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Power BI Desktop integrates proven Microsoft technologies the powerful Query engine, data modeling, and visualizations. All sorts of different data sources, then combine and shape them in ways that facilitate making interesting, in Power BI online Training.
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Power BI Dashboard in an hour with Various Slides.
Target Audience:
Useful for Develops and DBA those who want to know what is Power BI and How we can utilize various features.
Also session will be useful for anyone who wants learn Power BI from basic.
Abstract:
In this session, We will walk through various features of Power BI, How Power BI can transform your company’s data into rich visuals and Easy yet powerful Analytics solutions for your whole organization.
At end of session with following Power BI Dashboard example
sp_Blitz in Dashboard
SQL Server Info Dashboard
Twitter Dashboard
World Dashboard
Most important takeaways from session –
You will be learning basics of Power BI with the additional perk of analyzing sp_Blitz in Power BI.
Various features of Power BI making you from ZERO to HERO
After this session, you will be able to analyze data into Power BI
Infosys Limited is an Indian multinational corporation that provides business consulting, information technology and outsourcing services. It has its headquarters in Bengaluru, India. Infosys is the second-largest Indian IT firm by 2016 revenues.
Microsoft Power BI helps you stay up to date with the information that matters to you. With Power BI, dashboards help you keep a finger on the pulse of your business. Your dashboards display tiles that you can click to open reports for exploring further. Connect to multiple data sets to bring all of the relevant data together in one place.
Power bi (1)Power BI Online Training Hyderabad | power bi online training ben...Big IT Trainings
Power BI Desktop integrates proven Microsoft technologies the powerful Query engine, data modeling, and visualizations. All sorts of different data sources, then combine and shape them in ways that facilitate making interesting, in Power BI online Training.
Groupby -Power bi dashboard in hour by vishal pawar-Presentation Vishal Pawar
Power BI Dashboard in an hour with Various Slides.
Target Audience:
Useful for Develops and DBA those who want to know what is Power BI and How we can utilize various features.
Also session will be useful for anyone who wants learn Power BI from basic.
Abstract:
In this session, We will walk through various features of Power BI, How Power BI can transform your company’s data into rich visuals and Easy yet powerful Analytics solutions for your whole organization.
At end of session with following Power BI Dashboard example
sp_Blitz in Dashboard
SQL Server Info Dashboard
Twitter Dashboard
World Dashboard
Most important takeaways from session –
You will be learning basics of Power BI with the additional perk of analyzing sp_Blitz in Power BI.
Various features of Power BI making you from ZERO to HERO
After this session, you will be able to analyze data into Power BI
Infosys Limited is an Indian multinational corporation that provides business consulting, information technology and outsourcing services. It has its headquarters in Bengaluru, India. Infosys is the second-largest Indian IT firm by 2016 revenues.
Microsoft Power BI helps you stay up to date with the information that matters to you. With Power BI, dashboards help you keep a finger on the pulse of your business. Your dashboards display tiles that you can click to open reports for exploring further. Connect to multiple data sets to bring all of the relevant data together in one place.
Power BI Online Training hyderabad | Power BI online Course Cynix Technologies
The most recent update of Power BI enables clients to bookmark their most-utilized Power BI report and dashboard bundles.Get more information at Power BI online Training
Power BI vs Tableau: Which is Better Business ToolStat Analytica
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The new SAP Cloud Platform Integration L2 Deck provides the product overview on SAP Cloud Platform Integration services and wide variety of customer use cases.
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QlikView is considered to be the most flexible business intelligence platforms for data visualization that business analysts and business intelligence (BI) developers can use to create advanced BI apps. It is not only fast to deploy and easy to learn, but also improves data vizualization practices. Several companies across the globe today like banking conglomerate, e-commerce, consulting or manufacturing companies have been using Qlikview and benefiting from it. It is a single application platform for all BI needs which is helping companies across the globe with unprecedented business insights.
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Power BI Overview, Deployment and GovernanceJames Serra
Deploying Power BI in a large enterprise is a complex task, and one that requires a lot of thought and planning. The purpose of this presentation is to help you make your Power BI deployment a success. After a quick Power BI overview, I’ll discuss deployment strategies, common usage scenarios, how to store and refresh data, prototyping options, how to share externally, and then finish with how to administer and secure Power BI. I’ll outline considerations and best practices for achieving an optimal, well-performing, enterprise level Power BI deployment.
