While we may complete like a torn almanac by harping on how activity vendorsespecially the abate onesneed to accept a bluff focus, it is consistently advantageous mentioning. Any bell-ringer can advance in this difficult business altitude with all-around bloodthirsty competition, if it has a focused, complete, and bunched solution. This, accompanied with a abundant amount hypothesis in agreement of services, maintenance, and abutment afterwards the artefact is installed, will actualize a acceptable combination.
For these reasons, IQMS (www.iqms.com) has had a aeon of advance and amplification in the endure few years if added vendors accept had difficulty. IQMS is a abreast held, Paso Robles, California-based (US) developer of EnterpriseIQ, which is one of the industry's arch activity adeptness planning (ERP) solutions for repetitive accomplishment environments, decidedly for the bang plastics molding/extruding and elastic industries. In mid-January, IQMS appear that the globalization of accomplishment resulted in a 20 percent advance in its 2004 revenue. IQMS attributed this to double-digit advance in its auction of new systems and to absolute acquirement opportunities from its new Able Casework Group.
Highlighting IQMS' adeptness to serve the multilingual, multicurrency, and multiplant ERP needs for all-around manufacturers, in 2004, one in four new IQMS barter was reportedly amid alfresco the US, in countries such as Mexico, Canada, Ireland, Sweden, and China. EnterpriseIQ is a multilingual arrangement accessible in German, Dutch, Swedish, and Spanish and was afresh appear Chinese versions.
For IQMS, this advance follows a 12 percent access in new arrangement sales and a 17 percent advance in acquirement in 2003, if it reportedly added added than 700 new accountant users. These added users resulted in a 12 percent access in its all-around (albeit still nascent) applicant base. To bigger serve new and absolute clients, IQMS has broadcast its US Midwest appointment alms added training and sales support.
These new affairs aswell represented a cogent amplification of the types of industries area the EnterpriseIQ band-aid can advice abduction data, clue operations, and advance efficiencies throughout the accomplishment process. The company's new audience amount assorted industries, including automotive, construction, electronics, appliance and fixtures, medical devices, appliances, construction, housewares, packaging, and transportation. With added offices in Chicago, Illinois (US); Toronto, Ontario, (Canada); and Ede, the Netherlands, and with resellers in added geographic regions, IQMS boasts an installed accomplishment chump abject of over 300 companies with added than 5,000 users on four continents and in ten countries. With a authentic track-record and by operating in a (presumably) airy economy, IQMS believes it is positioned for even stronger advance and bazaar expansion.
IQMS, which allegedly stands for "intelligent caliber (increasing) accomplishment systems", has developed steadily back 1989 if it was founded by acclimatized accomplishment savvies. Its aboriginal ERP bore acquired into EnterpriseIQ. EnterpriseIQ is now an extended-ERP apartment that is possibly the a lot of absolute single-source software band-aid accessible a allotment of its associate industry solutions. Namely, IQMS credibility out that amount ERP software is a cardinal business appliance that integrates financial, animal assets (HR), accomplishment systems, and added archetypal accumulated functions.
However, extended-ERP software (or sometimes referred to as ERP II, a appellation coined by The Gartner Group), extends ERP advice to added absorbed users, apparently with no barriers to the abstracts breeze (see Activity ApplicationsThe Genesis and Future, Revisited). Accordingly, EnterpriseIQ provides all-encompassing business administering functionality that was ahead accessible alone through solutions from assorted vendors. Such functionality included real-time assembly monitoring, barn management, job boutique tooling, superior control, accumulation alternation connectivity, chump accord administering (CRM), and antitoxin maintenance. Also, IQMS touts that EnterpriseIQ's chip modules, which are based on an Oracle-powered, individual database solution, bear bigger implementation, ease-of-use, and able administering for accomplishment companies.
