This document discusses challenges facing the biopharmaceutical industry and introduces BioPharm Services' BioSolve software solutions. It summarizes that:
1) Biopharma industry costs are rising due to more expensive facilities, uncertain sales forecasts, and increasing biosimilar threats.
2) BioSolve provides integrated process modeling software to help standardize data, model processes, and assess costs early in development.
3) BioSolve Connect is an enterprise solution that centrally manages process resources and models to facilitate decision making across organizations.
An outline of the BioSOlve process cost modelling program how it can be used rapidly evaluate technologies, process options and understand the cost drivers in a process as function of scale etc.
Measuring Impact of Cost on Bioprocessingpasinclair
1) The document discusses measuring manufacturing costs and their impact on organizations. It examines how companies assess costs in making process and technology choices for biologic drug manufacturing.
2) Companies need cost models to understand how choices influence manufacturing costs, required investments, and risk management. Cost of goods models are commonly used but have limitations.
3) To optimize decision making, companies need consistent cost modeling approaches that define boundaries, use standard data, and can be shared across organizations. This will help companies drive down costs early in development.
Cisco presentation in RAOTM 2012, HCMC VietnamSon Phan
The document discusses Cisco's solutions for smart and connected manufacturing operations excellence. It describes moving from isolated plant networks and information silos to a converged architecture with real-time visibility and collaboration across manufacturing operations. This allows for quicker issue resolution, improved asset utilization, and better plant performance.
Value engineering aims to reduce costs and extend product lifecycles by identifying opportunities to improve value. However, investor expectations often exceed realistic product value over time as margins decline. HCL's value engineering framework takes a phased approach to minimize risk, with iterative projects delivering measurable savings and reinvestment. Case studies demonstrate cost reductions of up to 30% and development time reductions of up to 50% through integrated services like reengineering and optimizing bills of materials.
The author of this presentation has created the virtual model of a batch manufacturing factory, using an enterprise architecture tool. Processes, applications, infrastructures, data models, etal, are stored in a repository called encyclopedia. Due to the impossibility of publishing the encyclopedia I decided to publish at least the diagrams, that constitute only one facet of the whole. This presentation is the collection of such diagrams.
Achieving Compliant Manufacturing Excellence through Real-time Performance Ma...FindWhitePapers
Consider how life sciences manufacturers can deal effectively with dynamic market needs, increased compliance requirements, more distributed manufacturing operations, and rapid product innovation.
Complexity in Industrial ERP:Getting Back to One Version of the TruthCharles Rathmann
This study surveyed 200 manufacturing executives to understand how well ERP systems meet complex business needs. It found:
1) Manufacturers face increasing complexity from diversifying into more demanding models.
2) Integration is key to support new models but many rely on multiple applications, increasing costs and inefficiency.
3) Processes like defense, aftermarket service, and asset maintenance require the most applications on average.
4) Better project management integration supports processes like projects and manufacturing more effectively.
Trends and solutions in mes and operations management g gorbach arc orlando 2008ARC Advisory Group
Global manufacturing trends are driving changes in manufacturing execution systems (MES) and operations management (OM). Traditional MES applications and older IT infrastructures are limiting performance. Now manufacturers are investing more in plant floor IT like OM, an $8 billion market. Today's dynamic environment values information and synchronization across functions like design, engineering, supply chain, production, and customers. OM provides real-time visibility, analytics, connectivity, and orchestration to help manufacturers improve performance metrics like flexibility, quality, and productivity. An effective OM solution has three pillars - infrastructure, connectivity, and functionality - to support business needs across the operations.
An outline of the BioSOlve process cost modelling program how it can be used rapidly evaluate technologies, process options and understand the cost drivers in a process as function of scale etc.
Measuring Impact of Cost on Bioprocessingpasinclair
1) The document discusses measuring manufacturing costs and their impact on organizations. It examines how companies assess costs in making process and technology choices for biologic drug manufacturing.
2) Companies need cost models to understand how choices influence manufacturing costs, required investments, and risk management. Cost of goods models are commonly used but have limitations.