Power BI: Introduction with a use case and solutionAlvina Verghis
This PPT gives a brief introduction to the Power BI software. It gives the brief intro of the software with a use case of how Power BI is used in Heathrow Airport for ease of functions
Power BI Online Training hyderabad | Power BI online Course Cynix Technologies
The most recent update of Power BI enables clients to bookmark their most-utilized Power BI report and dashboard bundles.Get more information at Power BI online Training
Power BI vs Tableau: Which is Better Business ToolStat Analytica
Still Struggling between the Power BI and Tableau? Here is the in-depth difference between Power BI vs Tableau. With the help of this PDF you will be quite confident to choose the better one as per your requirements.
The new SAP Cloud Platform Integration L2 Deck provides the product overview on SAP Cloud Platform Integration services and wide variety of customer use cases.
Explain about power BI Overview from Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service, Power BI Report Server and Power BI Mobile that consume all BI Data from Dataset and datamodel
QlikView is considered to be the most flexible business intelligence platforms for data visualization that business analysts and business intelligence (BI) developers can use to create advanced BI apps. It is not only fast to deploy and easy to learn, but also improves data vizualization practices. Several companies across the globe today like banking conglomerate, e-commerce, consulting or manufacturing companies have been using Qlikview and benefiting from it. It is a single application platform for all BI needs which is helping companies across the globe with unprecedented business insights.
Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd. Is A Reputed Name In Financial Services With Group Companies Providing Services Such As Private Wealth Management, Retail Broking And Distribution, Institutional Broking, Asset Management, Investment Banking, Private Equity, Commodity Broking, Currency Broking, Principal Strategies & Home Finance.
Power BI Overview, Deployment and GovernanceJames Serra
Deploying Power BI in a large enterprise is a complex task, and one that requires a lot of thought and planning. The purpose of this presentation is to help you make your Power BI deployment a success. After a quick Power BI overview, I’ll discuss deployment strategies, common usage scenarios, how to store and refresh data, prototyping options, how to share externally, and then finish with how to administer and secure Power BI. I’ll outline considerations and best practices for achieving an optimal, well-performing, enterprise level Power BI deployment.
Power BI: Introduction with a use case and solutionAlvina Verghis
This PPT gives a brief introduction to the Power BI software. It gives the brief intro of the software with a use case of how Power BI is used in Heathrow Airport for ease of functions
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There is predominant gap in an investor's expectations and the actual characteristic of a product's value life cycle. In the absence of an intervention, product value declines over time. New and adjacent products have to accommodate the slack which results in a potential fall in market share as the product becomes less competitive. HCL's propositions such as tear down analysis and BOM optimization, extending product life cycle & end-of-life support and GTM for emerging markets are tailored to help you perform better value engineering.
PLM is about “managing products across their lifecycles”, and it applies to any company with a product. It applies to all sizes of companies, ranging from large multinational corporations to small and medium enterprises. It’s applied across a
wide range of industrial sectors including aerospace, apparel, automotive, beverage,consumer goods, construction equipment, defence, electrical engineering, electronics, food, life sciences, machinery, machine tool, mechanical engineering,medical equipment, pharmaceutical, plastics, shipbuilding, shoe, software, transportation and turbine.
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Value stream mapping- lean manufacturing toolbhanutomar
In this competitive world, manufacturing companies has to look at redefining and redesigning of their production systems to attack the competitiveness demanded by the markets. Therefore it is essential to have tools which help in redesign manufacturing process. In this scenario, developed and presented value stream mapping tool as a practical method for redesigning the production systems .The main aim of lean manufacturing is to reduce waste, time to delivery, produce the quality products with economical and efficient manner with response to customer demand. The organizations which are practicing lean manufacturing have quality & cost advantages compared to the organizations that are still using traditional production.
The VSM process is straight forward and simple. It always starts at customer demand and work back through documenting all the process and collecting data which is required for manufacturing of a product. It shows the map “Value stream” containing all the data such as work in process, cycle time, lead time, number of equipment’s, operators. Documenting relationship between the controls used to manage the manufacturing process is very important in VSM. Unlike other mapping techniques that only map product flow, VSM documents material & information flow.
