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| Schiesser Sets Textile Industry Benchmark with IT System Renewal |
By Andrew Dalziel
After four years of evaluation and two years of implementation, Schiesser has developed the optimal system to improve its internal business
processes and renew its IT environment, and is now regarded as a leader in the textile industry. With the introduction of a multi-unit system and EDI fully integrated in the Lawson M3 Enterprise Management System (formerly Movex from Intentia), Schiesser has laid down a benchmark for IT in the textile industry.
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| Computer Business Review: Lawson a Contender |
By Lawson Software
"There is still plenty of choice beyond SAP and Oracle when it comes to business application vendors," says Computer Business Review in its August issue. Lawson is one of the choices profiled in "The Contenders."
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| SAP Reports 43 Percent Profit Jump |
| Business software maker SAP AG said Thursday its net profit rose 43 percent in the second quarter on higher U.S. revenues and better margins
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| SAP Takes Another Hard Look at the GIS Market |
By Joe Francica
SAP has offered geospatial solutions in collaboration with ESRI for a number of years. SAP management believes, however, that the fundamentals of the market have changed. According to Oliver Mainka, SAP's GIS program manager, the company has taken the last 18 months to reevaluate the solutions that it brings to its substantial existing customer base. This self-analysis comes at a time when SAP' s main competitor, Oracle, has an established clientele, a mature technology, and an appetite for purchasing companies in market segments designed to displace SAP. In the fiercely competitive arena of enterprise applications, such as customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) and the systems integration services that may accompany them, SAP and Oracle have nearly equal market share with approximately 20% each
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| How to Deal with Sick Stock |
By Andrew Dalziel
Recently, reports in the media of newly discovered cases of bird flu in various parts of the world garnered big headlines and raised anxiety levels. Poultry producers were especially affected as fears flourished of the disease infecting
livestock, and the possibility of it affecting humans. An nanticipated development,
however, was that poultry producers have now recognized how crucial a modern logistics solution can be in ensuring and demonstrating the safety
of animal food products.
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| Lotus Notes and SAP R/3 Integration: A review of the LSX environment ,By Mark Huffman and Damien O'Neill |
| The LSX environment provides easy access to SAP R/3 via remote function calls and standard transactions. This functionality will appeal to many SAP sites that already have a substantial investment in a Notes infrastructure. There will be intense internal debates about the relative merits and development effort for new "front-end" applications. There will also be ample opportunities for development teams to combine the strengths of the ABAP/4 Workbench with those of Lotus Script. Paradoxically, sites that have yet to go live with SAP may well have the most to gain in terms of user acceptance, if they can provide access to the new SAP system from an already familiar Notes environment.
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| Gate Methodology |
| Everyone has heard the horror stories of cost overruns on SAP programmes. While there are a few factors which are outside the control of the programme managers (e.g. business change, funding withdrawn) the majority of the responsibility lies at their door.
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| ERP landscape: A year in (p)review |
| What did your ERP provider achieve last year, and what are its plans for 2006? Find out the answers to these questions and more in iStart’s review/preview of 2005/2006...
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| SSA Global Extends ERP, PLM Data Integration |
| Looking to keep its ERP software in sync with the evolving distributed design chain, SSA Global recently updated its product lifecycle management (PLM) offering to help harmonize product engineering and configuration processes with planning, purchasing and financial management activities.
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| SAP Mobile Engine Introduction |
| Information is the lifeblood of business in today’s increasingly interconnected world. The flow of Information across the physical confines of an enterprise is being driven by technological developments resulting in "true mobility" for its stakeholders. Businesses embracing this idea are reinventing themselves as boundaryless organizations, where access and interaction can be instant.
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| IBM's Bob Sutor sees interest in open-source mounting |
| IBM’s vice president of standards and open-source, sees 2006 as the year when a number of industries will move to embrace open-source software -- and he expects IBM to play a role in many of those efforts. Sutor, who spoke with Computerworld last week, also weighed in on the role of Linux and offered his thoughts on Massachusetts’ OpenDocument plans. Excerpts from the interview follow:
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| Making mergers matter |
| From a company that started out on the path of consolidation much earlier than its counterparts, here's a piece of advice from enterprise resource planing vendor SSA Global Technologies Inc.: "Don' t consolidate for the sake of consolidating."