3) To optimize decision making, companies need consistent cost modeling approaches that define boundaries, use standard data, and can be shared across organizations. This will help companies drive down costs early in development.
Cisco presentation in RAOTM 2012, HCMC VietnamSon Phan
The document discusses Cisco's solutions for smart and connected manufacturing operations excellence. It describes moving from isolated plant networks and information silos to a converged architecture with real-time visibility and collaboration across manufacturing operations. This allows for quicker issue resolution, improved asset utilization, and better plant performance.
Value engineering aims to reduce costs and extend product lifecycles by identifying opportunities to improve value. However, investor expectations often exceed realistic product value over time as margins decline. HCL's value engineering framework takes a phased approach to minimize risk, with iterative projects delivering measurable savings and reinvestment. Case studies demonstrate cost reductions of up to 30% and development time reductions of up to 50% through integrated services like reengineering and optimizing bills of materials.
The author of this presentation has created the virtual model of a batch manufacturing factory, using an enterprise architecture tool. Processes, applications, infrastructures, data models, etal, are stored in a repository called encyclopedia. Due to the impossibility of publishing the encyclopedia I decided to publish at least the diagrams, that constitute only one facet of the whole. This presentation is the collection of such diagrams.
Achieving Compliant Manufacturing Excellence through Real-time Performance Ma...FindWhitePapers
Consider how life sciences manufacturers can deal effectively with dynamic market needs, increased compliance requirements, more distributed manufacturing operations, and rapid product innovation.
Complexity in Industrial ERP:Getting Back to One Version of the TruthCharles Rathmann
This study surveyed 200 manufacturing executives to understand how well ERP systems meet complex business needs. It found:
1) Manufacturers face increasing complexity from diversifying into more demanding models.
2) Integration is key to support new models but many rely on multiple applications, increasing costs and inefficiency.
3) Processes like defense, aftermarket service, and asset maintenance require the most applications on average.
4) Better project management integration supports processes like projects and manufacturing more effectively.
Trends and solutions in mes and operations management g gorbach arc orlando 2008ARC Advisory Group
Global manufacturing trends are driving changes in manufacturing execution systems (MES) and operations management (OM). Traditional MES applications and older IT infrastructures are limiting performance. Now manufacturers are investing more in plant floor IT like OM, an $8 billion market. Today's dynamic environment values information and synchronization across functions like design, engineering, supply chain, production, and customers. OM provides real-time visibility, analytics, connectivity, and orchestration to help manufacturers improve performance metrics like flexibility, quality, and productivity. An effective OM solution has three pillars - infrastructure, connectivity, and functionality - to support business needs across the operations.
The document describes Kaoru Ishikawa and the Ishikawa diagram, also known as a fishbone diagram or cause-and-effect diagram. It was developed by Ishikawa to help teams visualize and analyze the potential causes of a particular problem or effect. The diagram structures causes into main categories, typically including methods, machines, materials, measurements, management, manpower, and environment. It then maps potential causes in each category that could contribute to the problem or effect. The document provides examples of using the diagram to analyze the causes of increased productivity in a company and excessive paper drop in a printing process.
2011 RAMS Tutorial Effective Reliability Program Traits and ManagementAccendo Reliability
The document outlines key traits for effective reliability program management. It discusses setting reliability goals and metrics at multiple points in the product lifecycle. Goals should include intended function, operating environment, duration, and probability of success. Metrics provide milestones to track progress towards goals. The document provides an example of breaking down a system-level goal into goals for subsystems, and approaches for resolving gaps between goals and estimates.
Supply chain management is the streamlining of a business' supply-side activities to maximize customer value and to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Supply chain management (SCM) represents an effort by suppliers to develop and implement supply chains that are as efficient and economical as possible. Supply chains cover everything from production, to product development, to the information systems needed to direct these undertakings.
This document discusses process strategies for operations management. It describes four main process strategies: process focus, repetitive focus, product focus, and mass customization. For each strategy, it outlines the key characteristics including typical production setup, skills required, inventory levels, and scheduling complexity. The document also covers tools for analyzing processes like flowcharts, process charts, and value stream mapping. Finally, it discusses considerations for designing service processes and techniques like service blueprinting.
