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by David R. Brousell, MA Editorial Staff   | Abstract: | MA's third annual Technology Planner will help ease your travels down the often confusing road of technology identification and evaluation. |
Acquiring the right technologies to advance the business has clearly become a critical competency for manufacturers. In just about every field of corporate endeavor — from innovation to customer service — the right technology can make the difference in speed of execution, quality, responsiveness, and a host of other metrics. This issue, Managing Automation's third annual Technology Planner, is designed to help you understand some of the key trends shaping the IT and automation landscapes, and to assist you in identifying and evaluating technology products that can enable you to excel at that critical competency. In this year's lineup of trend stories, we cover the debate on whether to invest in application suites or best-of-breed software products, what the rampant discounting in the enterprise software market means for you, how to pick hardware and storage platforms, and the new software-as-a-service and on-demand software licensing options. [Click to continue] |