Do I need to make a choice between Standardization and Flexibility?
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December 17, 2008
Let's talk about BI Layers – Series 3 of 3
Coming to the last of the blog series on BI layers, this topic will also touch upon some popular analysis models used by data architects and analysts to develop and understand an enterprise data model.
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Evolving technology trends in Procurement - Part 1
Procurement practitioners have been front runners in adopting changing technology for past few years. Tactical savings in time and hence the cost of acquisition was definitely a leading intent behind this adoption. In the process, practitioners have realized that adapting to newer technology does provide huge information visibility and free up a lot of their operational time to think on much critical issues like source selection, supplier rationalization, low cost country sourcing etc. In the upcoming posts I will focus on some of these evolving technological changes and their impact.
Today let’s confer around evolving trends in Sourcing.
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December 16, 2008
Let's talk about BI Layers- Series 2 of 3
In the earlier blog I covered the names of the various BI layers and the need for a logical model/data architecture in an enterprise data warehouse.Now let us get into the details.
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Move to Managed services model for higher value realization
As organizations gain experience from the one to one traditional model, they also realize that there are pro's & cons of the one to one model. On the other hand demand for continuous improvement and higher returns from the existing investments is making them explore managed services model.
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Overview of Unicode
Background:
Fundamentally, computers deal with just numbers. Characters are converted to predetermined numbers in order to be stored in the system. For example in the ASCII encoding “A” is stored as 65 (Dec) and “a” as 97 (Dec). As the need to store characters from different languages arose, different forums were formed to create different code pages that would suit their requirement. However, there was no order maintained to ensure that the numbers consumed by characters in other code pages are not reused. Soon there was a mess with different characters being represented by the same number in different code pages and also because of the repetition of some of these characters.
EAM Challenges in Utility Industry
For utilities, asset management is a critical component of business Performance. Utility companies face the challenge of implementing operational and maintenance standards and practices to continually improve the balance between asset reliability and costs. Asset management in Utility has following challenges compared to other industries
- Different operating environments
- Static assets such as overhead cables and poles must be monitored to account for the effects
Of load factors including electrical current, wind, and temperature
- Need of Flexible asset management to optimize core and advanced processes.
- Customer service is an integral part of asset management for planning outage and schedule maintenance
- Accurate information of asset is essential for improving operational efficiency and customer service. Therefore a new technology such as mobility and Graphical information system becomes integral part of asset management to improve the speed and efficiency of asset maintenance and repair.
- Regulatory requirements and demonstrating compliance is common across the utility sector therefore requires a good asset management
- Stringent safety regulations particularly in case of nuclear power industries
December 12, 2008
Let's talk about BI layers - Series 1 of 3
To deliver effective Business Intelligence , organizations need to progressively design and implement a rugged data warehouse with the right enterprise data flow architecture and not to forget a logical data architecture.
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Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) overview
Background..
In today’s world companies are under increasing pressure to reduce costs, meet tougher performance and production targets, comply with regulatory requirements, and maximize return on assets. A new, more collaborative and integrated approach to enterprise asset management (EAM) can yield significant savings and improve the operational performance of asset investments. This new approach spans all phases of the asset life cycle – investment planning, specification, design, asset construction, operations and maintenance, and, ultimately, decommissioning and disposal. It is time to look at asset management in a more holistic and collaborative business context. EAM helps companies manage physical assets – production plants, capital equipment, vehicle fleets, and facilities complexes – over the complete asset life cycle. In conjunction with powerful reporting and analysis, the SAP solutions’ EAM capabilities enable you to reduce operating costs, better manage capital expenditure, and improve asset utilization.
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Composite applications and the 3 "R's" of your "Green" SAP
It must be kind of surprising to hear 3 R's in the context of SAP. But it’s true that composite applications and its 3 R’s can transform how clients use SAP to transform their business.In these difficult economic times, what we are looking for is maximum value of the $ investment and here I am adding my 2 cents to it.
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