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| Fundamentals of Supporting ERP-Linked Databases |
| On average, the majority of ERP systems rely on three or more databases to complete their tasks. Keeping these integration points scalable as transactions increase (in an order management system, for example) takes forethought and planning. Exacerbating this problem is the need to show audit trails during Sarbanes-Oxley audits. Louis Columbus examines the integration points that merit special attention.
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| Power ECM And ERP Integration |
| This VAR built a nationwide business selling software that integrates content management platforms with ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems
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| ERP Versus BoB |
| In the past two years, ERP providers have made increasingly aggressive efforts to boost their presence in the SCM software applications market, traditionally dominated by the best of breed providers.
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| Automation For Information |
| "Making chips" is a common-enough expression for describing production metalworking, but chips are not the only byproduct of production. Another byproduct is information. In addition to making chips, you're also making data. And today, it' s possible to put that data to use.
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| ERP Boosts Productivity And Paves Way For Horizontal Milling Center |
| When T. C. Scott Machining Inc. (Wilsonville, Oregon), a 15-person prototype shop, experienced a dramatic increase in business volume last year, a potential crisis loomed. The small company had 200 customers and 60 active jobs, many of them multi-component prototyping jobs with tight turnaround. The increase in business was leading to unpredictability and potential problems.
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| How CFOs Prepare Their Finance Organization for the Challenges of the Future |
| The role of the chief financial officer in an enterprise has been undergoing a radical change for some time now. What do today' s CEOs expect from their CFOs? How does this impact on the role of CFOs and the finance organization? What "finance transformation" strategies do they apply to enable finance to meet the challenges of the future?
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| Attracting the 'Passive Candidate' |
| The passive candidate has long held a certain mystic among hiring managers; difficult to identify and even more difficult to recruit, these professionals are considered by many to be the “Holy Grail” of job candidates for two primary reasons:
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| Software Helps Shop Automate Quality System |
| For Apex Design Technology (Anaheim, California), a comprehensive quality system is imperative because its customers—which include Boeing, Lockheed, BAE Systems and NASA—all require extensive paper trails. Two years ago, the company realized it needed to replace its time-intensive paper-based system with an automated online system.
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| King County ready to restart ERP effort |
| After spending $39 million on an ERP system that failed to meet management' s goals for the project, King County in Washington would like to have another crack at succeeding.
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| SAP buys manufacturing software maker Lighthammer |
| Business software vendor SAP AG plans to acquire privately held Lighthammer Software Development Corp. next month and will integrate its software with ERP' s xApps family of composite applications.
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| Lawson swallows European ERP vendor |
| Lawson Software Inc. announced today that it plans to acquire Sweden-based Intentia International AB in a $480 million deal expected to close by January.
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| Trends, challenges and success factors in KM |
| In these eight articles David Skyrme reflects on the past, present and future of knowledge management and offers us his vision concerning trends, challenges and success factors in the field.
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| ERP at Your Service |
| ERP vendors are busily retooling ERP applications around service-oriented architectures and promising unprecedented flexibility. Users could see real benefits -- eventually
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| An Analysis of the Imagine PA Public Sector ERP Project |
| This paper first identifies various differences in ERP implementation methodologies deployed in the public and private sectors, and then focuses on the issues and success factors of one large-scale public sector ERP project. Finally, these issuess and success factors are compared to private sector ERP implementations.
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| Bungled ERP Installation Whacks Asyst |
| A failed ERP implementation at a majority-owned Japanese unit caused significant financial woes to Asyst Technologies, a maker of semiconductor automation products
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| IBM Shedding PCs for Services, On-demand |
| IBM's (Quote, Chart) decision to sell its personal computing division to China's leading PC maker Lenovo for $1.75 billion spawned diverse reactions in the industry.
Pund-It analyst and founder Charles King said Dell and HP will try to capitalize on IBM's exodus.
