Product Life Cycles

WHITE PAPER: Service productization can be a huge benefit to service organizations, as it offers predictable outcomes that have previously been inconsistent.  Check out this informative resource to examine the trend in productizing services, discover a framework that could help your business benefit, and learn how to avoid productization pitfalls.

Posted: 25 Mar 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how your company can streamline order fulfillment, billing, credit management, and more as well as reduce your order processing time.

Posted: 09 Nov 2012 | Published: 09 Nov 2012

WHITE PAPER: Frost & Sullivan Analysts discuss Vision of the Future of Manufacturing and Production with best practice case study on how SAP delivers Integrated Enterprise Management.

Posted: 21 Aug 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this paper, discover how IFS Applications suite can collect data from business activities, like project data, supply chain management data, and service management and project life-cycle data, and funnel it into the Eco Footprint Management module to make documentation easy.

Posted: 06 Oct 2011 | Published: 06 Oct 2011

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 this whitepaper, we will address the various drivers for the green supply chain trend, share important considerations for satisfying a green supply chain initiative of a customer or initiating your own green supply chain initiative, and discuss the role of enterprise software like ERP in keeping pace with this industry trend.

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 | Published: 08 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: If you're involved in the planning and development of products, software applications or systems, this report is for you. Learn the results of a recent industry survey - get insight on the latest trends, challenges and solutions and learn what development teams are doing to successfully plan and develop new products in a customer-driven economy.

Posted: 07 Jun 2013 | Published: 18 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software can be one of the best tools in your IT arsenal, but only if you have a system in place that is right for your particular business needs. Read this white paper to learn how a fully integrated ERP suite can help ease your product launch by giving you visibility into all of critical business data.

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 | Published: 21 Jun 2012

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

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper and learn some of the datacentre licence management challenges, including heterogeneous and multi-platform environments, complex licence models, virtualization and more.

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 | Published: 09 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to receive answers about how to address quality within product line engineering frameworks.

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 | Published: 30 Mar 2011

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: Many manufacturers are already using Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) technology to design products, test them and automate their production. This same technology can be integrated with Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) solutions, like IBM’s Maximo® Asset Management to manage manufacturing assets involved in production.

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 | Published: 07 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Project-based business practices are now being embraced and applied to a far greater spectrum of business ranging from manufacturing to service industries. Read on to learn the trends driving this change, what it means for industrial companies, and how PBS, a new type of ERP, can allow executives to intelligently navigate these uncertain waters.

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 | Published: 22 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses common GPD challenges and corresponding solution methodologies in the context of PTC technology-enabled best practices derived from numerous customer engagements worldwide.  Read this paper to learn the foundation your company needs to make intelligent, informed decisions regarding initiatives toward global product development.

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 | Published: 04 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides CIMdata’s perspective on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis, including its motivation for use, value and future. It also describes Mentor Graphics’ FloEFD CFD analysis solution that is designed to provide product designers and engineers with direct access to CFD techniques directly in their design (CAD) environment.

Posted: 10 Jun 2010 | Published: 10 Jun 2010

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: 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 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: Maintaining strong business performance and customer loyalty require continual vigilance and assessment and performance tools. Read this paper to learn five steps to improve business performance and increase customer loyalty.

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 | Published: 04 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: The product portfolio decisions you make today will determine whether your company is relevant tomorrow. To increase the chances of marketing a successful product, organizations must deliver products and services to the consumers they value the most, and they must provide those deliverables when their consumers want them. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 | Published: 23 Jun 2009

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 explores requirements engineering and its groundbreaking role in product development and engineering for the industrial segment. It discusses the best practices and benefits of requirements engineering, and how automotive manufacturers can overcome today's quality and cost challenges using those best practices.

Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 31 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how assessment, alignment, achievability, accessibility, agility and accountability, the six key concepts of value-driven product management, can be applied to create a repeatable process for developing successful products.

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 | Published: 01 Jan 2009