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Welcome to the Systems & Integration Channel
There was a time not long ago when the manufacturing and IT organizations in most companies barely gave each other the time of day. IT tended to focus primarily on keeping the finance and other...
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Sterling’s New Home (Sweet Home)
When AT&T bought business-to-business integration services provider Sterling Commerce in 2000, it seemed to make sense. Sterling was a leader among companies offering B2B collaboration managed...
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Enterprise Integration Includes PLM, MES
Ask a manufacturing executive about his or her enterprise integration strategy and you’ll likely hear about the IT department’s focus on synchronizing ERP, CRM, and the supply chain. But, more and...
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Messy Mobile Enterprise
It’s no secret that interest in enterprise mobility, smartphones, and wireless computing platforms is on the rise. This past September, Managing Automation reported that 72% of respondents to an...
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The Fallacy of Turnkey Enterprise Integration
In its ideal state, enterprise integration would be like a Sudoku puzzle: If you placed all the right numbers in right sequence you would have a neat, logical, unique little box. Sudoku, however, has...
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On-Demand Integration
Manufacturers won’t make the move to cloud computing until they can easily integrate off-site edge applications with on-premise legacy data. Now, it appears there are some easier ways to do just that....
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A New Strategy for Managing IT
Most companies subscribe to the mindset that forecasting the IT portfolio is impossible, given M&A activity and unknown future business needs. But there’s an app for that, and it factors in...
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Is SaaS Sabotaging Enterprise Integration Efforts?
Hosted applications remove the burden of buying and maintaining hardware, but off-premise systems could cause data integration problems that require serious consideration in any purchase decision....
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The Big Data Dilemma
As more unstructured data circulates through an organization, how to integrate it into the enterprise to create more value should be at the top of a CIOs to-do list. Some days it feels like I’m riding...
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Looking for Enterprise Apps? Try Your Automation Supplier
As manufacturers request more ways to increase operational visibility and productivity, automation providers are moving beyond their controller roots to become enterprise integration experts and savvy...
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