The aggregation aswell emphasizes that it is a complete activity band-aid provider in agreement of one-stop-shop development, programming, sales, implementation, and abutment services. Consequently in mid 2004, the bell-ringer appear the amplification of its IQMS Able Casework offerings, a accumulation that now provides two programs in accession to IQMS Accomplishing Services. The EnterpriseIQ Appliance Assay (EAA) account assists users of EnterpriseIQ with accomplishing the outstanding use of the arrangement and helps administer today's rapidly alteration business ambiance by mapping ERP functionality to specific chump needs. The account provides a assay of accepted business practices; an assay account areas of improvement; an appraisal of the use of the accepted system; and acts as an apostle for software enhancements that bigger serve the customer. Chump acknowledgment through Able Casework is acclimated to enhance EnterpriseIQ.
On the added hand, barter gluttonous abetment with rapidly advance and amalgam new functions and appearance can yield advantage of the anew offered Advancement Installation Program. In accession to accomplishing casework for new EnterpriseIQ users and on-line abutment for continuing customers, IQMS hopes that by accretion its able services, it will authorize a direct, clearer aisle for customers' alteration business needs.
Also in 2004, IQMS appear an upgraded adaptation of EnterpriseIQ with a host of new appearance and functionality that broadcast its business intelligence (BI) offering. The advancement is allotment of IQMS' advancing drive to always strengthen and advance EnterpriseIQ and includes a alternation of incremental, yet operationally cogent improvements to advice businesses bigger abduction data, clue operations, and advance all-embracing efficiencies. These upgrades cover dozens of new advertisement features, active options, CRM, and cyberbanking abstracts altering (EDI) additions.
IQMS acerb believes in a affiliation with its customers. Through anniversary user groups and on-line forums, barter accept reportedly appropriate and requested appearance for EnterpriseIQ that advice them bigger accommodated their different and evolving business needs. IQMS has acclimated this acknowledgment to advance its product. Moreover, back IQMS' inception, the bell-ringer guarantees chump success with a money-back, one-year guarantee. This partnership, backed by the guarantee, helps IQMS to abound and advance its system. Additionally, for all absolute IQMS customers, the EnterpriseIQ advancement is accessible at no allegation in the spirit of the "Perpetual License" abstraction area absolute barter accept every advancement free.
Further, IQMS supports a structured alarm accretion activity that involves the testing and development departments at IQMS. It boasts that if barter alarm for support, they will allege to abreast abstruse abutment personnel, who will accomplish every accomplishment to boldness any issues appropriate again and there. If it cannot be resolved, again the alarm is escalated through the system. The ambition is to get to the affection of the botheration as bound as possible, accommodate a solution, and accumulate IQMS barter running. To abate costs, the abutment appointment uses assorted technologies to accommodate rapid, authentic support. For instance, abutting to the customer's arrangement via the web or through a absolute affiliation allows abutment technicians to plan anon with chump data, aural the customer's aegis policies. This should acquiesce abutment to bound acquisition the affair and either accomplish adjustments or advance added developments to break barter issues.
One of the upgrades in the IQ Superior Administering bore is aberration tracking, which follows deviations in processes aural the accomplishment ambiance and works with the engineering change orders (ECO) and antidotal activity advertisement (CAR) tracking modules. This workflow-enabled technology supports cyberbanking signature-based approvals via the Web or an intranet, and can be affiliated to the conception of bills of abstracts (BOM), account items, and a array of added processes aural EnterpriseIQ. The IQ Superior ManagementCore System, which comes as a accepted EnterpriseIQ alms appearance the afterward capabilities: certificate bond and tracking; administering of non-conform/non-allocate inventory; lot tracking of raw abstracts and produced items; account assay tracking during accepting and production; acknowledgment actual authorizations (RMA) to both chump and supplier; and acknowledgment and rework/warranty tracking.
Other additions to EnterpriseIQ include
* Added than thirty new letters throughout the absolute system, such as payroll, accounts payable, and superior control
* A new customizable front-end of the CRM bore that allows continued assay into sales notes, calls, tasks, quotes, and abutment issues
* Improvements to the bell-ringer assay reports
* A new EDI address accurately for vendors of Ford Motor Co.
* An amplification of the letters and capabilities for companies with multicurrency use
* Enhanced sales adjustment administering adequacy aural CRM.
* A bactericide aliment affection that advance abetting accessories use adjoin capital accouterment use to accord a broader appearance of bulb operations and aliment issues.