Infosys commissioned an independent market research company, Vanson Bourne, to investigate the use of digital technologies and key trends in nine industries. We surveyed 1,000 senior decision makers from business and IT, from large organizations with 1,000 employees or more and annual revenue of at least US$500 million.
The report aims to discover:
a) the surging tide of digital technology adoption in organizations – what is used and where?
b) the promised land of digital technology use, and the hurdles organizations face to get there
c) the biggest disruptive digital trends within the next three years and why organizations see them as vital to future success
The summary here presents the survey results and highlights the digital outlook that will define the healthcare industry strategy over the next three years.
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Just like a periodic health check-up is important to assess your overall well-being, a detailed reexamination of the enterprise IT landscape is paramount. We take a look at the various ways an enterprise needs to revamp its mainframe and sharpen its functionalities to stay ahead of the game. While APIs aid you in providing superior customer service, migrating to the cloud provides you with scalability and resilience. These and many more sub-offerings from Infosys aid your organization in staying agile and equipped to leverage the latest technologies to cater to the ever-changing market. Learn more.
Human Amplification In The Enterprise - Resources and UtilitiesInfosys
Infosys commissioned a study to develop a research methodology and get insights into the current nature of digital transformation enterprises undergo, across industry verticals. This deck provides industry specific insights from Resources and Utilities.
The study sought to understand a) the specific drivers of digital transformation for enterprises, b) the various facets of this transformation, c) expected and ensuing outcomes, and d) the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Human Amplification In The Enterprise - Telecom and CommunicationInfosys
Infosys commissioned a study to develop a research methodology and get insights into the current nature of digital transformation enterprises undergo, across industry verticals. This deck provides industry specific insights from Telecom and Communication.
The study sought to understand a) the specific drivers of digital transformation for enterprises, b) the various facets of this transformation, c) expected and ensuing outcomes, and d) the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Human Amplification In The Enterprise - Retail and CPGInfosys
Infosys commissioned a study to develop a research methodology and get insights into the current nature of digital transformation enterprises undergo, across industry verticals. This deck provides industry specific insights from Retail and CPG.
The study sought to understand a) the specific drivers of digital transformation for enterprises, b) the various facets of this transformation, c) expected and ensuing outcomes, and d) the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Human Amplification In The Enterprise - Manufacturing and High-techInfosys
Infosys commissioned a study to develop a research methodology and get insights into the current nature of digital transformation enterprises undergo, across industry verticals. This deck provides industry specific insights from Manufacturing and High-tech.
The study sought to understand a) the specific drivers of digital transformation for enterprises, b) the various facets of this transformation, c) expected and ensuing outcomes, and d) the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Human amplification in the enterprise - Automation. Innovation. Learning.Infosys
Infosys commissioned a study to develop a research methodology and get insights into the current nature of digital transformation enterprises undergo, across industry verticals. This deck provides industry specific insights from Automation, Innovation and learning.
The study sought to understand a) the specific drivers of digital transformation for enterprises, b) the various facets of this transformation, c) expected and ensuing outcomes, and d) the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Human Amplification In The Enterprise - Healthcare and Life SciencesInfosys
Infosys commissioned a study to develop a research methodology and get insights into the current nature of digital transformation enterprises undergo, across industry verticals. This deck provides industry specific insights from Healthcare and Life Sciences
The study sought to understand a) the specific drivers of digital transformation for enterprises, b) the various facets of this transformation, c) expected and ensuing outcomes, and d) the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Human Amplification In The Enterprise - Banking and InsuranceInfosys
Infosys commissioned a study to develop a research methodology and get insights into the current nature of digital transformation enterprises undergo, across industry verticals. This deck provides industry specific insights from Banking and Insurance.
The study sought to understand a) the specific drivers of digital transformation for enterprises, b) the various facets of this transformation, c) expected and ensuing outcomes, and d) the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Take a glimpse at few of our efforts that we made to demonstrate that efficient technologies can easily be deployed in large scale in a cost effective manner to make our campus environmental friendly on this World Environment Day 2015
The Information Services industry is in the eye of the digital storm. Two major contenders within this industry - traditional and new age media companies must adopt strategies for the significant mass of millennials and demanding consumers.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
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Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
When stars align: studies in data quality, knowledge graphs, and machine lear...
