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The reality of today’s application environment is that no single application meets all of the needs of a business, or frequently
even the needs of a single business process, so multiple applications must work together to support business processes. (...)
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... number of Enterprise Integration Architecture (EIA) vendors on the market today to realize that the typical
business is still running multiple systems, and a ...
Published:
2003-02-27
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All the recent management trends from Continuous Improvement to Business Process Re-engineering have had the same issue we
see with E-Business. They have enterprise-wide implications and tend to become part of the corporate department that started
the initiative. This article recommends a more strategi (...)
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Should E-Business Be Inside or Outside of IT? William ... Editor's note: I have tried
to distinguish e-business from E-Business. When ...
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2003-07-05
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Microsoft Business Network (MBN) has the potential to deliver the never really (or hardly ever) realized benefits of early
dot-com era Internet trading exchanges or networks that could reasonably and effectively link customers to their trading partners. (...)
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... sending and receiving business documents, the flexibility of business
process template ... and CRM product lines, and deeper integration with multiple EDI systems.
...
Published:
2004-09-02
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While on the surface, there are few economic or strategic reasons for organizations to persist with electronic data interchange
(EDI), many seem reluctant to adopt the alternative at this stage. In fact, there has been almost negligible growth in the
number of organizations replacing their EDI-based sy (...)
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... which are a default for a vast majority of ERP systems that require ...
based on the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) supply chain business practices, while ...
Published:
2004-09-03
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Business processes must be enabled across the artificial boundaries of disparate applications that must work together to
support these business processes. To that end, business process management (BPM) could assist in compliance issues, can reduce
training requirements, and increase the overall efficienc (...)
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... able to model the application to how an organization does business with trading ...
that involve multiple companies and a diversity of existing enterprise systems. ...
Published:
2004-05-18
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While the Microsoft Business Network (MBN) product is worth considering for a number of compelling reasons, it will take
some immense doing before it becomes a retailers' equivalent of what the Sabre reservation system means to airline agents. (...)
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... EDI emerged in the 1960s when the railroad industry sought a way to speed up and automate business
communications between remote computer systems, and to ...
Published:
2004-09-01
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Three minutes of labor from purchase requisition to invoice payment; fully executed due diligence; commitment authorization
and no delays. That is the promise of e-procurement and the potential is there for the taking - but not without risk. Extensive
preparation is necessary and full integration with r (...)
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E-Procurement Is Not Electronic Purchasing - Part II. J. Dowling - November 14, 2000. Comments: 0. Read Comments E-Procurement
Is Not Electronic Purchasi.
Published:
2000-11-14
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Business processes must be enabled across the artificial boundaries of disparate applications that must work together to
support these business processes. To that end, business process management (BPM) could assist in compliance issues, can reduce
training requirements, and increase the overall efficienc (...)
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... able to model the application to how an organization does business with trading ...
that involve multiple companies and a diversity of existing enterprise systems. ...
Published:
2004-05-18
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Welcome to the customer experience. We all have them. Some are good, others bad. A variety of factors - the user interface
(UI), customer support, marketing messages, etc. - shape these experiences. All of these things collectively create our view
of a product, service or provider. (...)
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... Rubin's job was to make these systems more user-friendly. ... Rubin's
group helps clients implement user-focused principles across their entire business. ...
Published:
2002-01-18
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"Agility", "real time enterprise", "zero latency" ... these are among the several buzzwords doing the rounds these days.
Some would characterize these present times as belonging to the "Real Time Decade." Are these words just hype or do they proffer
a vision of reality for the near future? This article a (...)
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... Every business event has a window of opportunity within which the users and systems
can react to the information contained within the context of the event. ...
Published:
2004-04-07
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Over past two decades, Ross Systems has delivered strong back-office functionality and good customer support within certain
industries; it is considered a leader in native process manufacturing functionality. The company has also expanded its online
operations through its RenaissanceLink software applica (...)
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Over past two decades, Ross Systems has delivered strong back-office functionality and good customer support within certain
industries; it is cons...
Published:
2000-07-20
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Astute IT strategies should help any company develop a strong competitive advantage whether it be improved time-to-market,
better insights about customers behavior and preferences, or to devise a more efficient supply chain. This should be embraced
by Sears Holding and Federation/May. (...)
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Astute IT strategies should help any company develop a strong competitive advantage whether it be improved time-to-market,
better insights about c...
Published:
2005-04-20
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Although Jeeves has developed a very fruitful relationship with its partners, it will still have to overcome challenges that
are mainly about lack of respect or recognition—that is, if there is even any recognition of Jeeves at all. (...)
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Although Jeeves has developed a very fruitful relationship with its partners, it will still have to overcome challenges that
are mainly about lack...
Published:
2006-04-20
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Enterprise Application Integration vendor Extricity announced a business-to-business alliance with Moai Technologies, Inc.,
to provide a full-range of automated e-commerce systems. Moai’s Dynamic Commerce Markup Language (DCML) is an XML-standard
compliant language for dynamic commerce markets, and co (...)
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Enterprise Application Integration vendor Extricity announced a business-to-business alliance with Moai Technologies, Inc.,
to provide a full-rang...
Published:
2000-05-11
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The launch of irista mimics a trend among supply chain management vendors to achieve a higher profile for their products
amid a multitude of competitive offerings. (...)
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The launch of irista mimics a trend among supply chain management vendors to achieve a higher profile for their products amid
a multitude of compe...
Published:
2000-06-21
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There is certainly room to ask the fundamental question of whether the traditional practice of RFI/RFP-based selection processes
has been adequate for the task of selecting complex systems. The record indicates there is much room for improvement. In essence,
for complex selections like in the case of ent (...)
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There is certainly room to ask the fundamental question of whether the traditional practice of RFI/RFP-based selection processes
has been adequate...
Published:
2003-10-27
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ERP remains the information backbone for contemporary manufacturing enterprises. However, today's ERP systems are required
to address more than traditional processes taking place within the walls of an enterprise. This is a concise ERP reference
guide for anyone needing a general knowledge of ERP feature (...)
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ERP remains the information backbone for contemporary manufacturing enterprises. However, today's ERP systems are required
to address more than tr...
Published:
2001-02-05
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While the recent joining of complementary forces by Microsoft Business Solutions and Autodesk will make many heads turn,
a lot more detail and clarifications are needed for the alliance to establish itself as an ERP-PLM superpower in the mid-market. (...)
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While the recent joining of complementary forces by Microsoft Business Solutions and Autodesk will make many heads turn, a
lot more detail and cla...
Published:
2003-11-17
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Linking data to process is the realm of business process management (BPM). BPM's focus on process dramatically reduces the
amount of data that needs to be moved, and thereby reduces both the initial cost and ongoing maintenance cost of application
integration. (...)
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Linking data to process is the realm of business process management (BPM). BPM's focus on process dramatically reduces
the amount of data that ne...
Published:
2003-05-30
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I'm Lyndsay Wise, senior research analyst at Technology Evaluation Centers. Welcome to another in TEC's series of enterprise
software Showdowns. Today's Showdown pits three of the top business performance management (BPM) vendors against each other
in a head-to-head contest: Hyperion System 9 vs. Outlook (...)
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I'm Lyndsay Wise, senior research analyst at Technology Evaluation Centers. Welcome to another in TEC's series of
enterprise software Showdowns. T...
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2007-05-30