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News Release from: iTx Marketing Services
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 25 October 2001
Info@: a new forum for information
management
Over two days in London in November there will be hundreds of free seminars, keynotes, round tables and opportunities to understand more about IT infrastructure from a corporate perspective
Directors of manufacturing companies have long ceased to get excited about new IT concepts After years and years of long implementation cycles for CAD, PDM, ERP and, for some, CRM, their business issues are relatively unchanged
Concerns about the global economy, exchange rates and international competition seem to be as strong as they were twenty years ago.
While these infrastructure investments have created business improvement the long IT deployments and often questionable ROI tend to leave them sceptical.
In this climate along comes e-business.
A laudable vision of integrating their disparate systems and of making all the information and business processes available to employees, suppliers and customers through an intranet, an extranet or the internet.
Here we go again! echoes from the boardroom.
Why should the IT community get the attention and scarce investment resources now? The simple answer is a question of survival in a new world economic order.
The new debate is not about design, inventory or product management.
Neither is it about financial control or overall performance.
It's about whether manufacturing businesses as we know them are going to be around or not.
Having an infrastructure for e-business is critical for that survival.
Itūs about building on the hard work of the last twenty years and leveraging past investments for future gain.
The big push now is to get control of all those information assets and release the information to those people who need it, inside and outside the organisation.
Fortunately the internet explosion has done one thing for us and that is to establish a universal tool for accessing information.
The all-pervasive web browser and its supporting technologies create a global access medium to manage transactions on an internal, external, national and international basis.
The tough call for manufacturing businesses is putting together the multitude of systems and creating an e-business infrastructure.
That's a serious business and tha's where info@ comes in.
Info@ is a new senior management forum which tackles information management in a corporate context.
Over two days in London in November there will be hundreds of free seminars, keynotes, round tables and opportunities to understand more about IT infrastructure from a corporate perspective.
A dedicated Advice Centre hosted by Strategy Partners will focus on issues in manufacturing businesses offering free advice and consultancy.
The focus is on Content Management.
Capturing, creating, storing, managing and delivering information on an enterprise scale is an increasing burden in todayūs net based businesses.
Effective records management, audit trails and business process management are essential for control and for statutory and regulatory compliance.
It is crucial that the right information is available to the people who need it at the right time and that outdated information is archived or destroyed.
Getting control of the totality of the information is a tough job but the latest tools streamline this process in a way that was difficult to conceive of until now.
Info@ is at the International Centre, Hammersmith, London on 20th and 21st November.
To review the programme of activities visit www.info2001.org now and build you own schedule of sessions for the two days.
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