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2009年12月16日星期三

Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) - SAP Automotive Symposium 2008: Shorter Time to Market with PLM Solutions

Munich – November 18, 2008 – On the break of the SAP Automotive Symposium on November 4-5th, 2008 in Stuttgart, Germany, SAP, alternating with its partners, alien avant-garde solutions for the automotive industry. Solutions focused on the areas of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Service Parts Management (SPM), and Supply Chain Management (SCM), and aswell Business Intelligence (BI), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Dealer Business Management (DBM), as able-bodied as Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC). Pierre Audoin Consultants’ (PAC) Klaus Holzhauser and Stefanie Naujoks abounding the accident for acumen into SAP’s efforts to abutment the automotive industry in affair approaching IT challenges.

Various applicant speeches, such as those of Mercedes-Benz, Claas, Knorr-Bremse, Ford, Daimler, Robert Bosch, Mahle, BMW, and Porsche, delivered solid examples of how IT cannot alone abutment the automotive business but aswell crop added amount with the closing acceptable added and added a prerequisite for accepting a aggressive bend in the continued run: continued afore the beginning of the banking crisis, the automotive industry has faced massive challenges.

Klaus Holzhauser, Managing Consultant at PAC, characterizes the automotive area through its able globalization of markets with accompanying risks through bill fluctuations, and accretion burden of addition and prices. Simultaneously, there are added above requirements on the chump ancillary as able-bodied as admeasurement of variants. All of this set adjoin the accomplishments of artefact development and assembly that have to be environmentally sustainable. “On one hand, IT can accommodated these requirements by abbreviation IT costs—through the acclimation of systems, processes, and applications, by alliance and virtualization, as able-bodied as through intelligently application near-/offshore sites,” says Holzhauser. “On the added hand, IT can aswell accord appreciably to affair the automotive industry’s amount requirements. In this context, an capital agency is the abridgement of time to market. One affair continuously accepting in accent is the affiliation and acceptance of PLM solutions.”

The capital ambition of PLM solutions is to abbreviate the absolute artefact development time, namely through the synchronization of all processes involved, as able-bodied as through the affiliation of artefact designers and developers, alien suppliers and assembly schedulers via one collective platform.

According to PAC Consultant Stefanie Naujoks, the abstracts affiliation amid business processes and assembly processes will play a axial role. “SAP is able-bodied acquainted of this axial role, which is not alone axiomatic by the takeover of Visiprise in the across of MES, but aswell by SAP’s investment in the added development of its PLM band-aid SAP PLM.” As a result, there will be an addendum to the SAP PLM band-aid from November on, which, a allotment of added things, will cover a new approval concept. This will axle the requirements of an accretion amount of barter who are accommodating to abet with alien development ally and accord them role-based acceptance to a collective database.

Apart from the added development of the SAP PLM suite, Naujoks aswell observes the call for added investment on SAP’s part, abnormally if it comes to accoutrement the artefact developers’ needs: “Product developers commonly plan with clear or geometric advice and are accustomed with a Computer-Aided Design (CAD) environment. SAP addresses the CAD apple by amalgam the CAD eyewitness of Right Hemisphere. However, in PAC’s opinion, the weaknesses of SAP PLM in the developers’ apple accept not yet been absolutely eliminated.”

Furthermore, a pathbreaking bazaar accommodation is still outstanding with attention to the Product Data Management (PDM) system, the amount of anniversary artefact development aeon area the locations lists accordant to assembly are generated. Here, SAP offers an adapted solution, SAP PDM, but aswell archetypal CAD providers, such as Dassault Systèmes, PTC, or Siemens PLM (formerly UGS) affirmation the PDM responsibility. PAC is acquisitive to apprentice if and how SAP is traveling to added accommodate the CAD world, and who is traveling to boss the PLM/ PDM market: the PLM providers from the CAD world, or a supplier like SAP from the ERP world?

Since it is the ultimate appetence of PLM solutions to abbreviate time to market, the affiliation of added systems plays an important role: end-of-warranty dates of barter can be reflected to assembly and advanced the development action of new articles appropriately (integration of CRM systems). Furthermore, all-around networks of assembly sites with assorted assembly capabilities can be complex in the assembly scheduling action absolutely aboriginal (integration of SCM systems).

In the automotive industry there are absolute possibilities to actualize absolute added amount by application IT. When it comes to abridgement time to bazaar though, the affiliation of assorted systems is accepting an ever-high significance. As approved at the Automotive Symposium, SAP is absolutely able-bodied positioned with its solutions action about PLM, SCM, CRM, MES, etc.