Infosys - Integrated Product Management Solutions | Process
1. Integrated Product Management
Single view of the Product for higher productivity and
profitability
Sourabh Deshmukh and Jagmeet Singh
“The complete flow of information about each product over its lifetime
develops into a parallel supply chain: an information supply chain (ISC) that
describes its physical counterpart in precise detail. The ISC is the source
not only of a company’s leverage within its industry, but of future products,
services, and profitability. A company’s survival depends on how it manages
the information in this supply chain.”
Reproduced from Optimize: “The Metamorphosis of Information,”
by Larry Downes, June 2002.
Jan 2005
2. The challenges facing today’s high-tech manufacturer
Emerging and converging technologies continually redefine the high-tech playing field. New-product proliferation and
shrinking product life-cycles have intensified competition, while making fast-expanding product portfolios more difficult to
manage. Distribution channels have multiplied and profit margins have dwindled.
High-tech has become a buyer’s market. Today’s consumers have unprecedented access to pricing information. The build-to-
order (BTO) business model gives them new levels of control of the purchase process. And, there is rampant growth in the
number of competitors in most sectors.
For the vigilant manufacturer, the time has come to work smarter, not harder. As more and more supply chain functions are
supported by a growing number of stand-alone applications, competitive advantage goes to organizations which:
• Establish a robust system to manage and support a collaborative approach throughout a product’s lifecycle – by the
integration of information and processes across designers, manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, sales forces and even
customers.
• Making information from disparate, function-specific applications accessible so that anyone involved in a product’s
lifecycle can productively use it.
• Provide a comprehensive and holistic view of the product throughout its lifecycle so that any relevant person can look
for opportunities to increase competitive advantage.
Infosys believes a manufacturer can implement just such an information-sharing and process-optimization system to enhance
both productivity and profitability, through Integrated Product Management (IPM)
What makes product lifecycle management so complex – and so vital?
As you can see in Figure 1, the lion’s share of a product’s lifecycle costs – about 75% – is determined in the initial design
phase. Thus, the decisions during conceptualization do more to determine your profit opportunities than at any other point
in the lifecycle.
Product Lifecycle Cost Determination
100 95 Lifecycle cost
determination
85
80 75
60
% Costs
40
20
Cost reduction
opportunities
Conceptualize Design Manufacture Support
Product Lifecycle Phases
Figure 1: Lifecycle cost determination1
“The Value of PLM and How to Get It” by Kevin O’Marah and Michael Burkett, AMR Research - April, 2003
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3. But do these designers have all the relevant information to formulate their design decisions? Do they have production
information to help them assess the cost-effectiveness and reusability of their material choices? Do they have the feedback
from tech-support about the design flaw that gave users the most trouble? Do they have input from the customer relationship
management (CRM) about the features that the most profitable customers are asking for? Do they have the parts-availability
forecasts from suppliers that could influence the time-to-market? Do they have access to all the latest regulatory-compliance
mandates from Legal?
These are just a few of the myriad data-points that can influence the productivity of the design process. And that’s just the
very first steps of the product lifecycle. A typical high-tech product goes through the following major stages in its lifecycle:
• Introduction, or New Product Development (NPD)
• Modification, including upgrades, or Product Sustenance (PS)
• Obsolescence, or Product Phase-out (PPO)
Then there are sub-stages. For instance, NPD involves design, prototyping, modification, supplier ramp-up, and
manufacturing ramp-up. And each of these sub-stage functions is supported by its own discrete applications, e.g., the
Design group uses computer-aided design (CAD) and product data management (PDM); the manufacturing department uses
computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) and manufacturing execution systems (MES); the supplier ramp-up employs materials
requirements planning (MRP).
There was a time when the product lifecycle was so elongated, that all these sub-stages occurred, one after another, in very
linear fashion. There was enough time for the designers to create their vision of the new product in an information vacuum,
and then go through several iterations as their first prototype went through analysis and assessment further along the line.
But that time is past. Now, the product lifecycle is compressed into a fraction of the time it once occupied. A product can
move “from cradle to grave” in less time than it once took to simply get the product to market in the first place (Figure 2).
