excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 100% Kalthoff finds PDM buyers reaching for their w... Summary: Kalthoff's research also shows an increasing number of companies in the later stages of system evaluation, a key indicator of the market's potential for growth. The buying index research data was compiled to identify active purchasing initiatives and buying cycle phases for PDM and EDMS software. Results showed that 423 sites reported having a PDM or EDMS purchasing initiative underway. Of the... 89% EDMPDM: An IW Summary: EDM--engineering document management--refers to managing all the documents and data used by engineers, while PDM--product data management, a newer manifestation--encompasses product-related data that originates with the engineer and makes links to other industrial systems. In mechanical engineering, for instance, where product data management is an essential part of the engineering database,... 88% As islands of document automation collide, engi Summary: Those systems focus on managing the company's bill of materials, product configuration and engineering change orders. There is a close integration between the PDM system and the company's ERP/MRP system that manages the production and inventory control process. The systems have a tight integration with the ERP/MRP system. It's the need to manage the many drawings and procedure and specification... 87% Aircraft industry embraces EDM The integration... Summary: Imaging World, March 3rd, 1997 Aircraft industry embraces EDM. The integration of document management and engineering drawings is attaining a firm foothold in the manufacturing market. A critical sector within the manufacturing sphere is the aircraft industry. The following case studies explore the use of document management applications by Raytheon Corporate Jet and Learjet. Raytheon officials... 87% Allies market standards-based PDM software Summary: Allies market standards-based PDM software. Enterprise document management provider PC Docs (Burlington, MA) and Agile Software (San Jose) have agreed to work together to provide information management solutions for manufacturing and engineering organizations. Using ODMA standards, the partners-based approach will provide manufacturing customers with an integrated solution to control, manage... 86% EDM/PDM Summary: Cost/benefit analysis. The costs associated with revising drawings are dependent on the method and solution used. * Increased value of paper drawings through integration with CAD and EDM/PDM tools. The overall benefit to organizations of scanning paper drawings is to increase the value of the company's most valued asset--information. The value of the drawings increases along with existing... 84% The CAD connection While EDMPDM vendors bring... Summary: While EDM/PDM vendors bring out systems designed. to work with a variety of CAD formats, CAD vendors. are building tools of their own. As the worlds of engineering and business merge, EDM/PDM vendors need to support the concepts that have evolved around the user. Many CAD vendors are building complete PDM/EDM systems, says Jenkins. 81% 50 who make a difference Summary: Delphi Consulting Group. Imerge Consulting. Wang. Arthur Gingrande, IMERGE Consulting 13. William Stratigos, Wang 40. 80% EDMS technology is becoming a central theme in... Summary: ... lending operations EDMS applications. operations EDMS applications. ... cash management EDMS applications. ... item processing EDMS applications. all items archive. 80% How PDM can fight competitive battles Summary: With the new system, electronic change requests are possible. Also new is electronic viewing and sign off. Users can query a document's status, view a drawing in progress, access detailed information about process changes, look at outstanding change requests, or query a part to see where it is used throughout Morton. "That makes it much easier for us to meet certification requirements." copy on... 79% Bentley finds a $95 million EDM Summary: Bentley finds a $95 million EDM. Its latest offering, TeamMate, integrates engineering and document workflow management with MicroStation software. Positioning its products against Intergraph's DM2 line, MicroStation is targeting the smaller installations. According to Dave Widdoes, product manager, MicroStation line scales from teams of five to 10 seats, up to tens of thousands of users.... 79% Networked document management Think globally,... Summary: For years we have had "enterprise document management systems" and "enterprisewide deployment." Documents for the whole company. Web technologies are also bringing document systems to new customers. The new markets. New buyers are coming into the market, and existing buyers are thinking about document systems in terms of their overall business. 77% Vegas' Clark County gambles on single-source r... Summary: Vegas' Clark County gambles on single-source records solution. Clark County has opted for a single vendor to provide the imaging and indexing software. The information systems department has selected a countywide document imaging and workflow system from Image-X (Goleta, CA). According to Image-X, Clark County is the first county government in the nation to embrace a single solution approach to... 76% Drawing a document technology roadmap Summary: document management and electronic delivery. Document management for authoring or delivery? Tools for communicating and coordinating are perhaps more important, too, since authoring is more collaborative than viewing or delivering documents. Standards impact document delivery and management at the document, application, and communications levels. They are also the systems of choice for Web-only... 75% Imaging: Latest tool of the trade for today's mortgage lender Summary: Information Services Group.. Imaging improving processes. That number also enables the document image to be accessed throughout the loan process. (The bank decides if and how original paperwork should be archived. "Modern service. 74% Document Management Summary: The hurricane is the "intranet phenomenon." * Intranets have created "document middleware." Document middleware. The intrusion of middleware is certainly the most esoteric but perhaps also the most profound effect of intranets on document systems. New buyers. 73% Market needs standards and education, AIIM stu... Summary: The report surveyed 756 vendors and users to gain insight into the trends affecting the selection, purchase and deployment of COLD and RDS systems. Lack of education was cited as the reason 38% of potential COLD users and 51% of potential RDS users gave for not installing the systems. While the vendors see the consumers' lack of information, potential users of both technologies cite the lack of... 72% IW Special Report From The Channel Summary: The users just don't know what they need." "I don't know of any vendor that does that well," he comments. Just as vendors are obliged to educate their resellers, so too are those resellers responsible for educating their users, the experts declare. * "Distributors are not set up to support software, and they end up in the middle between you and the vendor," says Johnson. Johnson believes good... 72% Users create demand for imaging Desktop documen Summary: Desktop document image. The fact is, the demand for desktop image management originates from a market segment that is not composed of traditional document imaging users.. DOCS Imaging gets. DOCS Imaging challenges Watermark. In comparison, Watermark only notes-edits. 71% The Sales Link 10-21-96 Summary: Why have a method? So is there only one method? In concept, however, we use two primary methods: baseline method and method lite. Why would you use method lite over the traditional baseline method? It takes more time, but has much lower risk.
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