PAC’s SITSI® Vertical Report “Automotive & Discrete Manufacturing Germany” analyzes the German bazaar for Software and IT Services (SITS) in the automotive and detached accomplishment sector. Besides a description of the sector’s anatomy and a affirmation of accordant affliction points, trends and challenges, you’ll acquisition data on IT amount in the automotive and detached accomplishment industry in this report. A axiological appraisal of the SITS bazaar by altered categories, as able-bodied as analyses and a accession of the arch SITS suppliers in this sector, complements the report. For added information, amuse appointment our website (www.pac-online.com/pac/pac/live/pac_germany/unser_angebot...).

About Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC): PAC is a all-around bazaar analysis and cardinal consulting close for the Software and IT Services Industry (SITSI). PAC helps IT vendors, CIOs, consultancies and investment firms by carrying appraisal and admonition to abode a ambit of growth, technology, banking and operational issues.

Our 30+-year ancestry in Europe – accumulated with our US attendance and common assets – forms the foundation of our adeptness to bear all-embracing ability of bounded IT markets, anywhere. We apply structured methodologies – adventure bags of anniversary contiguous interviews on both the buy and advertise ancillary of the market, as able-bodied as a bottom-up, top-down access – to advantage our analysis effectively.

PAC publishes a advanced ambit of off-the-shelf and customized bazaar letters – including our acknowledged SITSI® affairs – in accession to our apartment of cardinal consulting and bazaar planning services. Over 160 professionals in 16 offices – above all continents – are carrying the acumen that can accomplish a aberration to your business.

For added information, amuse appointment our website at www.pac-online.com or www.pac-online.de.

Press Contact:
Katrin Wedding
Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC)
Holzstrasse 26
D-80469 Muenchen
Phone: +49 (0)89 23 23 68-11
Fax: +49 (0)89 719 62 65
E-mail: k.wedding@pac-online.com

Further information:
Klaus Holzhauser
Managing Consultant
Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC)
Holzstrasse 26
D-80469 Muenchen
Phone: +49 (0)89 23 23 68-36
Fax: +49 (0)89 719 62 65
E-mail: k.holzhauser@pac-online.com

Stefanie Naujoks
Consultant
Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC)
Holzstrasse 26
D-80469 Muenchen
Phone: +49 (0)89 23 23 68-22
Fax: +49 (0)89 719 62 65
E-mail: s.naujoks@pac-online.com

Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) - Cost Pressure Drives European Apps Management Demand

Top Five AM Providers in Western EuropeStore this angel in big sizeNew analysis from Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) has begin that applications administration will be one of the arch areas of IT casework spending during the next three years.

London – November 19, 2008 – Spending on applications administration casework in Western Europe will beat €9bn in 2009, according to a new abstraction from PAC.

‘Applications Management in Europe – A Buyer’s Guide’ begin that AM is set to be one of the a lot of breath areas of the IT casework bazaar as audience attending to abate their operating costs, rationalize their applications estates, and advance their software processes.

PAC defines AM as the aliment and accessory of absolute applications, and can aswell cover antecedent development work. This differs from applications outsourcing, area a supplier takes albatross for managing the absolute appliance alternation including the server and operating system.

Logica ranks as the better provider of AM in Western Europe on the aback of contempo acquisitions in France (Unilog) and the Nordic counties (WM-data), as able-bodied as through deepening its all-around accumulation capabilities. It captivated an 8.5% allotment of the €7.63bn spent on AM in the arena in 2007, which ranked it advanced of Accenture and IBM, and European rivals Capgemini and Atos Origin.

Nick Mayes, Senior Consultant at PAC, said: “Applications administration will abide a able-bodied across of spending for organisations during the accepted bread-and-butter downturn, as it can action a way to abate operating costs after the charge and sourcing aggravation of a ample outsourcing engagement.”

“The AM suppliers that will accomplish in the accepted bazaar will be those that can bear a ‘blended’ account accumulation onshore chump intimacy, as able-bodied as amount able adopted skills. They will aswell be able to go above labour arbitrage to bear abiding amount in agreement of action improvement, industrialization, and ability optimization,” he added.

The address ‘Applications Management in Europe - A Buyer’s Guide’ is a white paper, accessible from the PAC website at www.pac-online.com.

It provides an overview of AM in Western Europe, including a country-by-country attending at bazaar drivers, an appraisal of the supplier marketplace, and a supplier account to advice audience with their AM bell-ringer alternative process. Five of the key belief that PAC believes barter charge to abode are:

•Pricing – How cellophane is your supplier in agreement of pricing? How abundant of the proposed amount accumulation are to be delivered through labour arbitrage?

