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SAP xMII manufacturing software best practices, trends and career advice |
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By Jon Franke, News Editor
08 Mar 2007 | SearchManufacturingERP.com |
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 According to SAP, xApps brought in more than $200 million in license revenue in 2006. SearchSAP.com interviewed Scott Campbell, SAP Practice Manager with Austin, Tex.-based MomentumSI, a consulting organization specializing in SOA, and Mo Ghanam, manager of partners and field enablement services at SAP Labs, about one of the more popular xApps: xMII. xMII stands for Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence and is utilized by manufacturing organizations. In this interview, Campbell and Ghanam discuss:
- xMII basics
- Some xMII customer use cases
- What SAP partners are doing around xMII
- What is coming in the future
- Career opportunities around xMII
| What's next with SAP's xMII xApp for Manufacturing | |
(0:30) What does xMII do, and how does it fit into SAP's xApps portfolio?
(2:28) How does xMII fit into SAP's "Perfect Plant" vision?
(4:25) How does xMII fit with SAP's Enterprise SOA focus?
(7:49) Can you give a couple of examples of customer implementations?
(9:50) What's coming in the next xMII release?
(8:58) Looking out further, what can users expect from xMII in the next few years?
(13:12) How are specialty software vendors in the manufacturing space using xMII, and can you give some specific examples?
(15:26) What career opportunities exist around xMII, and how can people take advantage of them?
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