In a recent Supply Chain research report distributed by TEC at www.technologyevaluation.com , they described the 3 main technologies used by manufacturing and distribution companies to automate their businesses and streamline their processes. They explain how these decision support systems worked together to guide and protect them through the up-swings and down-turns of the economy. These 3 “mission critical” systems included ERP (enterprise resource planning), SCM (supply chain management) and APS (advanced planning and scheduling).
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Got Your Head In The Cloud?
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 by Tim Schram
If you haven’t heard the phrases ‘Cloud Computing’ and ‘Saas’ (Software as a Service), then you may have been hiding under a rock.
Whether you are reading a blog, surfing the Net or leafing through an IT magazine, you’re bound to come across that terminology. Just by doing a Google search for some industry-related words, the numbers are impressive:
- 63,200,000 hits for Client Server
- 29,500,000 hits for Cloud Computing
- 25,500,000 hits for Software as a Service (SaaS)
- 14,300,000 hits for Active Server Pages (ASP)
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