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Interoperability - Turning a Liability into an Asset

How to reduce data exchange, sharing and integration costs and drive business forward

This one-day workshop focuses on the practical problems relating to data exchange, sharing and integration. The workshop outlines the origin of these problems, their impact on business bottom line, how they can be solved, and how far current and emerging technologies have gone to provide effective solutions. In particular the workshop has been designed to answer the following and many related questions:

  1. Can there be ERP, PDM and CAx integrations without pain?

  2. Can data migration projects ever be on time and within budget?

  3. Is data exchange a necessary evil?

  4. Can current technology deliver the B2B promise?

  5. Can users reclaim owenership and control of their data?

  6. Is data sharing in a multi-vendor environment a panacea?

  7. Can data outlive the application that generated it?

  8. Must there be hardware and software upgrades to accompany every new release of a key application?

Workshop Benefits and Target Audience

The workshop is aimed for companies with complex data management and integration environment. In particular, companies with major implementation and/or R & D projects; or companies that have grown by acquisitions and inherited a variety of incompatible IT systems.

The workshop is designed for senior managers, project leaders and professionals in charge of developing and implementing engineering IT strategies to help them gain:

  1. A thorough understanding of the practical issues relating to data exchange, migration, sharing and integration

  2. An independent assessment of the status of technology currently available in the market place - what they can and cannot do.

  3. How to reduce data exchange, sharing and integration costs and drive business forward