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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

If the interBiz to mean the intelligence and the forecast beyond the ERP?

In October and November, interBiz, the division of applications of International e-business of Computer Associates, Inc. (NYSE: CA), increased its solutions of in back-office with the advertisement of the improvements of products and a free service of evaluation. The advertisements were:



  * A free service of evaluation for companies in industries of durable goods

  * General availability of version 8.4 of manufacture of Mk

  * Plans of best quality of service which provide maintenance for modifications and the migration of the modifications to new versions of the applications of software of interBiz

This, the part one of a note in two parts, discusses these advertisements and their impact of the market. Part two will discuss the challenges taken up by the interBiz and will put forth recommendations of user.

On November 13, the interBiz announced a free service of evaluation for companies in industries of durable goods. The evaluation provides to wholesalers and distributors a comparison of their execution against the average and the good-in-class of industry. The evaluation report also estimates the financial advantages of the improvement of execution.

the interBiz determined that there are roughly 35.000 distributors and wholesalers in the industry of durable goods. Research also supposedly noted that the speed of the e-business made assemble levels of inventory and safety-actions; that places order became smaller and more frequent and consequently expensive to treat than front; that the personalization of the products made forecasts more difficult; and that all this took place while competition on the price stiffened.

The questionnaire of service of evaluation of interBiz was commissioned of Buker Inc., the organization of consultation total and independent which developed the certification of Class-A and specializes in the distribution and industries. The questions, and their interpretation, vary industry with industry but usually concentrate on the execution of the delivery (by the subjected company and its suppliers), the management of order, the durations of cycle, the rates of actions-outside, the costs, and the casch management. The algorithms developed by Buker Inc. are applied to determine things such as the impact to profitability. The service of evaluation of interBiz is free. Wholesalers and distributors in the market of the accessories of the motor vehicles, the professional and the commercial equipment, the electric goods, the material and piping, the machines, the equipment, and the segments of provisioning can take part.

On October 29, the interBiz announced the general availability of one of its many version 8.4 of manufacture of the Mk solutions of the planning of entrepreneurial resource of flagship (ERP). Roughly half of the functional improvements in version 8.4 refer to the management of logistics. Mk manufacturing 8.4 provides the ERP and the realization integrated of order on platforms of Windows NT and Unix. The majority of the popular relational databases are also constant.

Several of the improvements of device in version 8.4 of the manufacture of Mk are related to the management of logistics and the realization and include improvements in the forwarding of fall, advanced notes of forwarding (ASNs), outside-discovery of the numbers of periodic publication and batch, of multiple deliver-with the addresses, the greatest flexibility of carrier and forwarding agent, and the consolidated scaffolding of the delivery. Since the advanced management of warehouse is integral with the manufacture of Mk, the handling inventory of the improvements in version 8.4 (the additional support of radio frequency (RF), to intercalate selection and put-far, of the improvements of cycle counting, etc) are supposedly available to all the aspects of the company, C. - with-D., raw materials and inventories of the works in progress (WIP), like the traditional inventory of end products. In addition to logistics and improvements of realization, version 8.4 of manufacture of Mk provides improvements to its functions of service, planning, financial management, projects, and devices of personalization of product.

On October 15, the interBiz announced the plans of best quality of service, which provide maintenance for modifications and the migration of the modifications to new versions of the applications of software of interBiz. The company spy to be the first supplier of software to develop a plan of migration and modification it of the hearths on the reduction of the concept of risk. The plans of best quality of service are at the disposal of all the customers of ERP of interBiz and solutions of logistics. Modifications internally developed, third and interBiz-created can be covered within the framework of the plans. Two plans are offered: the support plan of migration and maintenance support the plan.

The support plan of migration makes sure that when the customers emigrate with new versions of the products of interBiz their modifications will as well be emigrated, any additional costs. Moreover, the customers who choose the support plan of migration can have corrections of interBiz examined to ensure compatibility with the modifications (and all affected modifications which must be adapted) before they install the correction on their system.

The support plan of maintenance provides the level and the customer support of businesses for modifications. The customers of support plan of maintenance can place calls of support on modifications by the certified OIN 9000, the telephone 24x7 and the interBiz in line of system of support maintains. The customers of support plan of maintenance should not identify any more if an exit is related to a product of modification or basic - both are covered within the framework of the support plan of maintenance. The evaluation for the two packages is based on a percentage of the modification 'initial costs of S and is posted on an annual base.





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