CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
20 January 2010
Product News
Revolutionizing SAP PLM-based Process Management; New cenitCONNECT solution helps avoid unnecessary costs
Now available: cenitCONNECT, the new, intelligent process solution for integrated product development. cenitCONNECT optimizes decision-making and safeguard processes, helps cut unnecessary costs, and supports the design of leaner business processes. Building on the modular design of SAP’s generic process platform, cenitCONNECT offers perfect support for phased implementation concepts. Quick startup, effortless management of department-specific processes, and expansion into a cross-enterprise process platform – cenitCONNECT is the scalable solution with built-in investment security.
The standard version of cenitCONNECT offers quick successes thanks to pre-defined scenarios for change management and the product evolution process, and it combines these strengths with the long-term perspective of a cross-board SAP process solution that relies on the latest SAP technology.
One of cenitCONNECT’s most important building blocks is CENIT’s Advisor Technology. This module’s approaches allow users to reclaim valuable engineering time when setting up new projects, because they can leave a wide range of time-consuming tasks fully in the hands of the system. System support significantly reduces the amount of time spent on searching for project-relevant SAP objects, evaluating them and calculating key performance indicators (KPIs).
The Advisor also frees up capacity by automatically processing routine jobs such as document versioning, adaptation of material masters, etc. cenitCONNECT also features CENIT Dashboard Technology, a new type of project control tool that provides users with information on project progress – instantaneously, at any time. The sophisticated treatment and display of information in numerical and graphic form permits early intervention to assure project success.
The intuitive CENIT Process Workbench is pure innovation. The system is designed to be so user-friendly that processes can be set up directly by the engineering departments – without any need for IT-side programming. In addition to the simple adaptation of use cases for flexible process management, processes can also be defined ad hoc at any time to adjust standards to requirements as they arise.
Visual decision-making aids for holistic, media break-free business processes are the realm of CENIT’s Visual Process Management. All process information required for a particular task is made available to the process participants in the correct process context and in the formats they require for direct downstream processing in their respective departments. cenitCONNECT boosts the quality and transparency of business processes, focuses on value-adding tasks, and maximizes the benefits of your SAP investment.
CENIT’s rapid adaptation of the new PLM 7 technology has also delighted SAP: “We’re very happy that CENIT AG was able to react so quickly to the increased market demand for integrations with PLM 7, and is now able to provide our joint customers with an innovative process solution,” says Hans Thalbauer, Vice President, PLM Solution Management.
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