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abb Cewe Control Improves Collaboration for Better Products: ABB Cewe Control, with 550 employees, is part of ABB Sweden, a global leader in power and automation technologies. ABB Cewe Control wanted to enable more people to participate in new product development. The company created central digital vault for all product information to improve access and manage workflows electronically....; Tags: Collaboration, ABB, CAD, Retail, Business Structures, Product Marketing, Process Improvement, Software, Finance, Marketing, Quality, Business Operations; Case studies 2007-10-01
Outsourcing Systems Unit Allows abb to Renew Its Business Focus: ABB wanted to increase its core focus on power and automation. Having previously outsourced infrastructure to an external supplier, ABB began to look for a competent outsourcing vendor to partner with. The goal was to achieve an ideal, win-win solution for ABB as well as for the employees of Business...; Tags: Capgemini, Outsource, ABB, Outsourcing Systems Unit, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting; Case studies 2007-08-06
The abb Group Overcomes Major Liquidity Crisis With Strategic Finance: The ABB Group, a leading global engineering company, has an illustrious record of innovation and technological leadership in many industries and has helped countries all over the world to build, develop, and maintain their infrastructures. In 2002 and 2003, ABB overcame a major liquidity crisis with the aid of Oracle's...; Tags: Hyperion Solutions Corp., Oracle Corp., ABB Group, Liquidity, ABB, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance; Case studies 2007-08-01
OPC UA - Service-Oriented Architecture for Industrial Applications: OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) is the new standard of the OPC Foundation providing interoperability in process automation and beyond. By defining abstract services, OPC UA provides a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) for industrial applications - from factory floor devices to enterprise applications. OPC UA integrates the different flavors of the...; Tags: SOA, ABB, OPC UA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2006-10-16
Sudokumatic (zip): Sudokumatic is a free program that solves Sudoku puzzles. Simple to use, just enter the numbers of the puzzle and see how fast Sudokumatic solves it. From 2 seconds to a few minutes depending on the level of the puzzle. If you want to check if your puzzle is correctly...; Tags: Puzzle, ABB, Sudokumatic; Software downloads 2005-12-26

abb Increased Development Productivity by Creating a Consolidated Business View Using Oracle: ABB is a global leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve performance while lowering environmental impact. Having developed the complete ETL process with Informatica´s Powermart, it wasn't long before the limitations of Metadata Management became visible. The solution was to use Oracle Warehouse...; Tags: Oracle Corp., ABB, Oracle Warehouse Builder, Strategy, Databases, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Case studies
Italian Leader in Energy and Automation Technologies Reduces Support Costs by 28 Percent: ABB Group is one of the world's leading providers of energy and automation technologies. Despite the ABB Group move towards an outsourcing agreement with IBM, subsidiary ABB Italia wanted its existing information technology services team to continue to manage its infrastructure. To ensure that it could deploy new applications, software...; Tags: ABB Group, Microsoft Corp., ABB, Security Administration, Outsourcing, Patches, Tools & Techniques, Security, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management; Case studies
Leader Implements Advanced Collaborative Commerce Network and Significantly Cuts Average Process Costs: ABB provides power and automation technologies to utilities and manufacturing factories. ABB wanted to ensure that its manual processes could be updated so that its suppliers could buy materials quickly and easily. It also wanted to implement an infrastructure that could support collaborative planning, electronic transactions, and online reporting. Following...; Tags: Network, Leader, Microsoft Corp., ABB, Enterprise Application, EAI, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Manufacturing, Software; Case studies
abb Australia Meets Head Office Directive, Raises Productivity, and Cuts 5% From Local IS Costs: When multinational power and automation technology group ABB issued a global mandate altering the way costs were charged within the business, it left the Australian team with a challenge of how to source a system that billed internal services on a per-user basis, rather than the traditional "allocation versus budget"...; Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., ABB, Microsoft Development Tools, .Net, Team Management, Web Services, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Software; Case studies
Bluetooth in Oslo Pump Stations: Oslo Municipality is implementing a Bluetooth solution named BWE 800C, as a part of the ABB Industrial ITTM AC 800C control system to provide wireless maintenance and operation of water pump stations. The pump stations control fresh and waste water flow throughout the Norwegian capital. The solution will enable Oslo...; Tags: Station, ABB, Oslo Municipality, Bluetooth, PDAs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Handhelds, Hardware; Case studies
