Product Cycles

WHITE PAPER: Discover how companies taking a strategic approach toward safer and greener products can successfully meet the challenges of achieving effective compliance, safety, and product stewardship in a complex regulatory world, while at the same time gaining a competitive business advantage for the future.

Posted: 15 Mar 2010 | Published: 15 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: In today’s global economy, businesses are finding that traditional strategies for growth are no longer sufficient. This paper discusses challenges and opportunities related to business network transformation, best practices for leveraging a business process platform, the benefits of partnering with a Business-Ready Network and more.

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 | Published: 18 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines asset tracking with RFID technology by providing a brief overview of technologies available, an explanation of how passive UHF RFID can be used for asset tracking, an exploration of who's using RFID, a discussion on deciding what to track and making a business case for RFID, and a guide to choosing the right RFID partners.

Posted: 04 Mar 2009 | Published: 04 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: This document discusses the challenges in implementing DOORS in a rapidly evolving environment and the clear payoffs from using DOORS to integrate across diverse disciplines and to boost the collaborative effort.

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 | Published: 25 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: Leading-edge manufacturers are discovering that they can improve production efficiencies and manage MRO expenditures by integrating their Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) with Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) systems.

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This IDC White Paper addresses a key challenge for most organizations - the need to improve innovation.  Three very different global corporations are compared in order to explore methods of managing new ideas, projects, resources, and marketing innovation. Read on to learn what all three companies are doing to manage innovation.

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: IBM Rational offers a life-cycle approach to managing quality through quality management solutions, test integration, integrated requirements management and lean collaborative development to help you achieve greater consistency, efficiency and predictability in your delivered solutions. Download this paper to learn more. 

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 | Published: 23 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Requirements engineering is about more than just analyzing documenting requirements. It is an important and multifaceted part of systems engineering that broadens the product development process. Companies that successfully introduce a new requirements engineering process don't just change their process and technology; they change their thinking.

Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 31 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of RFID technology and capabilities, describes the common frequencies and technologies used in business applications, identifies major standards, and introduces ways to take advantage of RFID to improve convenience, accuracy, safety and security.

Posted: 04 Mar 2009 | Published: 04 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about a new principle for manufacturers – corporate social responsibility (CSR). Learn how you can look to IT and software strategies to, not only exemplify good citizenship, but to achieve tangible financial benefits throughout your business and supply chain.

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 | Published: 21 Jun 2012