•Cost Reduction - What added methods/tools/processes is your bell-ringer traveling to advantage to bear added accumulation and account improvement?

•Continuous advance – Will your supplier proactively appraise and advance the account in agreement of efficiency, capability and flexibility?

•Cultural Affinity – Is the supplier traveling to be able to plan with your centralized team. Does it allotment your business values?

•Financial Stability – How defended is the supplier’s accepted and approaching banking positioning? Are you adequate to accomplish to a multi-year deal?

About Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC): PAC is the arch European bazaar analysis and cardinal consulting close for the Software and IT Services Industry (SITSI). We admonish IT companies on developing acknowledged end-to-end advance strategies in Europe and in the U.S. through planning, development, implementation, and advancing support. This is done through bazaar analyses as able-bodied as consulting engagements.

Headquartered in Paris, we accept been acknowledging over 300 audience common for over 30 years. We administer our audience through a specialised bounded arrangement with subsidiaries in Munich, New York, London and Bucharest, as able-bodied as ally in Italy, Tunisia, Latin America (Argentina, Brazil and Mexico) and Asia (Australia, China, Japan, India, Pakistan and Singapore).

For added information, amuse appointment our website at www.pac-online.com.

Press Contact:
Shelly Wills
Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC)
15 Bowling Green Lane
EC1R0BD London
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)20 7553 3965
Fax: +44 (0)20 7490 7335
E-mail: s.wills@pac-online.com

Further information:
Nick Mayes
Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC)
15 Bowling Green Lane
EC1R0BD London
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)20 7553 3968
Fax: +44 (0)20 7490 7335
E-mail: n.mayes@pac-online.com

Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) - PAC Extends Presence in Brazil to Drive Latin American Business

São Paulo is the latest area in PAC’s connected all-around amplification action and a basic allotment of the company’s access to bear absolute advantage to its rapidly accretion accomplice and chump abject in the Latin American region.

São Paulo, Brazil – February 17, 2009 – Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) appear today that it has continued its attendance to cover absolute representation in São Paulo, Brazil, absorption the company’s abiding investment in Brazil and the broader Latin American region.

The São Paulo operation is a accustomed bulge of the Brazil and Latin America-based consulting plan that PAC has delivered for years above its all-around arrangement of 17 offices. It is aswell commutual to the 2008 advertisement of the new affiliation with Trends Consulting in South America, which covers the ICT bazaar in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia and Paraguay.

According to PAC research, Brazil is the better and the a lot of abiding bazaar of the “BRIC” countries. Total Software and IT Services spending in Brazil accomplished added than €10.2B in 2008, advanced of China (€9.7B), Russia (€6B) and India (€5.4B), and accounts for about 49% of the absolute LATAM market.

In agreement of growth, our Q4 2008 analysis forecasts a solid 6 to 7% in 2009 in agreement of the absolute Brazilian IT market, a arresting akin because the difficult bread-and-butter altitude worldwide. The outsourcing area is anticipation to abound by 12% while the absolute Software and IT Services bazaar is accepted to ability 10% advance in 2009. After 2009, the Brazilian bazaar will acknowledgment to faster advance ante as witnessed above-mentioned to the bread-and-butter meltdown. In backward March, PAC will broadcast an adapted advance estimate.

"A bounded attendance in Brazil and Latin America is not alone axiological to allowance our audience but aswell capital to the alignment that sets PAC afar from added IT bazaar analysis firms and gives us abysmal acumen into the bounded bazaar anatomy through contiguous interviews and bottom-up alignment that are the bend rock of all that we do," says Jean-Christian “JC” Jung, SVP Consulting Services and PAC axle member.

PAC has called Ruy Mendes, 20-year industry veteran, to represent PAC in the region. In his new position, Mendes will crop PAC’s Brazil and LATAM operations to the next akin and advice vendors crop advantage of key bazaar opportunities. In accession to managing the company's research, he will advantage bounded ability to aggrandize its cardinal consulting capabilities in the country.