--Report european roadmap for process intensification (december 2007)Sergey Lourie
This document presents a European roadmap for process intensification (PI). It identifies potential benefits of PI technologies for various industry sectors. The roadmap recommends actions to accelerate PI implementation, including fundamental research, upscaling technologies, developing enabling tools, optimizing value chains, and disseminating knowledge. Successful adoption of PI could improve energy efficiency, reduce costs, and increase process safety across European process industries.
TNO works on high end Process Intensification Technologies for more efficient and faster chemical production. This presentation shows our portfolio and approach.
RFID technology can provide item-level visibility that improves efficiency for process-intensive companies like contract manufacturers and packers. This allows opportunities for cost savings. Specifically:
1) RFID-enabled package validation after pick-and-place operations can validate box contents before shipment, improving shipping accuracy and realizing immediate cost savings.
2) Pushing RFID tagging earlier in the process provides additional efficiencies that increase return on investment.
3) RFID improves on manual and barcode data entry methods by providing more automation, greater accuracy, and unique item-level identification, helping reduce errors in pick-and-pack operations.
Slideshows of chapters (pom 2e oup by kanishka bedi)mansinadani
The document discusses various quality management concepts including:
- Definitions of quality from different experts like fitness for purpose, conformance to specifications, and total quality control.
- Dimensions of quality like performance, reliability, appearance, customer service, and costs of quality.
- Contributions of quality experts like Deming, Juran, and Feigenbaum to concepts like statistical process control, prevention costs, and management commitment.
- Quality assurance tools and techniques like acceptance sampling, process capability, Six Sigma, and ISO standards for quality management systems.
This document discusses learning curves in operations management. It contains 3 learning objectives: 1) define a learning curve, 2) use arithmetic concepts to estimate times, and 3) compute learning curve effects using logarithmic and learning coefficient approaches. It then provides an outline of topics, examples of industries with learning curves, and explanations of the arithmetic, logarithmic, and learning coefficient approaches for estimating costs and times with experience.
The document discusses opportunities for improving integration between quality laboratories and the supply chain. It outlines how Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) are often not fully integrated with ERP, MES and supply chain processes. Standardizing key business processes and achieving full operational integration could help reduce costs and bottlenecks. Case studies show benefits achieved by companies that redesigned quality control processes to better align with supply chain planning and monitoring actual laboratory costs.
The document outlines a chapter about the design of goods and services. It discusses key topics like product strategy options, product life cycles, product development, and defining products. The learning objectives are to understand concepts such as the product life cycle, product development systems, time-based competition, and how products and services are defined. It also provides examples of companies that implement different product strategies.
The document discusses trends in manufacturing flexibility and material handling. Two significant shifts are increased market complexity and reduced product development cycle times. This challenges production systems not designed for change. Effective material handling is a foundation for flexible production like lean manufacturing. Trilogiq helps customers achieve flexibility through solutions that minimize touches, optimize part display, and implement returnable packaging to improve metrics like throughput, inventory, footprint, and safety. Trilogiq has a global presence and supports customers across industries.
The document discusses new product development strategies and processes. It begins by outlining reasons for new product failures, such as overestimating market size. It then describes various NPD strategies including developing original products, acquisitions, and product improvements. The core of the document focuses on the multi-stage NPD process, from opportunity identification and concept development to testing, marketing planning, and commercialization. Cross-functional teams and market research methods like focus groups are also emphasized.
IFP is a project management consulting firm that specializes in delivering projects for the food industry. Their mission is to become the top provider of project solutions for food clients through high quality service, cost effectiveness, and long term relationships. IFP has expertise across all aspects of food projects including production, facilities, metrics, systems, safety, and people. They work with clients from initial project planning through implementation.
Monsanto has transformed corn seed production through strategic investments and operational improvements. They consolidated production from 138 sites in 10 companies in 1998 to 67 modernized sites in a single focused organization by 2005. Monsanto implemented manufacturing best practices like Six Sigma and Lean to improve product quality, increase yields, and reduce costs by over 35% in North America. Their world-class production processes now deliver consistently high quality seeds with improved farmer yields and productivity, generating significant gains in gross profit.
