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- Cisco, Philips, and Emergin Collaborate on Patient Monitoring Solution That Delivers Immediate Waveform and Text Medical Alarms to Clinicians
- Healthcare organizations aren't challenged with workflow automation - they expect partners to integrate their systems in a manner that improves a caregiver's effectiveness and efficiency. Clinicians can now receive mobile medical alarms, such as electrocardiogram alerts on wireless Internet Protocol IP phones, to help improve the quality of patient care...
- Tags: Workplace, Patient, Cisco Systems Inc., Clinician, Philips Electronics N.V.
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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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- Philips Leads Contactless RFID Technology Market
- By leveraging their broad technology base, Philips have produced some of the most advanced and reliable IC solutions on offer in today's identification market. With MIFARE's 80% share of the contactless smart card market, they are the global market leader in contactless smart card sales. In the smart label RFID...
- Tags: Smart Card, Philips Electronics N.V., Smart Cards, RFID, Authentication/Encryption, Sales Strategy, Digital Security, Supply Chain, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Sales, Business Operations
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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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- 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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- Intelligent Pallets Simplify Move to RFID Supply Chain Management Solutions
- Today's increasingly demanding world has driven the need for more economic, flexible and transparent logistics solutions. To ensure orders are fulfilled promptly, accurately and to the complete satisfaction of customers, Supply Chain Management SCM systems need to know the location and status of every order within the logistics network at...
- Tags: Logistics, RFID, SCM, Philips Electronics N.V., Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
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- RFID in the Fashion Industry
- With line items made in different colors and sizes, RFID smart tags and labels can be used to reduce the complexity of stocktaking within the supply chain and to speed up the distribution process. Smart labels not only overcome the inherent limitations of traditional barcode technology, but also provide new...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Smart Tags, Item, Industry, Philips Electronics N.V., Supply Chain Management (SCM), RFID, Enterprise Software, Software, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
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- Keeping Tires on Track
- Tire Pressure Monitoring System TPMS show a vast potential for growth, and Philips is building on its existing strengths in vehicle ID technology to meet the market's needs. The emerging TPMS market is a direct result of the US Transportation Recall Enhancement Accountability and Documentation TREAD Act. This act was...
- Tags: Vehicle, Tire, Philips Electronics N.V., Transportation
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- 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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- 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
- 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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- Idtechex Case Study: London Transport, UK
- The world's largest ticketing contract was awarded to TranSys, a consortium of EDS, Cubic, ICL and WS Atkins by London Transport in 1998. The TranSys consortium, led by EDS and Cubic, has selected among others, Philips' contactless chip technology for use in London's Oyster smartcard project, which began the first...
- Tags: Consortium, London, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Chip, Philips Electronics N.V., Semiconductors, Smart Cards, RFID, Network Technology, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Hardware, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Networking
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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 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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- 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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- Centralized Logistics System Integrates Management Information, CRM, and Purchasing
- Anticipating the further integration of the European market, Lamps Europe, the European business unit of Philips Lighting, began to restructure its organization in 1996 by forming three market groups. In the future, marketing and pricing policy would be decided centrally in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, while product distribution would be handled...
- Tags: Logistics, SAP AG, Pricing Strategy, CRM, Philips Electronics N.V., Supply Chain, Pricing, Marketing Research, Business Operations, Marketing
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- CES 08: Recapping the week at CES
- Well, it has been a couple of days since I returned from Vegas; however, I am still catching up on sleep. The TR team spent all day meeting with vendors and all night blogging and shooting videos about what we saw. Now that I've had a few...
- Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., LCD, NetGear, Philips Electronics N.V., Bug Base, Squeezebox Duet, Home Networking, Monitors & Displays, Networking, Personal Technology, Hardware, Components, Shawn Morton
- Blog posts 2008-01-14
- CNET hands out Best of CES 2008 honors, Philips takes top prize
- On Wednesday, TechRepublic's sister site CNET.com announced the winners of the Best of CES 2008 awards: Top winners Best in Show: Philips Eco TV People's Voice: Moto Rokr E8 Category winners Car...
- Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, CNET Networks Inc., Winner, Philips Electronics N.V., Smart Phones, TVs, GPS, Digital Cameras, Tv & Home Theater, Digital Photography, Media Players, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- 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
- Blog posts 2008-01-06
- 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
