Storage System SS4000-E

Until recently, images sent to the Philips Xcelera Focus system were stored on 5-1/4" optical disks and managed via third-party storage software. But this process was quite labor intensive for their customers, who often have very little technical know-how. When clinicians needed to view and compare a patient's prior exams,...

Tags: Philips Medical Systems, Storage System, Intel Corp., Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Hardware

Case studies 2007-10-01

Mixing Vision With Potential: Lotus eMail Opens the Path to KM for Philips

When Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands decided to unify its diverse assortment of email systems, the IT department had more in mind than simplifying messaging technology. The company had a vision. Once they created the Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino messaging spine, Philips could use the initial investment to...

Tags: Vision, Messaging, IBM Corp., Philips Electronics N.V., Knowledge Management, Business Intelligence, E-mail, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Online Communications, Management

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Leading Manufacturer Uses CRM Solution to Efficiently Manage Global Sales Network

Philips Enabling Technologies Group, a division of Royal Philips Electronics, provides high-end manufacturing technology, product and production engineering, and supply-chain management to companies in the capital-equipment industry. However, the company's spreadsheet-based processes for managing sales and tracking salespeople, customers, and customer quotes was cumbersome and didn't provide the information necessary...

Tags: CRM Solution, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Philips Electronics N.V., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Sales, Software

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Photos: LG.Philips LCD's display tech

Showcased at the Mobile Displays Conference this week in San Diego, LG.Philips LCD's screens for mobile devices are designed to be compact and efficient.

Tags: conference, LG.Philips LCD Co. Ltd., mobile, mobile device, mobile marketing, photograph, San Diego

Image galleries 2006-10-05

LG.Philips LCD Restructures Global Operations With Oracle E-Business Suite, Projects Benefits Totaling US$104.7 Million Over Five Years

In 1999, LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd., a joint venture of Netherlands-based Philips Electronics N.V and South Korean manufacturer LG Electronics Inc., achieved record sales revenue, setting an industry milestone by selling more than 1 million liquid crystal displays LCDs for monitors. Three years later, however, LCD sales were weakening amid...

Tags: LG.Philips LCD Co. Ltd., Oracle Corp., Oracle E-Business Suite, Benefit, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Financial Management, Strategy, Sales, Financial Planning, Finance, Management

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Only Three Days to Major Productivity Gains for Philips Broadcast Systems With Solid Edge

Philips, a leading provider of television and radio broadcast equipment, converted from the manual drawing board to a 3D wireframe CAD system in 1985. Philips' wanted to increase complexity of broadcast studio products. The demands were for faster product development. The company faced inefficiency of existing design automation tools. The...

Tags: Siemens AG, Philips Electronics N.V., Product Development, CAD, Product Marketing, Research & Development, Strategy, Business Operations, Software, Marketing, Management

Case studies 2007-09-01

Philips: Semiconductors Division - Project Renaissance Revitalizes Extranet Portal Architecture, Delivering Significant Business Value

The semiconductors division of Royal Philips Electronics is headquartered in Eindhoven. Philips wanted to lower total cost of ownership and enhance performance through migration to common portal architecture via upgrade of all application software. They also needed to establish development best practices and architectural frameworks for future IT initiatives. They...

Tags: Sun ONE, Extranet, Semiconductor, International Data Group, Philips Electronics N.V., Portals, Web Technology, J2Ee, Java, Application Servers, Middleware, Internet, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Programming Languages, Enterprise Software, Software

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Supply Chain Management & Beyond

As a worldwide market leader in Radio Frequency IDentification RFID, Philips is committed to an open standards approach to supply chain management. Optimized for all aspects of supply chain management, Philips ICs are already being used in hundreds of applications that use millions of ICs. RFID technologies have significant potential...

Tags: Supply Chain, Integrated Circuit, SCM, Philips Electronics N.V., Supply Chain Management (SCM), RFID, Semiconductors, Enterprise Software, Software, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Hardware

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CES 08: Philips embraces their feminine side... too much

The Philips press event was all about their new design philosophy which combines masculine and feminine elements to take advantage of the role that women play in the buying process. According to Philips, women make 40% of the consumer electronics purchase decisions in the $200 billion CE industry, so they...

Tags: Blu-ray, Philips Electronics N.V., Gender And Diversity, Bluetooth, Human Resources, Wireless, Shawn Morton

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