Making Sense of Manufacturing Data - Industry 2.0 June 09Dhiren Gala
With increasing competition and ever demanding customers, manufacturing continues to face new challenges every day. By applying business intelligence techniques, manufacturing organizations can enhance operational management and realize new savings.
- Sanjay Mehta, CEO, MAIA Intelligence
Enterprise quality data for the supply chainIBS America
Slide presentation on Optimizing the Supply Chain throughout the supply chain, where attendees were able to have a framework for reviewing the systems that support their supply chain.
This document summarizes a study on improving outcomes in medical device manufacturing. It found that the most successful companies grew more than 10% while improving key metrics like quality and costs. These "advancers" used tools like product lifecycle management (PLM) software to facilitate concurrent, collaborative new product development. PLM helped advancers automate information flows and simulate quality by design, leading to reduced defects and faster time to market. The study concludes that taking a total product lifecycle approach focused on innovation, quality, and information sharing is needed to improve both business performance and patient outcomes.
The document discusses how manufacturers need plant software now more than ever to address a turbulent business environment with global competition, price pressure, and increasing costs. Plant IT is now necessary and cost-effective to enable innovation, responsiveness, compliance, execution excellence, and operating efficiency. The four pillars of manufacturing performance are execution, innovation, compliance, and value creation, and plant software is a critical tool for achieving enterprise performance across these areas. Emerging trends include top-down deals to improve governance, quality, and flexibility as well as the need for integration between plant software and PLM systems. A holistic operations management approach utilizing a modern platform with broad connectivity is needed to manage diverse operations applications and functions.
The document introduces the Minerva Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution for the electronics, high-tech, and medical device industries. It highlights key capabilities like change management, collaboration with external partners, quality management features, and regulatory compliance tools. The solution is demonstrated through the example of its implementation at a Swedish electronics control systems company called CPAC AB. Contact information is provided for Leon Lauritsen of Minerva to answer any additional questions.
The document summarizes how the industrialization of medicine is transforming healthcare from a cottage industry model to a mass production model similar to other industries. Key trends driving this change are the aging population and advancements in medical technology. This transformation provides both challenges and opportunities for providers, vendors, and investors. Areas seeing significant investment that represent opportunities include diagnostics, metrics, information technology, human resources management, business model design, and new care delivery models.
Healthcare and Life Sciences - Cloud ComputingMike Watson
Cloud computing offers healthcare and life sciences companies new opportunities for collaboration, innovation, and efficiency. It allows for vast amounts of data to be securely stored and shared, flexible infrastructure for research needs, and common business processes across organizations. This transforms industries by enabling new models like precision medicine through large-scale analytics and more agile product development through testing and trials in the cloud.
The document describes Kaoru Ishikawa and the Ishikawa diagram, also known as a fishbone diagram or cause-and-effect diagram. It was developed by Ishikawa to help teams visualize and analyze the potential causes of a particular problem or effect. The diagram structures causes into main categories, typically including methods, machines, materials, measurements, management, manpower, and environment. It then maps potential causes in each category that could contribute to the problem or effect. The document provides examples of using the diagram to analyze the causes of increased productivity in a company and excessive paper drop in a printing process.
2011 RAMS Tutorial Effective Reliability Program Traits and ManagementAccendo Reliability
The document outlines key traits for effective reliability program management. It discusses setting reliability goals and metrics at multiple points in the product lifecycle. Goals should include intended function, operating environment, duration, and probability of success. Metrics provide milestones to track progress towards goals. The document provides an example of breaking down a system-level goal into goals for subsystems, and approaches for resolving gaps between goals and estimates.
Supply chain management is the streamlining of a business' supply-side activities to maximize customer value and to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. Supply chain management (SCM) represents an effort by suppliers to develop and implement supply chains that are as efficient and economical as possible. Supply chains cover everything from production, to product development, to the information systems needed to direct these undertakings.