"Since Lenovo is not well known in the West, there' s lots of available fear, uncertainty and doubt to spread about why businesses should avoid working with them," King noted.
To be sure, rival HP sees the news as a market opportunity because of the potential of a little fear, uncertainty and doubt that IBM may create by shedding its popular ThinkPad line, according to Deb Nelson, senior vice president of marketing
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| CA Picks SAP's Apps for Global ERP System |
| Computer Associates said it will use SAP's ERP applications to unify its accounting procedures and other business operations worldwide. The project is part of CA' s efforts to live up to a deal with the Department of Justice that could let it avoid prosecution over an alleged accounting fraud scheme
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| CA picks SAP for ERP rollout |
| Computer Associates will install an SAP ERP system to replace a collection of homegrown accounting systems. Accenture will help with the implementation.
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| How to Live with ERP Systems and Thrive |
| This paper offers one example of how the Faculty of Informatics and Communication (Infocom) at Central Queensland University has learned to live and thrive with CQU' s ERP system.
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| State Avoids Tax Refund on ERP System |
| A judge refused to order the state of Wisconsin to refund a half-million dollars in sales tax paid by Menasha Corp., ruling that customized packaged applications aren' t exempt from sales taxes as is software written from scratch
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| Enterprise Resource Planning Considerations |
| According to the author, ERP implementations are more likely to fail, be delayed, cost more than forecast or fail to deliver full functionality than they are to succeed. It is important to be aware of how ERP as a technology evolved, what its strengths and weaknesses are, and the nature of important implementation challenges.
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| ERP Investment: Business Impact and Productivity Measures |
| In this paper, the authors systematically study the productivity and business performance effects of ERP using a unique dataset on firms that have purchased licenses for the SAP R/3 system. Their goal is to better understand the economics of ERP implementations specifically, and more broadly, contribute to the understanding of the benefits of large-scale systems projects
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| Economics of Information Technology |
| This is an overview of economic phenomena that are important for high-technology industries. Topics covered include personalization of products and prices, versioning, bundling, switching costs, lock-in, economies of scale, network effects, standards, and systems effects.
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| Evaluation of Strategic IT Platform Investments |
| Summary:
This paper presents a conceptual framework for classifying different types of risk associated with major IT platform investments in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction environment.
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| Enhancing Student Learning in Accounting and Business Information Systems |
| This paper utitlizes a description of the integrated use of Tarrant Woods Wines, an authentic business, and the writers configuration of JDEdwards EnterpriseOne. Their new pedagogy is being implemented over succesive semesters and they report student feedback in order to fine tune their learning design for the future
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| CIO Discusses IT Methods for Mergers |
| Avnet CIO Ed Kamins talks about overseeing projects ranging from a global server and ERP system consolidation to the integration of Memec, Avnet' s latest acquisition.
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| Cisco on Video |
| The networking equipment giant is sure of the return on investment for its e-learning system
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| Understanding Biases in ERP Systems Adoption Decisions |
| Much literature on ERP has been written with an emphasis on the implementation stage. This stage receives much attention because ERP project is costly and risky. User organizations would get benefits from the system if they successfully implement it, but they might totally lose their business if they fail at this stage
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| They Got It Together |
| Four winning companies demonstrate the true value of integration by achieving a single view of their customers and their data, saving time and money along the way.
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| After laptops, sub-55 k Notebooks |
| Potential notebook buyers are in for a bonanza. Acer, the Taiwanese computer king, is introducing a Pentium 4-based notebook for sub-Rs 55,000, a move which is likely to provoke its MNC competitors.
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| Extreme ERP Makeover |
| The grand ERP vision of one application and one database for everything your company does may finally be achievable. But does that mean you should rip out all your systems and replace them with a single instance? Here' s how to decide.
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| How to Play to Your Audience |
| Is your website easy for Maude to use? Or, for that matter, Tiffany or Raul? Here' s how to sync up your website with your audience.
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| Enterprise Systems Show Results |
| The infamous reputations of enterprise systems (ERP, CRM) is lots of money for little value, yet some companies are realizing value from these IT investments.