Product Lifecycle Evolution
NPD PS PPO
Past
Design Proto- Modify Supplier Mfg Mass manufacturing End-of-life support
type Ramp ramp (3-10 years) (3-7 years)
NPD PS PPO
Design Mass End-of-
Present
Proto-type
Mfg life
(1-2 support
Modify years)
(1-2
Supplier years)
Ramp NPD = New Product Development
PS = Product Sustenance
Mfr ramp
PPO = Product Phase-Out
Figure 2: Product lifecycle evolution2
Adapted from: “Solectron – The world’s premier facilitator” - Dr Ko Nishimura, MIT, 2001
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4. In these foreshortened product lifecycles, functions overlap by necessity. Design, prototyping, modification and supplier
ramp-up are all happening simultaneously. This telescoping of functions makes it imperative that processes – and corporate
cultures – be adapted to create a collaborative, real-time-communications environment. With the increased time-to-market
urgency, companies can not afford the information-impoverished false steps that lead to multiple iterations of the design
process.
The need for fully integrated product management is exacerbated by a range of factors that have increased the complexity of
the marketplace:
• Product-line extensions – Increasingly tighter market segmentation has led to narrower differentiations in product
models in order to offer “exactly” the right product for a specific target market. A product line that had only 3 models
ten years ago, may have 17 models today.
• ATO/BTO business models – These strategies may provide competitive advantage at the point of sale, but they also
lead to the explosive growth of product configurations.
• Supply-chain evolution – At the same time that the globalization of manufacturing has added cultural, language and
distance complications to communications, the compressed product lifecycle has added performance and productivity
pressures throughout the supply chain.
• Product complexity – Emerging technologies, the bells-and-whistles approach to product differentiation, and low-
contact distribution channels like the Web have led to a greater need for after-sales support and more customer
feedback on design flaws.
• Accelerated obsolescence – Product proliferation at the front-end of the product lifecycle leads to quicker turnover at
the back-end, which increases the end-of-life (EOL) burdens of product/parts recycling and hazardous waste disposal.
Adjusting to all these complicating factors has led to a surge of interest in product lifecycle management (PLM) to increase
efficiencies, reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction. But do the conventional approaches to PLM deliver everything
today’s high-tech manufacturers need to optimize their competitive advantage?
The inadequacies of conventional PLM
In the conventional approach to product management, a manufacturing company tends to integrate the upstream
applications that are largely involved with the product design function – e.g., PDM, CAD, CAM – with enterprise-wide
applications such as enterprise resource planning (ERP). The reasoning behind such narrow initiatives is obvious: there is
significant pre-existing investment in these design applications, so the first move is always to leverage that investment by
optimizing its performance. This makes sense on another level: 75% of the cost-determination occurs in the design phase. So
improved efficiencies in the design function bring an immediate return on investment (ROI).
But such an approach has several limitations:
• Too design-centric – For one thing, there is still another 25% of cost-determination that happens outside the design
function. But more important, addressing issues in the design process as a standalone function ignores all the
efficiencies that come from cross-function information-sharing. A more efficient design process does not optimize ROI
if the design team doesn’t realize that a particular design modification can address all the consumer feedback and get
product to market a year earlier than a total redesign. And it totally ignores the potentially critical bottom-line issues
of returns management and EOL support and recycling in an accelerated lifecycle.
• Too application-centric – Business has become so application-dependent that conventional approaches often think the
solution lies in simply making the applications work better. In product lifecycle management, however, the greatest
ROI is not in improving the efficiency of the applications, but in improving the efficiency of the product lifecycle as
a whole. Another deficiency is that the conventional approach may add new applications. But adding applications
without fully integrating them with legacy applications, and the processes they support, merely exacerbates the
problem.
• Too function-centric – A conventional approach that aims to improve functional operation ignores the less obvious,
but no less critical, value to be gained by enhancing processes and data-sharing across functions and partners. Even
the most efficient design team is going to cost you money if they are working without full and interactive input with
other players in the product lifecycle, e.g., materials procurement, marketing, customer support, manufacturing.
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5. What makes the Infosys approach to IPM different?
Infosys has found that a truly integrated product management solution must fully address far more than functional
improvements in the design phase. The best IPM solutions integrate the applications, the processes, and the people – across
functions and throughout the product lifecycle.
