The democratisation of technology and the transformation of society that it facilitated are impacting virtually every major industry. In high tech manufacturing, the trends are causing an upheaval. No matter how innovative, flashy, or anticipated a product might be, high tech companies can also get punished in the marketplace if those products don’t measure up to quality. 

The lines have been increasingly blurring between high tech and non-high tech manufacturing—in large part due to the proliferation of technology into everyday consumer and business products. This has major implications for how high tech manufacturers operate today and how they’ll need to operate in the future. The first step in managing this transition is to understand the forces driving the integration of high tech manufacturing and other industries.

Integrating your ERP system with an EPM solution provides unparalleled benefits to your business. So how does this integration work? How can you consolidate your ERP system data with Infor EPM?

In today’s self-service business environment, enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions are invaluable for consolidating data in a single place—but that’s only half the story. Optimised for back-office transaction processing and operational process support, ERP systems lack the agility to support complex financial processes.

Commoditisation and shrinking profit margins are the challenges facing manufacturers and distributors today. They also have to protect their market shares in the high competitive global environment. Therefore, they increasingly turn to service offerings in order to stand out from the other competitors.  

Companies that are either planning to purchase an IT software or in the process of implementing one cannot overlook the due diligence process. Many organisations either underestimate the importance of conducting due diligence or fail to gather all the relevant information to support their decision making.

CIOs cannot afford to ignore disruptions in technology. According to Gartner, these are the 7 future disruptive technologies that CIOs should be aware of:

The efforts of enhancing machines and devices are changing the entire world we live in. Along with IoT, Machine-to-Machine communicationholds great promise in helping us to connect, automate and improve our lives from business, government to private individuals.

Additive manufacturing (AM) is a method of manufacturing products by adding layer upon layer of materials, navigated by a computer-aided-design (CAD) software. Sounds familiar? It is because this is also the concept of 3D printing.  

Networked Business Intelligence (BI) leverages new capabilities to truly combine the centralised and decentralised models of BI, delivering the best aspects of both: end-user self-service without analytical silos. It is a new approach to analytics based on the idea that trusted and well governed data is not at odds with speed and ease of use.