WEB SERVICES AND ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT (EPM)

Description:

Manufacturing companies are implementing Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) platforms for significant additional returns on existing infrastructure. EPM entails addition of strategic technology for adding context, analysis, distribution and visualization of information, especially Key Performance Indicators, across organizational boundaries. EPM includes rolebased views of the operation and integrated security across all application boundaries, allowing all stakeholders to collaborate in real-time on operational issues that affect them. EPM is a strategy not a software package and does not require significant re-engineering of plant systems but provides additional ROI with only incremental investment, but can enable the business to benefit from quick decisions based on access to real-time information. Web Services are a key element of the architecture for EPM as they provide the inexpensive, universal, application to application communication standard. EPM facilitates the integration of plant and ERP portals.