A fully integrated IPM solution is not merely a good idea – it is a highly profitable approach. Profit potential from an IPM
solution that integrates processes as well as applications is far greater that that of improving point applications alone. AMR
research reports that “Best practice in functional silos is good, but not enough – 90% better new product development and
launch is possible”. Further it states “Cost savings count, but tripling profits depends on raising the bar across processes”. 3
Figure 11: Financial gains of PLM point applications and full process solution
Define Design Promote Supply
Costs Profit
Percentage of Total Revenue Today:
3.8% 5.0% 14.4% 64.6% 10.3%
Point Improvement Potential:
10% 30% 10% 5% +63.6%
Process Improvement Potential:
30% 60% 30% 15% +176.3%
Define = 30% of R&D + 10% of SGA; Design = 70% of R&D; Promote = 90% of SGA; Supply = 100% of COGS.
Profit = Revenue – (R&D + SGS + COGS) – 2% is missing due to other and nonrecurring expenses reported in this sample.
Benchmark are averages of 17 F100 companies that report R&D, Source: Fortune Magazine, Edgar Online Performance
improvement estimates based on proven results for point applications live in field implementations. Process multipliers are
AMR Research estimates based on similar supply chain process improvements
Source: AMR Research, 2004
Infosys also recognizes that the most effective IPM solutions blend integrated information-sharing with integrated operations.
This means implementing a data repository and knowledge engine that enable and support such cross-functional,
information-driven activities as:
• Data extraction and analysis to allow customer input, across all channels and departments, to help target design flaws
and the development of desired features more accurately.
• Decision support to make more effective, and ultimately cost-efficient, decisions on whether to develop an entirely
new product or simply go with a modification.
• Business analytics to provide the metrics to optimize performance and efficiencies.
• GAP analysis to facilitate NPD programs by providing more dependable assessments of the relationship between
product requirements and limitations.
• Workflow enhancements that model business process, rather than design processes, in order to achieve far greater
efficiencies through cross-function collaboration.
• Knowledge reuse to make all the cradle-to-grave activities along the lifecycle more efficient by avoiding “reinventing
the wheel.”
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6. Consider the new customer loyalty strategies that such an integrated approach could bring to Integrated Service Management
(ISM), for instance. If you are an OEM who has sold an extended service contract to a customer, you could automatically
monitor the customer’s experience with your product over the life of their service contract. If there are wear-and-tear
tendencies for that product that haven’t occurred, you could send out a notice just before their contract expired, suggesting
they take the product to an authorized service center so that expected repairs and replacements could be made before the
product was out-of-warranty. Then you could see if those repairs were done and offer one of a range of service-contract
renewal promotions, depending on what your business analytics suggest will be most profitable in terms of both generating
immediate revenue and building customer loyalty.
Another advantage with your ISM program: imagine there is an equipment failure that starts cropping up with that product.
With an integrated IPM solution, you would know what circumstances are most likely to produce that problem and send
out a customer bulletin. You would also know the quantity of that product had been sold, what percentage of them were
experiencing the problem, and if there were some regions of the world that showed a higher rate of failure than others – all of
which information would help you more accurately manage your spare parts inventories more accurately in order to be both
most cost-effective and more responsive to your customers.
When you have full integration across functions, applications and processes, information flows seamlessly across the supply
and demand chains – from customers to suppliers to product designers. Operations are coordinated for greater efficiency
across functions – sales & support, marketing, distribution, engineering & design, sourcing. And, providing a single view of
the product to everyone involved with it provides more opportunity for profitability throughout the product’s lifecycle.
The Infosys approach: The process perspective
To integrate processes, it is necessary to adopt a process perspective to the product lifecycle. And the first realization that
comes from a process perspective is that, in a compressed product lifecycle, processes are no more linear than functions are
anymore.
For example, let’s say you manufacture a handicam that has problem with a switch. With a typical linear process, customer
service would fill out a problem report, which would go to a separate analysis group for triage, who would then send their
analysis on to product manufacturing, which would do a root cause analysis: is it a design problem or a materials problem?
They would then report their findings the appropriate department, which would address that specific problem. While this
approach may ultimately solve the problem, it fails on at least two counts: it is time-consuming and it addresses only the
specific problem reported.
If an IPM system were in place, however, the process would go more like this: The problem would be reported on the intranet
so that people involved with the product could look at the problem description and start thinking about solutions from
their unique perspective. Sourcing might check with their suppliers to find out if they had reports from other manufacturers
about the problem and what the most satisfactory solution had been. Data analysts could do a more sophisticated analysis
of the customer feedback to see whether the problem was in the mechanics of the switch, the ergonomics of the switch, the
interaction of the switch with other mechanisms, or perhaps even in expectations of the consumer. NPD designers might look
at the situation as an opportunity rather than problem: if the switch needs to be redesigned, can we also add some emerging
functionality to add value?