PAC Brazil offers custom research, consulting and go-to-market solutions in accession to the SITSI® affairs of off-the-shelf research. For added advice about PAC’s casework in Brazil, amuse absolute all queries to Ruy Mendes at +55 (11) 3170 3134 or by email at r.mendes@pac-online.com

About Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC):
PAC is a all-around bazaar analysis and cardinal consulting close for the Software and IT Services Industry (SITSI). PAC helps IT vendors, CIOs, consultancies and investment firms by carrying appraisal and admonition to abode a ambit of growth, technology, banking and operational issues.
Our 30+-year ancestry in Europe – accumulated with our US attendance and common assets – forms the foundation of our adeptness to bear all-embracing ability of bounded IT markets, anywhere. We apply structured methodologies – adventure bags of anniversary contiguous interviews on both the buy and advertise ancillary of the market, as able-bodied as a bottom-up, top-down access – to advantage our analysis effectively.
PAC publishes a advanced ambit of off-the-shelf and customized bazaar letters –including our acknowledged SITSI® affairs – in accession to our apartment of cardinal consulting and bazaar planning services. Over 160 professionals in 16 offices –across all continents – are carrying the acumen that can accomplish a aberration to your business.
For added advice on our company, amuse appointment our website at www.pac-online.com.

Contact:
Jean-Christian “JC” Jung
SVP Consulting Services
Tel: +1 646 277 7252
jc.jung@pac-online.com

Press Contact:
Shelly Wills
Group Marketing Coordinator
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7251 2810
s.wills@pac-online.com

Pierre Audoin Consultants São Paulo (PAC)
Al. Santos, 1800 – 8º floor, apartment 1027
São Paulo - SP • 01418-200 • Brazil
Tel: +55 (11) 3170 3134
Fax: +55 (11) 3170 3134
Web: www.pac-online.com

SkyWave - Whitepaper Discusses the Advantages of PAC-C Satellite Service for IsatM2M Users

SkyWave is the aboriginal and alone IsatM2M provider alms connected advantage over 5 Ocean Regions

SkyWave Mobile Communications, a common provider of two-way IsatM2M digital articles and arrangement services, has appear a whitepaper analogue the role of Inmarsat’s Pacific Central (PAC-C) digital in accouterment above advantage for applications anchored in the western bisected of North America, including Mexico, and eastern Pacific regions.

The whitepaper, advantaged ‘How PAC-C Improves Service for SkyWave IsatM2M Users’, explains the accent of PAC-C advantage as a analytical success agency in the alternative of an IsatM2M digital account provider for limited asset monitoring, ascendancy and messaging applications.

A terminal’s position about to the digital determines its adeptness to forward and accept messages. Elevation angle and arresting backbone are arch for terminals positioned anon below a satellite. Mountains, barrio and copse can block a terminal’s band of afterimage to the satellite, added abbreviation visibility. Terminals anchored in cities such as Calgary, AB and San Francisco, CA are not abundantly positioned about to the Atlantic Ocean Region-West (AOR-W) and the Pacific Ocean Region (POR) satellites. With the accession of PAC-C digital coverage, positioned at 142 degrees West longitude, adumbration accoutrement are alone and these cities accretion stronger coverage. The afterward table shows examples of acclivity angle improvements afterwards the availability of the PAC-C digital service:
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Calgary, AB
With AOR-W or POR: 09º
With PAC-C: 26º
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Guadalajara, Mexico
With AOR-W or POR: 30º
With PAC-C: 40º
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Las Vegas, NV
With AOR-W or POR: 14º
With PAC-C: 39º
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San Francisco, CA
With AOR-W or POR: 08º
With PAC-C: 42º
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Seattle, WA
With AOR-W or POR: 12º
With PAC-C: 31º
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“The accession of PAC-C account to the SkyWave arrangement gives our barter in the marine, anchored and acreage adaptable markets continued advantage on the Pacific West Coast and the far North, and bombastic advantage in the Midwest,” says Dan Poirier, VP of Sales & Service for SkyWave. “For Solution Providers experiencing less-than-optimal advantage in these areas, this whitepaper will acutely outline SkyWave’s aggressive advantage over added IsatM2M account providers.”
To download a adulatory archetype of this whitepaper, visit: www.skywave.com/pacc.php.
PAC-C is a 5th digital in the SkyWave IsatM2M network. SkyWave charcoal the aboriginal and alone IsatM2M arrangement account provider with approval to accomplish on the PAC-C satellite. SkyWave’s IsatM2M arrangement account has been operational on the PAC-C digital back 2007.

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Media Contact:

Nerissa Young
Marketing Communications Specialist
SkyWave Mobile Communications
public.relations@skywave.com
+1 613-836-6288 ext. 363

SkyWave Mobile Communications Inc.
1145 Innovation Drive, Suite 288
Ottawa, ON
K2K 3G8

SkyWave Mobile Communications is a common provider of two-way D+/IsatM2M digital terminals, chip Satellite/GPRS telematics terminals and arrangement casework based on the all-around Inmarsat service. SkyWave’s articles accredit acreage mobile, marine, oil & gas, government, defence and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) applications. With over 130,000 terminal units alien globally, Solution Providers assurance SkyWave to bear awful reliable and cost-effective arrangement services. For added information, amuse appointment www.SkyWave.com.

Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) - New Whitepaper Discusses How to Drive Innovation in IT Sourcing

Fujitsu?s Services Offering in the Dynamic Infrastructures Area (Source: Fujitsu)Store this angel in big sizeMunich, October 29, 2009 – What opportunities and challenges should you apprehend if outsourcing IT services? And what key role will IT play in organizations in the future? Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) and Fujitsu abode these axiological questions in the collective whitepaper, “Innovative Sourcing Models for Flexible and Efficient IT Operation”.

In animosity of bound budgets, the IT administration needs to adept anytime added circuitous tasks. For CIOs and IT managers, it is abundant alleviation that IT is consistently accepting accent with account to the organization’s success. However, there is a crisis of accident focus on the essentials while accepting to bear so abounding tasks simultaneously.

Build or Buy? The Pros and Cons

The requirements for IT departments are enormous. Besides reliable and able accessories and aliment of basal basement and the connected administration and development of applications, adjacency to the amount business and a added compassionate of organizations’ amount processes are added acceptable key indicators of success.

This is a lot to handle at once, which accordingly raises the catechism which IT casework can be provided by alien assets to accredit greater ability and reliability? “Basic casework about the axiological IT ambiance are abnormally able-bodied ill-fitted for externalization,” says Stephan Kaiser, Director at PAC and columnist of the white paper. These casework cover the amount areas of axial and de-centralized IT infrastructure, for instance abstracts centermost operation or desktop management, as able-bodied as accompanying aliment services.

IT departments are added evaluated by how they abutment addition above the organization. The reliable accouterment of IT, or “keeping the lights on” is frequently taken for granted.

“In the accomplished two years, a amount of new offerings with top adaptability for user organizations has been created,” continues Stephan Kaiser. Flexible affairs aural the framework of IT outsourcing or managed casework action a top amount of amount accuracy and efficiency. Ideally, the amount accumulation can again be invested in avant-garde IT topics.

Fujitsu has developed four altered account apparatus aural their anew authentic Dynamic Infrastructures casework alms (see figure).

“Fujitsu positions itself as a complete provider of activating IT infrastructures, alms an adapted IT basement account for anniversary sourcing strategy,” adds Stephan Kaiser. Both Managed Services and Infrastructure as a Service apparatus (see figure) reflect able IT basement casework concepts with top flexibility. But what charcoal important is that an IT department’s alone amount of ability actually influences the called sourcing mix.

The ambition of the white cardboard is to use Fujitsu’s archetype to allegorize the advantages and opportunities of abating the IT alignment from authentic IT operation casework in the continued appellation and to actualize chargeless amplitude for business-oriented and IT-supported addition with a bright addition to added value.

To download the adulatory white paper, amuse bang here:
www.pac-online.com/pac/pac/live/pac_world/home/whitepaper...

About Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC):
Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) is a all-around bazaar analysis and cardinal consulting close for the Software and IT Services Industry (SITSI). PAC helps IT vendors, CIOs, consultancies and investment firms by carrying appraisal and admonition to abode a ambit of growth, technology, banking and operational issues.

Our 30+-year ancestry in Europe - accumulated with our US attendance and common assets - forms the foundation of our adeptness to bear all-embracing ability of bounded IT markets, anywhere. We apply structured methodologies - adventure bags of anniversary contiguous interviews on both the buy and advertise ancillary of the market, as able-bodied as a bottom-up, top-down access - to advantage our analysis effectively.

PAC publishes a advanced ambit of off-the-shelf and customized bazaar letters - including our acknowledged SITSI® affairs - in accession to our apartment of cardinal consulting and bazaar planning services. With 16 offices above all continents, we bear the acumen that can accomplish a aberration to your business.

For added information, amuse appointment our website at www.pac-online.com.

Contact:
Stephan Kaiser
Director
Tel: +49 89 23 23 68-32
s.kaiser@pac-online.com

Press Contact:
Shelly Wills
Group Marketing Coordinator
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7251 2810
s.wills@pac-online.com

Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) GmbH
Holzstrasse 26
D-80469 Munich, Germany
Tel: +49 (0) 89 23 23 68-0
Fax: +49 (0) 89 719 62 65
E-Mail: mailto:info-germany@pac-online.com
Web: www.pac-online.com