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PRODUCT SCAN BITAM BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE B itam’s G6 (Generation 6) is an upgrade of the company’s flagship enterprise performance management and business intelligence software that delivers “knowledge intelligence,” a capability said to empower users to strive for more than just greater accuracy and effectiveness in the decision-making process, but also greater understanding of how their decisions influence others and impact the company as a whole. Bitam software lets departments or whole companies create operational dashboards that incorporate business metrics and KPIs for visualizing actual performance against plan with graphs, charts, or custom presentations of the data. Knowledge intelligence provides one-click access for usability and executive value using a combination of dashboard, scorecard, and visualization tools. Bitam reinforced the tight, metadata-layer integration at the platform level across all products, which enables users or IT staff to define variables, dimensions, metrics, and alerts in a single place at one time, and then reuse those defined variables in any report or analysis across the entire Bitam product suite. www.managingautomation.com/Bitam ATTENSITY CORP. ON-DEMAND TEXT ANALYTICS A most popular ERP apps A look at the 10 most compared Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) products on ManagingAutomation.com (1/1/08 - 3/31/08), with information on the degree of ERP functionality that each product supports, according to MA’s directory database: 1. IFS Applications, the vendor’s suite of more than 60 Web-based enterprise software components (89% of MA’s ERP functionality supported) 2. Epicor Vantage, an “out-of-the-box” offering with built-in workflow processes for make-to-order and mixed-mode manufacturers (40% of MA’s ERP functionality supported) 3. Oracle’s E-Business Suite, which contains hundreds of cross-industry capabilities spanning enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and supply chain planning (89% of MA’s ERP functionality supported) 4. Infor ERP SyteLine, a product suited to companies with dynamic configuration modeling needs, allowing multiple sites to operate independently while retaining corporate governance standards (55% of MA’s ERP functionality supported) 5. Epicor Vista, an integrated manufacturing and accounting product for emerging manufacturers, job shops, or make-to-order departments within large enterprises (37% of MA’s ERP functionality supported) 6. Consona’s Intuitive ERP for small and mid-sized manufacturers, which contains integrated enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management functionality (64% of MA’s ERP functionality supported) 7. Plexus Online, a Web-hosted product that connects and manages the entire manufacturing process (47% of MA’s ERP functionality supported) 8. SAP ERP, the successor to SAP R/3, an application that addresses the core and extended business software requirements of mid-sized to large organizations across a range of industries (vendor response to MA ERP functionality is incomplete) 9. IQMS EnterpriseIQ, which combines real-time front office and shop floor data with SCM, accounting, CRM, and more, into one database (29% of MA’s ERP functionality supported) 10. Exact Software’s Macola ES, a mid-market ERP system with native business process management capabilities, including exception management tools used to enable consistent and efficient execution of business policies (48% of MA’s ERP functionality supported) ttensity Corp. has introduced an ondemand version of its Voice of the Customer text analytics software. The Attensity VoC On-Demand offering allows manufacturers to access the VoC text analytics application through a Web browser. The text analytics software lets users extract customer feedback analysis from unstructured text data found in surveys, service and call center notes, e-mails, Web forums, blogs, news articles, and other forms of customer contact. Using the new on-demand offering, users can access analysis of the customer information data using analytic dashboards. VoC On-Demand features a quick-start implementation program that includes query templates that let users prepare unstructured data sets for extraction and analysis. The templates can be customized to fit a company’s individual requirements. VoC On-Demand also includes a NetPromoter Scores feature that allows organizations to gauge and analyze customer loyalty based on satisfaction surveys. www.managingautomation.com/Attensity ROCKWELL AUTOMATION SAFETY SWITCHES ockwell Automation’s new AllenBradley SensaGuard family of RFIDcoded, non-contact switches is said to improve safety in a range of industrial applications while reducing troubleshooting time and machine wiring costs. SensaGuard noncontact safety switches are Category 4/SIL 3rated switches per EN954-1, TÜV functional safety approved to the IEC61508 standard. R ma 46 2008 May http://www.managingautomation.com/Bitam http://ManagingAutomation.com http://www.managingautomation.com/Attensity

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Managing Automation - May 2008 Contents Take 1 Award-Winning Shoe-Maker Otabo Alters Course, Shifts Production to China IBM Partners with Universities for Cloud Computing Getting Noise in Production Under Control Incuity Embarks on a Vertical Market Strategy Foundation Intensifies OPC Standard Testing Mailbox Notes PM Roundtable Cover Story: The Business of Going Green Special Report: Night and Day Delivering on Promises Finding the Right Fit for Wireless Driving RFID Product Scan Advertiser Index Next

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