Findings and recommendations from all interested parties could be shared across departments, e.g. if data analysts discover
an issue with the mechanics of the switch, that could be simultaneously reported to design, procurement and manufacturing
for their respective recommendations on solutions. Instead of a single solution being generated by a single function at the end
of a long series of handoffs, several solutions might be developed from several sources in a shorter period of time. The result
could be that the problem will be fixed…and money saved through using a different supplier…and competitive advantage
gained by a installing a just-on-the-market, more user-friendly switch…and customer loyalty increased by a showing quick
response with an unexpectedly elegant solution.
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7. A process perspective is characterized by three traits:
• Multi-point feedback – In the case of the handicam, the service department would report the reason for product
returns, but there could also be long-form anecdotal data generated on the manufacturer’s Web site or 3rd-party
customer forums.
• Collaborative communication – Communication that occurs across functions, e.g., design, production, customer
service, generates a more comprehensive appreciation of the problem, resulting in solutions derived from a richer
perspective of both the challenge and the opportunity in the situation.
• Multi-use feedback – A customer complaint no longer means only that there is a problem to be solved. Every customer
complaint is as much about an opportunity as a problem. What started as a request for a repair could turn into an idea
for a new product. When a customer specifies a function or part that doesn’t exist today, it is a prime opportunity for
you to gain competitive advantage by being first-to-market with a desirable feature.
By integrating processes into a PLM solution, Infosys believes a manufacturer gives itself the ability to work more efficiently as
well as more productively.
The Infosys approach: The application perspective
Since applications are the means through which people do their work, productive collaborative processes cannot be
implemented and encouraged until applications are integrated. Once applications are integrated, however, the benefits can
accrue for collaborations happening both within an organization and across partnerships.
Collaboration within an organization
Collaborations within a function, such as collaborative design, already occur to some degree with conventional product
management solutions. With IPM, however, you pave the way for collaboration to occur among a wider variety of
stakeholders, above and beyond intra-function collaboration. For instance, NPD designers can involve the marketing
department and its insights into customer psychographics, as a means of more quickly and efficiently coming up with a
product design that will appeal more strongly to the target market.
Collaboration across corporate boundaries
As outsourcing has become a more accepted and productivity-enhancing practice, the definition of core competencies to be
kept in-house is continually in flux. A comprehensive IPM solution allows a company greater latitude in how it collaborates
with its outsourcing partners.
For instance, a computer OEM may have contracted production to an Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) provider as
a desirable least-cost option for its lean-production business model. With old approaches to product management, the OEM
would dictate the specifications developed by its design team and the EMS provider would simply fulfill the production role
in a very rigid and constrained relationship.
In an effort to grab a larger “share of lifecycle,” however, the EMS provider may start migrating toward a role as original
design manufacturer (ODM), offering designs that it has tested for cost-effectiveness and a more streamlined EOL process.
The OEM can better enable this migration with an IPM solution that creates a common frame of reference through which the
OEM and EMS provider can operate. As a result, the EMS provider is able to expand its business model and footprint in the
creative process. Meanwhile, the OEM benefits from even lower-cost product development and a more nimble design process
through the use of the EMS provider’s design templates. It’s a classic win-win situation enabled by IPM.
The Infosys approach: The data perspective
Of course, for applications to be integrated, the data sets need to find common ground. This is easier said than done: there is
a long history of applications being designed to generate data sets that effectively limit access by means of exclusive, function-
specific jargon. Data sets, like their applications, are generally developed for a specific user group, not the entire supply and
lifecycle chains.
In Figure 4, however, you can see how bill-of-material (BOM) can provide a common data set that can easily translate across
functions and applications.
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8. Upstream The Supply Chain Downstream
Conceptual Design Production Assembly Delivery
Phase Phase Phase Phase Phase
Conceptual BOM Design BOM Production BOM Assembly BOM Product BOM
Integrated Product BOM
Figure 3: Integrating data sets, using Bill of Materials
Any information that results in a design modification in the product-development loop will ripple through the supply chain,
thus updating the Integrated Product BOM. In an IPM environment, the objective is to extend such integration to all the
processes and applications that are running concurrently, thus providing an integrated view across the supply chain.
