One of the hidden benefits of using concurrent users is the ability to spread your usage across multiple time-zones without having to increase license usage. For global companies, this can result in large license savings where plants in Asia are active while the ones in North America are “sleeping.”

Maintaining Clean Data in a large testing environmentA global manufacturer of adhesive paper is in the process of redesigning their ERP system to both become more customer-centric and leverage a new tax structure. The decision to pursue a best of breed approach has resulted in a testing environment of over a dozen highly integrated applications that must be setup with identical data sets. Reference data (includes things like customer type, country codes, buyer codes, units of measure, item type, etc) needs to be consistent between all the applications else the applications will turn up errors when sending data between them.The nature of some of this data is apt to change during the course of the project and even once the project goes live. As such, it is important to drive the business to develop the best data possible and publish a versioned set of this data so all applications can remain consistent. As testing is performed and requests to have the data changed come in, it is important to continue keep the applications...

A manufacturer of LED based lighting systems recently implemented Eagle RF Express, an inventory barcoding system. In order to make the system effective, there are some very basic non-technical things that need to occur in the shipping area in order to support the system.