Product Life Cycles

WHITE PAPER: Oracle helps organizations achieve their goals with best of breed products that integrate with Oracle and non-Oracle solutions, such as SAP. Download this whitepaper to learn more.

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 | Published: 05 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: For manufacturers today, achieving strategic goals requires not only intimately understanding technology and markets but also overcoming higher hurdles that have been exacerbated by trends toward globalization and outsourcing. Read on to learn more about how your company can achieve product and service leadership.

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 | Published: 21 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: The need to keep product and service offerings fresh is not a new concept in business today, but the new approach is involving a network of business partners and even customers in their quest to innovate. This process is called "continuous product and service innovation."

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 | Published: 21 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Returns management is an area that poses incredible challenges and opportunities for businesses. This paper will act as a guide to help you implement more effective returns management. Read on to learn more about the three pillars of effective returns management and how they can be used to drive significant costs out of returns lifecycle.

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 | Published: 14 Oct 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: 02 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Business interest in environmental footprinting stemmed originally from an understanding of supply chain vulnerabilities and complexities, and this remains an important driver. However, with growing public concern over environmental issues, environmental footprinting has grown in importance to many businesses.

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Learn efficient ways to handle excess and obsolete inventory. Excess at-risk inventory ultimately impacts a company's bottom line. Tactics used to resolve inventory issues can be costly. Using private, on-line, competitive auction portals provides one way to manage excess inventory with low-overhead execution.

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 | Published: 07 Aug 2009

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: 24 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper will focus on the acquisition of Business Objects by SAP and the pain points caused by the uncertainty of SAP's product roadmaps and the difficulty of integrating their products. It will then outline some effective business intelligence strategies.

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 | Published: 08 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: A recent worldwide survey listed business intelligence (BI) as CIOs' number one priority for 2008, the third consecutive year BI topped the list. From a business user perspective, this translates into more interactive and pervasive BI, both creating a richer user experience and reaching every place where work is done.

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 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: 13 May 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: 13 May 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: 19 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Extending ERP is the focus of this document, which encompasses utilizing more functionality, extending the footprint beyond the core ERP functionality and making decisions between ERP vendors and pure play or "Best of Breed" solutions.

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 19 Sep 2008