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| Tips on a SAP Career |
| The market for SAP professionals is tough, but there are still ways to land jobs and advance your career tells Jon Reed, a career and certification expert.
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| Enterprise-wide Solutions to Drive KM Market |
| The Knowledge Management (KM) market in India is all set for a take off according to a recent F&S report. However, the market may witness a major change, with the current high demand for point-specific solutions changing into demand for enterprise-wide solutions in the coming days.
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| 'ERP Software Helps Increase Competitiveness' |
| Enterprise resource planning (ERP) helps increase returns on investments and productivity, and those who fail to respond to the change on account of new trends in IT and globalisation will be left behind, the joint secretary in the IT department, Pankaj Agarwal, said recently.
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| Indian Tech Trio' s Dollar March |
| They are no more the backstreet boys in the global outsourcing mart. Today, the Indian tech trio of TCS, Infosys and Wipro, with revenues hovering around the $1-billion mark, are standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the top 5 software providers globally and eyeing the booming software services industry.
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| Has CEO Kumar Become a Liability for CA? |
| Software maker Computer Associates International Inc. has seen its sales rise and share price triple in the last year, but the company still carries the baggage of darker times.
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| Xerox: Donning IT Colours |
| Having lost money over the past two years with an accounting scandal in between to add to the negative headlines, the $16 billion printer and copier giant Xerox is now going about reinventing itself in right earnest.
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| IT Spending: The CFOs Strike Back |
| In 2000, the CIO Magazine Tech Poll reported a 22% annual growth rate in IT budgets. The same poll has recorded growth rates below 2% from January 2002 to the present. For the past two years, CIOs have persistently predicted a resurgence in IT spending. But the harsh reality is that chief financial officers now dictate IT spending, and they will throttle IT budgets until there' s hard evidence that IT delivers profits.
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| Putting It All Together Again |
| THIS BEING THE last in a series of columns here about knowledge worker productivity, I thought you might be expecting some answers.
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| Broadband: The Emerging Contours |
| Driven by demand for faster and cheaper Internet access, broadband grew last year by leaps and bounds. But with the growth, the inequities in its global spread have also increased.
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| Sun to Present Chip-design Breakthrough |
| Network computer maker Sun Microsystems researchers will have devised a way to dramatically increase the speed at which semiconductors can talk to each other.
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| Connecting the Dots |
| In the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, it became all too tragically apparent that federal agencies needed to improve the ways they gathered and shared information among themselves.
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| A Digital Future |
| More than two straight years of gloom have made traditional enterprises as well as the most avant-garde of technology companies rethink about their way of doing business
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| Knowledge is Business |
| The Indian CEO is faced with the challenge of a new economic order, where knowledge is the decisive factor.
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| Knowledge is Business |
| The Indian CEO is faced with the challenge of a new economic order, where knowledge is the decisive factor.
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| Squeeze Now, Pay Later |
| IF YOU'RE A CORPORATE CIO, you care enormously about your company's profitability. But how much should you really care about your supplier's profitability? Here's an original idea: If you want to dramatically cut your costs, dramatically cut their profits. This is a buyer' s market. Go for it.
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| It All Adds Up |
| Can you instill knowledge management concepts into the engineering field? MathSoft, the Cambridge, Mass.-based provider of the well-known engineering software called Mathcad, thinks you can and should, and it spreads that news with missionary fervor.
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| Withering Heights |
| We thought companies would want to single out their "high end" knowledge workers for special treatment. We were wrong.
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| Creative Management |
| Intellectual property asset management tools help businesses get a handle on mind-based products.
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| A Survival Kit for the Indian IT Industry |
| Jim Collins, the author of such bestsellers as Built to Last and Good to Great, gives his candid views on various facets of the Indian IT industry, including competitiveness, brand building, and preparing for the future.
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| Power Politics of the CIO |
| The role of the strategically minded CIO's in todays world has to do more than just enhancing their personal careers
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| The Evolution of the IT Leader |
| Five decades of innovation and chaos, politics and intrigue, technology and business have molded the CIO into a unique corporate executive.