This document discusses process strategies for operations management. It describes four main process strategies: process focus, repetitive focus, product focus, and mass customization. For each strategy, it outlines the key characteristics including typical production setup, skills required, inventory levels, and scheduling complexity. The document also covers tools for analyzing processes like flowcharts, process charts, and value stream mapping. Finally, it discusses considerations for designing service processes and techniques like service blueprinting.
--Report european roadmap for process intensification (december 2007)Sergey Lourie
This document presents a European roadmap for process intensification (PI). It identifies potential benefits of PI technologies for various industry sectors. The roadmap recommends actions to accelerate PI implementation, including fundamental research, upscaling technologies, developing enabling tools, optimizing value chains, and disseminating knowledge. Successful adoption of PI could improve energy efficiency, reduce costs, and increase process safety across European process industries.
TNO works on high end Process Intensification Technologies for more efficient and faster chemical production. This presentation shows our portfolio and approach.
RFID technology can provide item-level visibility that improves efficiency for process-intensive companies like contract manufacturers and packers. This allows opportunities for cost savings. Specifically:
1) RFID-enabled package validation after pick-and-place operations can validate box contents before shipment, improving shipping accuracy and realizing immediate cost savings.
2) Pushing RFID tagging earlier in the process provides additional efficiencies that increase return on investment.
3) RFID improves on manual and barcode data entry methods by providing more automation, greater accuracy, and unique item-level identification, helping reduce errors in pick-and-pack operations.
Slideshows of chapters (pom 2e oup by kanishka bedi)mansinadani
The document discusses various quality management concepts including:
- Definitions of quality from different experts like fitness for purpose, conformance to specifications, and total quality control.
- Dimensions of quality like performance, reliability, appearance, customer service, and costs of quality.
- Contributions of quality experts like Deming, Juran, and Feigenbaum to concepts like statistical process control, prevention costs, and management commitment.
- Quality assurance tools and techniques like acceptance sampling, process capability, Six Sigma, and ISO standards for quality management systems.
This document discusses learning curves in operations management. It contains 3 learning objectives: 1) define a learning curve, 2) use arithmetic concepts to estimate times, and 3) compute learning curve effects using logarithmic and learning coefficient approaches. It then provides an outline of topics, examples of industries with learning curves, and explanations of the arithmetic, logarithmic, and learning coefficient approaches for estimating costs and times with experience.
The document discusses opportunities for improving integration between quality laboratories and the supply chain. It outlines how Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) are often not fully integrated with ERP, MES and supply chain processes. Standardizing key business processes and achieving full operational integration could help reduce costs and bottlenecks. Case studies show benefits achieved by companies that redesigned quality control processes to better align with supply chain planning and monitoring actual laboratory costs.
The document outlines a chapter about the design of goods and services. It discusses key topics like product strategy options, product life cycles, product development, and defining products. The learning objectives are to understand concepts such as the product life cycle, product development systems, time-based competition, and how products and services are defined. It also provides examples of companies that implement different product strategies.
The document discusses trends in manufacturing flexibility and material handling. Two significant shifts are increased market complexity and reduced product development cycle times. This challenges production systems not designed for change. Effective material handling is a foundation for flexible production like lean manufacturing. Trilogiq helps customers achieve flexibility through solutions that minimize touches, optimize part display, and implement returnable packaging to improve metrics like throughput, inventory, footprint, and safety. Trilogiq has a global presence and supports customers across industries.
The document discusses new product development strategies and processes. It begins by outlining reasons for new product failures, such as overestimating market size. It then describes various NPD strategies including developing original products, acquisitions, and product improvements. The core of the document focuses on the multi-stage NPD process, from opportunity identification and concept development to testing, marketing planning, and commercialization. Cross-functional teams and market research methods like focus groups are also emphasized.
IFP is a project management consulting firm that specializes in delivering projects for the food industry. Their mission is to become the top provider of project solutions for food clients through high quality service, cost effectiveness, and long term relationships. IFP has expertise across all aspects of food projects including production, facilities, metrics, systems, safety, and people. They work with clients from initial project planning through implementation.
