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security and premium support services. Compiere Professional Edition joins the existing Compiere Standard Edition and Compiere Community Edition. The Standard Edition product includes technical support, product updates, and utilities for managing migrations. The new Professional Edition includes those features as well as premium support and data security. Community Edition can be downloaded free. Pricing for Standard Edition and Professional Edition starts at $25 per user per month. The 3.0 release of all three editions also includes several new features. One of those is a returns management module that can be used to manage return materials authorization and return to vendor processes. The release also includes new financial reporting templates and a Web-based user interface based on Rich Internet Applications technologies. Compiere Professional Edition and other editions based on Compiere 3.0 are available now. www.managingautomation.com/Compiere compression and procedure algorithms that speed response times, as well as other technical improvements that result in processing times that are 30% to 80% faster for many features. www.managingautomation.com/BigMachines ACCU-SORT SYSTEMS INC. reports and graphs. LFE 8.0, the latest release of BigMachines’ on-demand service, also includes multi-byte support for Asian language character sets, a new BigMachines Extension Language (BML), integration with Siebel CRM On Demand and Salesforce.com, and performance improvements. The new BML included in LFE 8.0 allows users to more easily create and manage advanced custom functions to accommodate complex configuration scenarios. The new integration feature allows LFE 8.0 to be automatically synchronized with CRM product line items in Siebel CRM On Demand and Salesforce.com. The performance improvements include optimized page AUTO ID-TO-ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION A NEXGEN ERGONOMICS ccu-Sort Systems Inc.’s new FAST Link software makes it easy to link data from real-time automatic identification devices with enterprise IT systems. Integrating bar-code readers, RFID tag readers, label printers, or other auto ID devices with IT systems typically takes custom-code development. But FAST Link removes that integration barrier by offering data in a way that existing IT resources can access and utilize. The centralized system configuration management built into FAST Link’s Windows-based software eliminates complexity by letting users simply connect a device, configure the network address, ERGONOMIC CAD or companies tasked with gauging the human fit of products and workstations before they are manufactured, software maker NexGen Ergonomics has announced HumanCAD version 1.1, its latest ergonomics design tool. New to the 1.1 release are a more intuitive user interface, a plug-in system, and inverse kinematics, in addition to support for the Mac OS X operating platform. Version 1.1 also sports a new ErgoTools modules featuring the HumanCAD 3D static biomechanical model and interfaces to the University of Michigan 3DSSPP and the 1991 NIOSH lifting equation. Those features are augmented by new camera management capabilities that allow for custom viewpoints, and a new library of hand postures for more accurate design. www.managingautomation.com/NexGen F Streamline the Product Selection Process U se the Product Comparison Tool at ManagingAutomation.com to evaluate and compare software packages and automation tools. Start by pointing your browser to www.ManagingAutomation.com/comparisontool. To view listings by category, mouse over your category of choice within the white box. Follow the subcategories to the right to narrow the field of listings. From the product listings returned, select the ones you’d like to compare side by side. To request more information from a product’s manufacturer, click the icon below the vendor’s name, add comments if needed, and submit. The company will then contact you with additional details. If you prefer to search by specifying the features/functions you need, simply click “Start your custom specification” below the yellow box to get started. BIGMACHINES INC. PRODUCT CONFIGURATION AND QUOTING B igMachines Inc. has upgraded its ondemand product configuration and quoting product with several new features, including a native reporting module that lets users track quote and order data in real time. With the reporting module, users can create, save, and share real-time 45 March 2008 http://www.managingautomation.com/BigMachines http://www.managingautomation.com/Compiere http://www.Salesforce.com http://www.ManagingAutomation.com http://www.ManagingAutomation.com/comparisontool http://www.managingautomation.com/NexGen

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Managing Automation - March 2008 Contents Take 1 Mailbox Mitsubishi, IBM, and ILS Team Up to Make Integration Easy for Automakers Former Agile Exec Takes the Reins at Arena Solutions The Next Phase for 2006’s PM Award Winner Integration Firm Boomi Redesigns for On-Demand Ex-Wonderware Chief Takes Helm at Apprion Notes Cover Story: A Rare Breed Special Report: Where are Control Architectures Heading? Transformation: Back to Reality Integration: Getting Standards Under One Roof Industries: The Quest for the Perfect Order Product Scan Advertiser Index Next

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