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| No More OS-Agnostic |
| Oracle is aggressively advocating the use of Linux in India , especially in the government sector. Says Shekhar Dasgupta, country manager, Oracle Software India , “Let’s say we are no more OS (operating system)-agnostic. We say, go for Linux.”
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| Management Reports: Knowledge Preservation |
| FOR MOST COMPANIES in today' s knowledge economy, the workforce is the supreme driver of performance. So what happens when a keystone worker, or a slew of workers, leaves?
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| KM and CRM: More Than Just the FAQs |
| How one company used a single KM system for customers and employees to bring self-service out of the stone age of frequently asked questions.
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| ERP applications and Web services |
| The ERP market has now stabilised, the picture at the head of the ERP supplier table as regards values of sales has remained virtually unchanged for several years. Faced with dwindling demand for ERP systems in the large enterprise sector, the larger market players are eyeing up medium-sized businesses.
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| ERP and eCommerce |
| E-commerce means IT departments need to build two new channels of access in to ERP systems one for business-to-consumer and business-to-business. These two audiences want two different types of information from your ERP system. Consumers want order status and billing information, and suppliers and partners want just about everything else.
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| ERP and information integration |
| Is ERP still a business necessity it was in the 1990s? Or has the internet invalidated the premise of integrated applications? If companies who create ERP systems are to be believed, the answer is no.
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| An integrated consolidated financials system that can support a company's continued growth |
| In August 2000, Clark Retail Enterprises, Inc. partnered with DigiTerra to undertake an aggressive project-consolidate disparate systems and structures of two companies into one, and implement Lawson Software's General Ledger, GL Report Writer, Accounts Payable and Activity Management modules to provide Clark with the necessary infrastructure to support continued growth.
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| If you thought going in for an ERP package was easy ...think again |
| Today anybody with a managerial sense would not choose a system that wasn't suited to his business processes, thats where you have enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems: to integrate key business and management functions, particularly in the manufacturing, finance and human resource areas.
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| This Could Be the Start of Something Small |
| Cheaper and faster has become the motto of almost every CIO, and that's why the reign of vast enterprisewide application suites is drawing to a close. Taking their place are targeted point applications. Here' s how CIOs are making the switch.
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| Knowledge Management Vendors Go Vertical |
| Tough times in the technology industry have prompted some players in the knowledge management arena to develop solutions or suites aimed at specific verticals. By developing a solution that meets a certain business need within a vertical, the vendors believe they will be able to offer potential buyers a stronger value proposition, and a measurable return on their investment.
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| How Siemens Keeps KM Blooming |
| While knowledge management programs may seem to sprout up out of cracks in the sidewalk, they require cultivation, care and feeding.
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| The Momentum of Knowledge Management |
| What began almost 10 years ago - Knowledge Innovation - has now reached the stage of a critical mass of insight. Dedicated expertise across all disciplines are exploring and defining new management practices fundamental to capitalizing upon the knowledge-based economy.
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| Gathering, organizing, distributing info |
| You know a "word" has gone mainstream when you start hearing it on Headline News. Now, for the TV masses, the word "portal" is applied to all Web applications. In financial reports, you often hear Yahoo.com described as a portal. Well, the word originally referred to user-specific info feeds, sort of a porthole view of the ocean of information on the Web and corporate nets.
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| What are the challenges of KM |
| In an environment where an individual's knowledge is valued and rewarded, establishing a culture that recognizes knowledge and encourages employees to share it is critical. The need to sell the KM concept to employees shouldn't be underestimated since in many cases employees are being asked to surrender their knowledge and experience.
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| KM and Universal access |
| In large global organizations, the infrastructure required to maintain a well-oiled KM system are enormous. Technology support is needed not only to keep all the servers housing information in working order but also to develop databases and web sites.
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| ERP Consolidation |
| A Day in the Life of a Big ERP Rollup Celanese needs to merge seven SAP systems into one—a project expected to take 1,000 days. Here' s the story of one of them.
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| KM' s Next Generation |
| For the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO), a group founded with the express purpose of facilitating networking among its members, knowledge management is a natural fit.