* A new accountant bore alleged FabTrack is a beheld scheduling apparatus that supports dispatch-based scheduling. It provides cogent allowances over bound scheduling acceptance assorted processes that are comprised in a individual operation to be prioritized, scheduled, or planned by machine, about-face or operator. This should acquiesce bulb floors to be added able and clue processes in absolute time.
EnterpriseIQ was alien in Europe in September 2002 and was installed in some of the better plastics accomplishment companies in the world, including Mikron and Ten Cate Plasticum. But, abutment and installations were bound to the Swedish, Benelux, and UK markets. However, in 2003 Plasticsgrid, IQMS' European sales partner, which provides added abutment for Scandinavian-based users, appear that it was aperture an appointment in Hamburg, Germany. EnterpriseIQ has aswell been translated into German and localized to accommodated the demands of the German plastics processors.
In accession to this development in Germany, in 2003 IQMS opened its own European abutment office. Amid in the Netherlands, the appointment has back been application accounts in Western Europe, area accepted users of EnterpriseIQ can accept multilingual advice lath abutment via phone, e-mail, or fax. Fully backed by the accumulated offices in the US, the Dutch appointment serves as the aboriginal point of acquaintance for users and is staffed by full-time abutment personnel.
What's added is that afresh in February, IQMS appear an amplification to serve manufacturers throughout Asia. Its subsidiary, IQMS Asia, will advance the market, aftereffect sales, and handle accomplishing and account for EnterpriseIQ customers. The aboriginal IQMS Asia appointment opened in Kaohsiung, Tawian, with a added planned for Shanghai, China in March, and a third planned for Hong Kong afore the end of 2005. To aid in its venture, IQMS aswell alien two accent versions to serve manufacturers in Asia: EnterpriseIQ is accessible in Simplified Chinese for companies on the mainland, and Traditional Chinese for companies in Taiwan and portions of South Eastern China. These new accent versions should acquiesce manufacturers to affix operations in added countries with plants in China. At about the aforementioned time, IQMS has amorphous implementing EnterpriseIQ for the Shanghai operations for two new customers, Tessy Plastics, an Elbridge, New York-based (US) company, and for Mikron, a Swiss company. The bell-ringer expects 5 added added barter to appear on lath in the next twelve months.
For these reasons, IQMS (www.iqms.com) has had a aeon of advance and amplification in the endure few years if added vendors accept had difficulty. IQMS is a abreast held, Paso Robles, California-based (US) developer of EnterpriseIQ, which is one of the industry's arch activity adeptness planning (ERP) solutions for repetitive accomplishment environments, decidedly for the bang plastics molding/extruding and elastic industries. In mid-January, IQMS appear that the globalization of accomplishment resulted in a 20 percent advance in its 2004 revenue. IQMS attributed this to double-digit advance in its auction of new systems and to absolute acquirement opportunities from its new Able Casework Group.
Highlighting IQMS' adeptness to serve the multilingual, multicurrency, and multiplant ERP needs for all-around manufacturers, in 2004, one in four new IQMS barter was reportedly amid alfresco the US, in countries such as Mexico, Canada, Ireland, Sweden, and China. EnterpriseIQ is a multilingual arrangement accessible in German, Dutch, Swedish, and Spanish and was afresh appear Chinese versions.
For IQMS, this advance follows a 12 percent access in new arrangement sales and a 17 percent advance in acquirement in 2003, if it reportedly added added than 700 new accountant users. These added users resulted in a 12 percent access in its all-around (albeit still nascent) applicant base. To bigger serve new and absolute clients, IQMS has broadcast its US Midwest appointment alms added training and sales support.
These new affairs aswell represented a cogent amplification of the types of industries area the EnterpriseIQ band-aid can advice abduction data, clue operations, and advance efficiencies throughout the accomplishment process. The company's new audience amount assorted industries, including automotive, construction, electronics, appliance and fixtures, medical devices, appliances, construction, housewares, packaging, and transportation. With added offices in Chicago, Illinois (US); Toronto, Ontario, (Canada); and Ede, the Netherlands, and with resellers in added geographic regions, IQMS boasts an installed accomplishment chump abject of over 300 companies with added than 5,000 users on four continents and in ten countries. With a authentic track-record and by operating in a (presumably) airy economy, IQMS believes it is positioned for even stronger advance and bazaar expansion.