Monsanto has transformed corn seed production through strategic investments and operational improvements. They consolidated production from 138 sites in 10 companies in 1998 to 67 modernized sites in a single focused organization by 2005. Monsanto implemented manufacturing best practices like Six Sigma and Lean to improve product quality, increase yields, and reduce costs by over 35% in North America. Their world-class production processes now deliver consistently high quality seeds with improved farmer yields and productivity, generating significant gains in gross profit.
Making Sense of Manufacturing Data - Industry 2.0 June 09Dhiren Gala
With increasing competition and ever demanding customers, manufacturing continues to face new challenges every day. By applying business intelligence techniques, manufacturing organizations can enhance operational management and realize new savings.
- Sanjay Mehta, CEO, MAIA Intelligence
Enterprise quality data for the supply chainIBS America
Slide presentation on Optimizing the Supply Chain throughout the supply chain, where attendees were able to have a framework for reviewing the systems that support their supply chain.
This document summarizes a study on improving outcomes in medical device manufacturing. It found that the most successful companies grew more than 10% while improving key metrics like quality and costs. These "advancers" used tools like product lifecycle management (PLM) software to facilitate concurrent, collaborative new product development. PLM helped advancers automate information flows and simulate quality by design, leading to reduced defects and faster time to market. The study concludes that taking a total product lifecycle approach focused on innovation, quality, and information sharing is needed to improve both business performance and patient outcomes.
The document discusses how manufacturers need plant software now more than ever to address a turbulent business environment with global competition, price pressure, and increasing costs. Plant IT is now necessary and cost-effective to enable innovation, responsiveness, compliance, execution excellence, and operating efficiency. The four pillars of manufacturing performance are execution, innovation, compliance, and value creation, and plant software is a critical tool for achieving enterprise performance across these areas. Emerging trends include top-down deals to improve governance, quality, and flexibility as well as the need for integration between plant software and PLM systems. A holistic operations management approach utilizing a modern platform with broad connectivity is needed to manage diverse operations applications and functions.
The document introduces the Minerva Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution for the electronics, high-tech, and medical device industries. It highlights key capabilities like change management, collaboration with external partners, quality management features, and regulatory compliance tools. The solution is demonstrated through the example of its implementation at a Swedish electronics control systems company called CPAC AB. Contact information is provided for Leon Lauritsen of Minerva to answer any additional questions.
The document summarizes how the industrialization of medicine is transforming healthcare from a cottage industry model to a mass production model similar to other industries. Key trends driving this change are the aging population and advancements in medical technology. This transformation provides both challenges and opportunities for providers, vendors, and investors. Areas seeing significant investment that represent opportunities include diagnostics, metrics, information technology, human resources management, business model design, and new care delivery models.
Healthcare and Life Sciences - Cloud ComputingMike Watson
Cloud computing offers healthcare and life sciences companies new opportunities for collaboration, innovation, and efficiency. It allows for vast amounts of data to be securely stored and shared, flexible infrastructure for research needs, and common business processes across organizations. This transforms industries by enabling new models like precision medicine through large-scale analytics and more agile product development through testing and trials in the cloud.
This document discusses ways to innovate successfully under tight resources and constraints. It emphasizes the importance of getting innovations right the first time due to short market and intellectual property windows. Key aspects discussed include properly defining the scope of the innovation, targeting features that are sufficient but not excessive, and optimizing features, quality, schedule, flexibility, maintainability and cost. The document also discusses the importance of vision, preparation, process, flexibility, focus and engagement across functions for successful innovation.
IHS Webcast - Navigating Today’s Global Regulatory Environment Tevia Arnold
This document summarizes a presentation on navigating today's global regulatory environment and best practices for managing compliance. The presentation discusses the top 10 regulations companies face, how the regulatory landscape is constantly evolving, and the broadening view of sustainability beyond just regulations. It emphasizes that compliance is key to business value drivers like time to market, cost, quality and innovation. A framework is provided for a systematic approach to compliance, covering areas like identifying requirements, capturing product data, analyzing compliance, and documenting the process. Options for tracking regulations include doing it internally, hiring consultants, or using a regulatory management system.