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| Learning Visual Basic - Another Point of View |
| Visual Basic is a lot of fun to play with. Following the examples in the Tutorial you can learn how to create forms (windows and dialogs), populate them with controls (buttons and things), and make things happen when the user clicks a menu item or command button. This all comes fairly quickly, and a user with design experience (a building architect, for instance), will find himself right at home almost immediately. It takes a little longer to write the code behind the menus and controls, but the skills are addressed in the Tutorial and manual, and a new programmer will see a rapid return on a modest time investment.
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| Portals Finally Get Down to Business |
| Portals have been with us since the early days of Internet applications. Now they've come of age, and they' re ready to engage customers and business partners.
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| Hershey' s Bittersweet Lesson |
| HIDING PROBLEMS in your business can land you in jail, but revealing them, even if there's no deliberate malfeasance afoot, can get you in a lot of trouble too. Especially if the problems have some connection with software and aren' t well understood.
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| Knowledge Management: Why and how? |
| Knowledge Management is not just a new buzzword doing rounds in the corporate circle. The `tech concept' is increasingly becoming a must to share, mobilize and leverage knowledge as a tangible organizational asset.
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| Portal Power |
| It' s hard to get it right, but when you do, enterprise portals can help employees do their job better
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| KM and Human Nature |
| Knowledge exchange initiatives require more than just flashy software to effect a change.
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| KM and Human Nature |
| Knowledge exchange initiatives require more than just flashy software to effect a change.
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| KM Works Magic for Ketchum |
| A New York City-based PR firm finds that knowledge is key when it comes to controlling employee turnover.
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| KM Works Magic for Ketchum |
| A New York City-based PR firm finds that knowledge is key when it comes to controlling employee turnover.
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| THE STARS OF ASIA -- ENTREPRENEURS |
| High-tech companies are suffering in India just as they are elsewhere. But no one would guess it by Azim H. Premji' s relaxed demeanor.
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| R&D and Knowledge |
| These days, "knowledge" is a popular term for justifying increased spending on technology tools. But beyond anecdotal explanations, I have seen no hard evidence to demonstrate that spending more money on KM programs, devices and solutions would improve a company' s financial results.
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| Dial K for Knowledge |
| With frantic researchers and frustrated analysts in mind, British Telecom created an online site that easily handles 7,000 customer inquiries a day.
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| Nestlé' s ERP Odyssey |
| Nestlé USA' s costly and protracted struggle with its SAP project is a cautionary tale for any company intent on an enterprisewide implementation.
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| The Knowledge Crunch |
| IT TAKES MORE THAN GOOD FLAVOR AND a heartY crunch to sell the salty snacks churned out at Frito-Lay.
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| KM, IT and Organizational Capital |
| In addition to intellectual capital, knowledge capital and intangible assets, you may soon need to understand how to value and build on the "organizational capital" in your corporation.
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| Prophecies Don' t Serve Knowledge Capital |
| As I have noted before, the proliferation of articles about the value of knowledge is propelled by the stratospheric stock-market valuations of high-technology start-ups. Even though the profits of these dot-coms may be negligible or nonexistent, attributing their stock appreciation to a new financial artifact -- conveniently labeled "intellectual capital" -- enables many analysts to rationalize their otherwise fantastic valuations.
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| How to Value Information Security Risks |
| As I have noted before, most of a corporation' s wealth is reflected not in its accounting records but in the valuations of knowledge capital. For more than 90 percent of U.S. corporations, this asset is greater than the financial assets that they report in audited financial statements.
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| A Growing Body of Knowledge |
| Knowledge management is the Holy Grail of the modern company, much rumored but rarely found. Many software solutions—from document management and data mining to search engines and portals—have claimed to be the key, only to fail.
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| How E-Business Affects Knowledge Capital |
| This year a new topic has occupied magazines, business meetings and executive conferences. Business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce is heralded as the next great opportunity for increasing profits, enhancing productivity and reaping "new economy" gains from the Internet. Desire for this bonanza has produced a flock of start-up companies and purchasing consortia, all professing to have discovered a way to create instant wealth.
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