Process Management
Collaboration that transcends corporate borders
Efficient process management is the lifeblood of every company. Controlling and optimizing business processes is of vital importance, particularly for multinational companies and in complex partner networks. Our results – in the form of harmonized process definitions – make a valuable contribution to increasing and safeguarding competitive capability. Our objective is to provide a widely accepted, practice-related and high quality foundation for cross-enterprise and cross-industry collaboration.
System Integration
Facilitating wide-scale utilization
Today’s working environment is characterized by heterogeneous IT landscapes. The greater the number of systems, the more expensive their integration, maintenance and support. Users and system vendors are working together with us to transcend system boundaries, increase compatibility and improve the quality of marketable products. The testing and assessment of these implementations provide the foundation for successful utilization on a wide scale. This reduces costs, increases reliability and protects both know-how and investments. At the same time, this collaborative approach provides impetus for the development of new IT systems, as well as the further development of existing systems.
Standardization
Setting standards together
Standards provide the backbone for networked collaboration. They support future-proof development and clear the path leading to the joint use of knowledge and data. Standards that are developed jointly by users and system vendors and based on day-to-day practice provide a high level of reliability and protection of investment.
This reduces the market risks for all those involved. We have the method competence required to create and maintain standards quickly and efficiently and to facilitate their implementation in practice.
Engineering Collaboration
What is important is the task, not the location
Engineering collaboration is the interplay between applications and functions that supports collaboration within companies, between different locations and between different development partners – regardless of time and location. Integrated processes are a prerequisite for this collaboration.
Our standards for data and implementation methods, as well as our integration strategies, provide support for efficient system integration. We thus facilitate the integration of all the parties involved in the development process and the realization of collaboration that transcends all borders.
Knowledge Transfer
Distributed knowledge means greater knowledge
Providing a platform for the exchange of experience, information and know-how. Providing an environment for non-competitive collaboration. This is our mission. Conferences, workshops, publications and the work performed in the project groups allow us to bundle and proliferate existing know-how. By providing a heterogeneous network comprising users, research institutes and IT system vendors, we grant access to a multitude of practice-related and also visionary knowledge.
The solutions that are created together are available to all our members. This ensures the immediate implementation of solutions in concrete projects and marketable products. This mutual exchange gives all our members a “knowledge advantage” – and thus secures them a competitive advantage.