Target Macro Specification of DeciGen

 

Oracle - E-Business Suite (Discrete ERP)

SAP - mySAP Business Suite (Discrete ERP)

PeopleSoft - EnterpriseOne (Discrete ERP)

ComPiere, Inc - Compiere Open Source ERP & CRM(Discrete ERP)

ICICI Infotech - Orion

Target DeciGen

Industry

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aerospace and Defense (A&D)

5

5

2

1

2

1

Associations/Non-Profit

5

5

2

3

2

5

Automotive

5

5

3

1

3

5

Banking

5

5

1

1

1

3

Chemicals

5

5

5

1

5

3

Consumer Packaged 3s (CPG)

5

5

5

2

5

3

Electronics/High-Tech

5

5

5

3

5

3

Energy

5

5

5

1

3

3

Engineering and Construction

5

5

5

2

3

5

Fabricated Metals

5

5

5

2

3

3

Financial Institutions

5

5

1

2

3

3

Food and Beverage

5

3

5

1

5

3

Health Care

5

5

2

1

3

5

Higher Education

5

5

2

1

2

5

Industrial and Commercial Products/Machinery

5

5

5

2

5

5

Insurance

5

5

1

2

1

3

Lumber/Wood

5

5

5

1

2

3

Medical Devices and Laboratory Equipment

5

3

5

2

3

3

Mining

5

5

5

1

3

3

Oil and Gas

3

5

5

1

5

3

Paper Products

5

5

5

1

3

3

Pharmaceuticals/Life Sciences

5

5

3

2

3

3

Public Sector/Government

5

5

3

2

2

3

Publishing/Media

5

5

2

2

3

3

Real Estate

5

5

5

1

3

3

Retail

5

5

2

5

5

3

Rubber/Plastic

5

3

3

2

5

3

Service Provider

5

5

5

5

3

3

Steel/Mill Products

5

5

5

2

3

3

Telecommunication

5

5

5

2

2

3

Transportation

5

3

3

1

2

5

Textiles, Apparel, and Footwear

5

5

3

2

3

3

Warehousing/Distribution

5

5

5

5

5

5

Language Support

 

 

 

 

 

 

English

3

3

3

3

3

3

All ASCII based

 

 

 

 

 

3

Manufacturing Environment

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assemble-to-order (ATO)

5

5

5

3

2

5

Batch process

5

5

5

1

5

5

Configure-to-order (CTO)

5

5

5

3

3

3

Continuous process

3

5

5

1

5

3

Engineer-to-order (ETO)/complex projects

5

3

3

3

3

2

Flow/lean manufacturing

5

5

3

1

2

3

Make-to-order (MTO)

5

5

5

3

5

3

Make-to-stock

5

5

5

2

5

5

Mixed/hybrid manufacturing (both discrete and process)

5

5

3

2

3

4

Mixed-mode discrete manufacturing

5

3

5

3

5

4

Repetitive

5

5

5

1

3

4

Functionality

 

 

 

 

 

 

Advanced planning and scheduling (APS)

4

4

4

1

1

5

Analytics

4

1

2

1

2

5

Business activity monitoring (BAM, real time monitoring of business processes)

1

1

1

1

1

5

Business intelligence (BI)/enterprise performance management (EPM)

4

4

4

1

4

5

Call center/field service

4

4

4

2

4

5

Collaborative e-commerce (buy-side, sell-side, digital marketplaces)

4

4

4

2

4

3

Customer service and support

1

1

1

4

4

5

Discrete manufacturing management

4

4

4

2

2

5

Electronic customer relationship management (ECRM)

1

1

1

4

4

3

E-mail manager

4

1

4

4

2

3

Enterprise asset management (EAM)

4

4

4

2

4

5

Financials and accounting

4

4

4

4

4

3

Human resources/payroll

4

4

4

2

4

3

Inventory management

4

4

4

4

4

5

Manufacturing execution systems (MES)/plant automation

4

4

4

1

4

5

Marketing management

4

4

2

2

4

5

Middleware/enterprise applications integration (EAI)

4

4

4

2

4

5

Operations support system

4

1

4

4

4

5

Process manufacturing management

4

4

4

1

4

5

Product lifecycle management (PLM)

4

4

1

2

2

3

Product and price configurator

1

1

1

2

4

5

Professional services automation (PSA)

1

1

1

4

1

3

Purchasing management

4

4

4

4

1

3

Quality management

4

4

4

2

4

4

Sales force automation (SFA)

4

4

4

2

4

4

Sales order management

4

4

4

4

4

4

Transportation/freight management

4

4

4

2

2

5

Warehousing, logistics and distribution

4

4

4

4

4

5

Workflow manager

4

1

2

2

4

5

Yard management

1

1

1

1

1

3

Server Platform

 

 

 

 

 

 

Linux (such as SUSE, Red Hat, or Debian)

3

3

3

3

3

3

Windows NT/2000/XP

3

3

3

3

3

3

DBMS Platform

 

 

 

 

 

 

Microsoft SQL Server

0

3

3

0

0

3

MySQL

0

0

0

0

0

3

Oracle

3

3

3

3

3

3

PostgreSQL

0

0

0

0

0

3

Sybase

0

3

0

0

0

1

Other

1

1

1

1

1

1

Integration

 

 

 

 

 

 

Access to database definitions

3

3

3

3

3

5

Access to screen information

3

3

3

3

3

5

Available APIs

3

3

3

3

3

3

Native/embedded

3

3

3

3

3

3

Industry Standard

 

 

 

 

 

 

HTTP

3

3

3

3

3

3

J2EE Platform (e.g., IBM WebSphere, SunOne, etc.)

3

3

3

3

3

No

Microsoft .NET platform

0

3

3

0

0

No

Web services -- SOAP

3

3

3

3

0

Option

Web services -- UDDI

3

3

3

3

0

Option

Web services -- WDSL

3

3

3

3

0

Option

Customization, Thin-Client Access, and Standards

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is tight native integration between functional modules.

1

5

5

5

5

5

There is tight native integration between each supported industry standard.

5

5

5

3

5

3

There is flexibility between functional modules (i.e., modules can be implemented incrementally and can be interfaced to thrid party modules) between each area.

5

5

3

2

5

5

The vendor is amenable to work with third party tools and software.

5

5

3

2

5

5

Mobile access to enterprise data in the product offering is available.

5

5

3

2

5

3

There is total portal access to the system, which is role-based and customizable.

5

5

5

5

5

5

There is "rich client" web browser access to the Internet and use of selected system areas.

1

5

5

5

5

3

There is HTML (zero client footprint) web browser access to the Internet and selected system areas.

5

5

5

5

5

5

There is a thin-client link to the Internet and selected system areas.

5

5

5

5

5

5

There is collaborative sharing of system data, automatic processes and workflow.

5

5

5

3

5

5

The product can be outsourced via an ISP/ASP.

5

5

5

5

1

5

The vendor is amenable to providing source code.

1

1

1

5

     1

 

5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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