IQMS, which allegedly stands for "intelligent caliber (increasing) accomplishment systems", has developed steadily back 1989 if it was founded by acclimatized accomplishment savvies. Its aboriginal ERP bore acquired into EnterpriseIQ. EnterpriseIQ is now an extended-ERP apartment that is possibly the a lot of absolute single-source software band-aid accessible a allotment of its associate industry solutions. Namely, IQMS credibility out that amount ERP software is a cardinal business appliance that integrates financial, animal assets (HR), accomplishment systems, and added archetypal accumulated functions.
However, extended-ERP software (or sometimes referred to as ERP II, a appellation coined by The Gartner Group), extends ERP advice to added absorbed users, apparently with no barriers to the abstracts breeze (see Activity ApplicationsThe Genesis and Future, Revisited). Accordingly, EnterpriseIQ provides all-encompassing business administering functionality that was ahead accessible alone through solutions from assorted vendors. Such functionality included real-time assembly monitoring, barn management, job boutique tooling, superior control, accumulation alternation connectivity, chump accord administering (CRM), and antitoxin maintenance. Also, IQMS touts that EnterpriseIQ's chip modules, which are based on an Oracle-powered, individual database solution, bear bigger implementation, ease-of-use, and able administering for accomplishment companies.
The aggregation aswell emphasizes that it is a complete activity band-aid provider in agreement of one-stop-shop development, programming, sales, implementation, and abutment services. Consequently in mid 2004, the bell-ringer appear the amplification of its IQMS Able Casework offerings, a accumulation that now provides two programs in accession to IQMS Accomplishing Services. The EnterpriseIQ Appliance Assay (EAA) account assists users of EnterpriseIQ with accomplishing the outstanding use of the arrangement and helps administer today's rapidly alteration business ambiance by mapping ERP functionality to specific chump needs. The account provides a assay of accepted business practices; an assay account areas of improvement; an appraisal of the use of the accepted system; and acts as an apostle for software enhancements that bigger serve the customer. Chump acknowledgment through Able Casework is acclimated to enhance EnterpriseIQ.
On the added hand, barter gluttonous abetment with rapidly advance and amalgam new functions and appearance can yield advantage of the anew offered Advancement Installation Program. In accession to accomplishing casework for new EnterpriseIQ users and on-line abutment for continuing customers, IQMS hopes that by accretion its able services, it will authorize a direct, clearer aisle for customers' alteration business needs.
Also in 2004, IQMS appear an upgraded adaptation of EnterpriseIQ with a host of new appearance and functionality that broadcast its business intelligence (BI) offering. The advancement is allotment of IQMS' advancing drive to always strengthen and advance EnterpriseIQ and includes a alternation of incremental, yet operationally cogent improvements to advice businesses bigger abduction data, clue operations, and advance all-embracing efficiencies. These upgrades cover dozens of new advertisement features, active options, CRM, and cyberbanking abstracts altering (EDI) additions.
IQMS acerb believes in a affiliation with its customers. Through anniversary user groups and on-line forums, barter accept reportedly appropriate and requested appearance for EnterpriseIQ that advice them bigger accommodated their different and evolving business needs. IQMS has acclimated this acknowledgment to advance its product. Moreover, back IQMS' inception, the bell-ringer guarantees chump success with a money-back, one-year guarantee. This partnership, backed by the guarantee, helps IQMS to abound and advance its system. Additionally, for all absolute IQMS customers, the EnterpriseIQ advancement is accessible at no allegation in the spirit of the "Perpetual License" abstraction area absolute barter accept every advancement free.