The document discusses Emerson's strategies for managing through an economic downturn, including maintaining price discipline, increasing research capabilities, aligning with emerging trends like environmental efficiency, building solutions presence across all businesses, and improving portfolio mix through business platforms and geography. It states that combining these capabilities with an expected post-2010 global economic rebound will create a strong foundation for growth and value creation.
The document discusses the Outside-In methodology created by Dick Lee for aligning business processes with customer needs. It describes how Outside-In examines workflows, communication flows, and data flows, as well as individual processes, and how technology can be aligned to better support new processes. Many large companies are using Outside-In to improve customer relationships, work quality, and efficiency. Training and certification opportunities are available through various programs.
SAP’s Approach to Sourcing and Procurement Strategies in Today’s EconomyJon Hansen
SAP's procurement solutions help companies address challenges in today's economy by delivering efficient source-to-pay processes to reduce costs. SAP provides options for on-premise, hosted, and on-demand deployment to support procurement goals. Benchmarking shows SAP solutions can increase managed spend and savings by hundreds of percent. SAP aims to drive rapid time to value through flexible deployment and easy to use best practice processes.
Smartere test og udvikling med virtualiserede miljøer, Mark Garcia, IBM USIBM Danmark
1. The document discusses software quality issues such as high costs of rework and poor quality costing businesses billions per year.
2. Traditional testing approaches have high costs due to large test labs and long cycle times for testing. As software complexity increases, these approaches are becoming impractical.
3. IBM's Rational Test Virtualization Solution addresses these issues by enabling virtual services that simulate entire applications and systems. This allows testing without access to production environments and reduces costs compared to hardware virtualization.
Presentation given at the BPM Executive Day, Bogota, Colombia, December 4, 2012. The presentation outlines the different dimensions of BPM activities an organization should consider when organizing their BPM efforts.
The document describes a scenario-based product support life cycle financial, availability, and resource planning software tool called Hypatia. It reduces the time needed to perform analytics and delivers accurate outputs without requiring large amounts of data. It provides the elements needed for product support business case analysis, market studies, and budgeting. The tool enables rapid identification of elements that impact total ownership cost and provides "what-if" capabilities to analyze life cycle costs, availability, and resource requirements. It is transitioning from an Excel workbook to a web-hosted SQL server product.
The document introduces a new data care service offering from Pilvion Ltd. to help large enterprises address the challenges of maintaining multiple, outdated, conflicting data sources. The service would involve outsourcing various manual data handling and enrichment tasks to Pilvion's expert teams to improve quality while reducing costs, errors, and inefficiencies compared to in-house management. Customers could request specific data care tasks and Pilvion would dispatch experts to perform the work either onsite, offsite, or offshore.
Zensar is a $3.7 billion conglomerate with businesses across industries including healthcare. In healthcare, Zensar provides consulting, integration, maintenance and development services for applications like EMR, CPOE, and e-prescribing. It helps with compliance requirements like ICD-10 and meaningful use. Services include patient and physician portals, mobile apps, core application support, and clinical staff training.
- Planet Metrics is a 10 person company founded in 2007 that provides sustainability analysis software to measure embodied energy and carbon across supply chains.
- The software helps companies assess risks like climate change and commodity prices, identify inefficiencies, and innovation opportunities to support corporate sustainability strategies and long-term financial performance.
- It provides a hybrid environmental database with tools for data management, simulation, and information visualization to analyze sustainability performance and collaborate on metrics.
Keynote delivered at the 6th International Workshop on Business Process Intelligence (BPI'10), September 13, 2010, in conjunction with the BPM 2010 conference, Hoboken, NJ
The document discusses Source2VALUE, a software solution called CARE that provides computer aided redocumentation and evaluation of source code. CARE analyzes source code to provide metrics, detect clones, check standards and guidelines, and generate documentation to help reduce software maintenance costs by 15-25%. CARE is meant for organizations that outsource development and have over 100,000 lines of code, providing transparency and insights into the software to help with cost control, quality and risk assessment. The solution supports various programming languages and provides functionality like merge and diff analyses, cross references, and filtering.