Novell Case Study: abb ALSTOM POWER (Schweiz) AG: ABB ALSTOM POWER (AAP) came into being in 1999, with the merger of subdivisions of the ABB Group (ABB Kraftwerke) and ALSTOM. The prime concern within the merger was to combine the two IT networks. The newly-formed AAP (Schweiz) AG took the opportunity to set up its own hardware and...; Tags: Novell Inc., Alstom, ABB, Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet, Servers, Networking, Investment, Finance, Hardware; Case studies
abb Controls Billions in Procurement Spend With SAS Supplier Relationship Management: ABB, which supplies utilities and other industries with power and automation technologies, is a truly global corporation, with business units in some 100 countries and annual revenues close to US$15 billion. As a rule of thumb, such companies spend close to half of their revenues on subcontractors, creating very large...; Tags: Supplier Relationship Management, SAS Institute, Procurement, ABB, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations; Case studies
abb Case Study: Pfizer: The Pfizer Safety Sciences groups is located across 7 sites around the world and undertake preclinical activities vital to the development and introduction of new drug products within the Pfizer group. During a FDA inspection, spreadsheets were sited as a significant compliance concern, and improvements were required against spreadsheet validation...; Tags: Pfizer Inc., Spreadsheet, ABB, Pfizer Safety Sciences Group, Productivity, Federal Government, Government; Case studies
abb Robotics Customers Increase Productivity With Flexible Customization Technology: ABB Robotics provides global manufacturers with automation technologies. One of these technologies is RobotStudio, the programming software for robotic systems. For years, ABB Robotics used Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications for customization technology in RobotStudio. But the company wanted to give customers a more flexible, reliable, and easily managed toolset...; Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Robotics, Microsoft Corp., ABB, ABB Robotics, Robots, Microsoft Development Tools, Emerging Technologies, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development; Case studies
Swedish Company Increases Efficiency of Processes With Project Management Solution: The power transformer division of Swedish company ABB produces around 80 transformers every year. As the business continues to grow, it has become increasingly important for ABB to ensure better control of its ongoing projects. Previously, the company used a number of systems to manage project planning. After replacing them...; Tags: Swedish Company, Microsoft Corp., ABB, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management; Case studies

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SerialMon (1 setup): Free RS232 serial port monitor/sniffer software. Can be used for any serial communication. It supports a wide range of cable connections. Use it to fault trace your modem connector or industrial serial communication. It can decode ABB RP570 packets. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: SerialMon, Modems, Hardware, Components; Software downloads 2008-02-14
MSDN Webcast: Visual Studio Tools for Applications (Level 200): This webcast explores how Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications (VSTA) is being deployed to customize leading applications, going beyond the initial use demonstrated by ABB RobotStudio and Object Customizer by Solgenia. The webcast explores how VSTA provides managed extensibility that is focused on the Microsoft .NET Framework. When integrated...; Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft Visual Studio, Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Tool, VSTA, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; Webcasts 2007-09-27
Synergizing Methodologies to Achieve Architecture Targets (Towards SOA): Contemporary Enterprise IT Architect's are perplexed with the different Tactics, Techniques and Tools - such as Architectural Framework/Methodologies from MDA, RUP, TOGAF, ITIL, Prince 2, etc., and Techniques - such as Meta Model Repository based EII, Patterns (Architecture and Design), Abstraction Layers, ABB/SBB, Description, Specifications, Markup, etc. This paper identifies...; Tags: Technique, Sun Microsystems Inc., SOA, Productivity, Model Driven Architecture, ITIL, UML, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, It Services, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2006-01-20
People + Projects = Strategic Execution: Projects are no longer "something extra" - they are the way work gets done at an increasing number of companies, from small start-ups to the likes of Hewlett Packard, IBM, US West, Motorola, ABB and many others. In fact, most of the value-adding activities that companies do come in the...; Tags: Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management; White papers 2005-06-05
HP Technology Helps Fernwarme Wien Distribute Vienna's Hot Water as Environmentally Safe Heat Source: Like any highly populated metropolitan area, Vienna faces the ongoing challenges of disposing of city trash and providing dependable heat to its residents and businesses. However, Vienna is home to Fernwarme Wien, an innovative company whose solution for connecting these unrelated challenges is both benefiting the city and serving as...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Vienna, Business Intelligence, Operating Systems, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Case studies