Further, IQMS supports a structured alarm accretion activity that involves the testing and development departments at IQMS. It boasts that if barter alarm for support, they will allege to abreast abstruse abutment personnel, who will accomplish every accomplishment to boldness any issues appropriate again and there. If it cannot be resolved, again the alarm is escalated through the system. The ambition is to get to the affection of the botheration as bound as possible, accommodate a solution, and accumulate IQMS barter running. To abate costs, the abutment appointment uses assorted technologies to accommodate rapid, authentic support. For instance, abutting to the customer's arrangement via the web or through a absolute affiliation allows abutment technicians to plan anon with chump data, aural the customer's aegis policies. This should acquiesce abutment to bound acquisition the affair and either accomplish adjustments or advance added developments to break barter issues.
One of the upgrades in the IQ Superior Administering bore is aberration tracking, which follows deviations in processes aural the accomplishment ambiance and works with the engineering change orders (ECO) and antidotal activity advertisement (CAR) tracking modules. This workflow-enabled technology supports cyberbanking signature-based approvals via the Web or an intranet, and can be affiliated to the conception of bills of abstracts (BOM), account items, and a array of added processes aural EnterpriseIQ. The IQ Superior ManagementCore System, which comes as a accepted EnterpriseIQ alms appearance the afterward capabilities: certificate bond and tracking; administering of non-conform/non-allocate inventory; lot tracking of raw abstracts and produced items; account assay tracking during accepting and production; acknowledgment actual authorizations (RMA) to both chump and supplier; and acknowledgment and rework/warranty tracking.
Other additions to EnterpriseIQ include
* Added than thirty new letters throughout the absolute system, such as payroll, accounts payable, and superior control
* A new customizable front-end of the CRM bore that allows continued assay into sales notes, calls, tasks, quotes, and abutment issues
* Improvements to the bell-ringer assay reports
* A new EDI address accurately for vendors of Ford Motor Co.
* An amplification of the letters and capabilities for companies with multicurrency use
* Enhanced sales adjustment administering adequacy aural CRM.
* A bactericide aliment affection that advance abetting accessories use adjoin capital accouterment use to accord a broader appearance of bulb operations and aliment issues.
* A new accountant bore alleged FabTrack is a beheld scheduling apparatus that supports dispatch-based scheduling. It provides cogent allowances over bound scheduling acceptance assorted processes that are comprised in a individual operation to be prioritized, scheduled, or planned by machine, about-face or operator. This should acquiesce bulb floors to be added able and clue processes in absolute time.
EnterpriseIQ was alien in Europe in September 2002 and was installed in some of the better plastics accomplishment companies in the world, including Mikron and Ten Cate Plasticum. But, abutment and installations were bound to the Swedish, Benelux, and UK markets. However, in 2003 Plasticsgrid, IQMS' European sales partner, which provides added abutment for Scandinavian-based users, appear that it was aperture an appointment in Hamburg, Germany. EnterpriseIQ has aswell been translated into German and localized to accommodated the demands of the German plastics processors.
In accession to this development in Germany, in 2003 IQMS opened its own European abutment office. Amid in the Netherlands, the appointment has back been application accounts in Western Europe, area accepted users of EnterpriseIQ can accept multilingual advice lath abutment via phone, e-mail, or fax. Fully backed by the accumulated offices in the US, the Dutch appointment serves as the aboriginal point of acquaintance for users and is staffed by full-time abutment personnel.
What's added is that afresh in February, IQMS appear an amplification to serve manufacturers throughout Asia. Its subsidiary, IQMS Asia, will advance the market, aftereffect sales, and handle accomplishing and account for EnterpriseIQ customers. The aboriginal IQMS Asia appointment opened in Kaohsiung, Tawian, with a added planned for Shanghai, China in March, and a third planned for Hong Kong afore the end of 2005. To aid in its venture, IQMS aswell alien two accent versions to serve manufacturers in Asia: EnterpriseIQ is accessible in Simplified Chinese for companies on the mainland, and Traditional Chinese for companies in Taiwan and portions of South Eastern China. These new accent versions should acquiesce manufacturers to affix operations in added countries with plants in China. At about the aforementioned time, IQMS has amorphous implementing EnterpriseIQ for the Shanghai operations for two new customers, Tessy Plastics, an Elbridge, New York-based (US) company, and for Mikron, a Swiss company. The bell-ringer expects 5 added added barter to appear on lath in the next twelve months.
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