Using BOM, you can create the desired “single view” of the product that minimizes the silo-ing of people and processes.
This facilitates the communication of input from stakeholders outside the supply chain who might add value, e.g., EOL
management input into the design group regarding preferred materials choices and recycling mandates.
IPM in action
Infosys believes that IPM implementation will offer extraordinary benefits across the product supply chain. While none
of these examples fully demonstrate how a comprehensive, cradle-to-grave program would operate, they provide a good
indication of the power of such similar implementations.
Port re-use at a high-tech OEM
This large global OEM developed a parts database as a component of their supplier-relationship-management application.
Engineers search the database before creating original part designs through an integrated new-part-generation application. As
a result, intradivision part reuse has grown from 2% to more than 30%, annual part-number-reductions range from 20% to
38% and year-to-year savings have been as high as US$240M.
Packaging vendor strategy and artwork collaboration
For this top CPG company, new product development also involves new packaging development. Devising a dual-vendor
PLM strategy, the company has claimed savings of hundreds of millions of dollars. They have reduced plastic molded colorant
costs by 20%, adhesives by 15% and, by improving collaboration on artwork and packaging among 6000 users (from
marketing, design, manufacturing and the supplier base), they have reduced time-to-market by 20% to 30%.
Time-to-market reduction at a major auto manufacturer
Integration efforts at this automotive company since 1995 have reduced development applications from 1500 to just a few
hundred, and portals from 150 to just 1. Real-time digital access to vehicle design information and digital mock-ups has
reduced the need for creating US$500K physical prototypes. As a result, the player has reduced their time-to-market by 30
months and been able to cut its global development budget by 35%.
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9. In the final analysis
Because it operates so pervasively within a company, integrated product lifecycle management can be a challenging
undertaking. But it also promises to have a dramatic impact on how productively and profitably a company operates, by
virtue of that very pervasiveness.
Infosys believes that you can build a highly effective IPM solution on the back of your current systems and begin reaping the
benefits of:
• Addressing all product-development and portfolio-management needs by operating with an integrated view across
different functions.
• Shifting from a function-centric perspective to a more holistic focus that encompasses business processes and
applications.
• Unleashing the creativity and tremendous efficiencies of cross-function collaboration.
• Reduced time-to-market and increased customer-responsiveness.
To significantly improve your odds for success, Infosys believes you need to find the right mix of technology, process change,
and consulting savvy. Only by doing so, can you implement solutions with the high level of predictability needed to deliver
the full operating-efficiency and financial advantages of integrated PLM.
About the Authors:
Sourabh Deshmukh (sourabh_deshmukh@infosys.com) is consultant in Manufacturing and Supply Chain group,
Domain Competency Group with Infosys Ltd (NASDAQ: INFY). Sourabh has over 5 years experience in fields of
procurement, vendor management, manufacturing process audits and holds Masters Degree in Industrial Engineering
from Texas A&M University.
Jagmeet Singh (jagmeet_singh@infosys.com) has 6 years experience in the areas of CAD, FEA, PLM and ERP-SAP. He
has extensively worked in the automotive and aerospace domains for international clients and has been involved in
PLM implementations for Fortune 500 clients.
Further Reading:
1. “PLM Coming of Age: ERP Vendors Take Notice”, P.J. Jakovljevic and Jim Brown in Technology Evaluation.com - July
2004
2. “Optimize: The Metamorphosis Of Information”, Larry Downes, June 2002
3. “The Value of PLM and How to Get It”, AMR Research, April 2003
4. “Unmanaged R&D Spending is the Leak that Shareholders Want Plugged”, AMR Research, Feb 2004
Infosys Hi-Tech and Discrete Manufacturing (HTDM) Practice
The Infosys HTDM Practice delivers business solutions to Fortune 500 clients representing all parts of the Hi-tech and
manufacturing value chain, spanning from semi-conductor manufacturers to OEMs, value-added resellers and distributors,
software products and service companies and other discrete manufacturing companies. Infosys provides services that cover
business process conceptualization, process engineering, package selection and implementation, application development,
maintenance and support, infrastructure management, product engineering and business process outsourcing. To meet
customer needs, Infosys leverages strategic alliances with our partners including IBM, Informatica, MatrixOne, Microsoft,
Oracle, Sun Microsystems, TIBCO and Yantra.
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