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Upgrading IT capabilities for Manufacturers: SaaS vs Custom RIA

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Manufacturingtalk has now published our article which examines how to upgrade IT application functionality for the manufacturing industry.

In particular, the article examines subsribing to a SaaS vs.  custom-building the software application in-house using rich internet application platforms such as uniPaaS.

For a more in-depth look at the application technology needs of the manufacturing sector and how they can be solved have a look at the following web page and white paper.

How to Reap the Benefits of RIA and SaaS - Enterprise Systems

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Rich Internet applications and their brainchild, software-as-a-service (SaaS), are expensive to build. Today they represent the most challenging development process yet.

Regev Yativ, Magic Software's President & CEO for the Americas tells Enterprise Systems how to get around the complexity of building and deploying RIA and SaaS in this article just out.

Other collateral news - we have a new case study now available - this one is about FKB - a Liechtenstein-based health insurance provider that, using uniPaaS, has become the largest health insurance provider in Lichtenstein with the lowest operating costs in the industry for both Liechtenstein and Switzerland.  

Website news, we've added even more new items to our solutions section - this time focusing on Magic Software's solutions for specific industry verticals - so far we have healthcare, manufacturing, finance, government and logistics - along with relevant case studies that describe some of the real-life challenges and implementations in each industry.

And lastly, the first of two Get IT Together seminars is happening in Connecticut today. Last minute places are still available for the Nov 12th event in San Diego. If you are interested in attending ring as soon as possible to reserve your place on - 949 250 1718.

5 ROI Benefits of Rich Internet Apps for Manufacturing Industry

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Following on from my previous manufacturing posts, I've now compiled the main 5 benefits of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) for manufacturing industries into a new white paper that you can download for free here.

Rich Internet Applications are particularly beneficial to manufacturing companies. That's because the nature of manufacturing requires a combination of powerful business functionality (to handle their diverse work scope - including production, delivery, inventory, sales force etc), that they need to display in a myriad of ways (graphically and in complex table format), and they need it available anywhere (at the production line site as well as on the move in the warehouse etc).

They can get this sort of rich internet functionality today by sourcing it from a SaaS vendor of course. It's quick to assimilate, and cost-effective to run. The only problem is if the vendor doesn't have exactly the type of functionality that the manufacturer needs. There's not much room for customization with an off-the-shelf SaaS product. 

There is then an advantage to building your own RIA in house - as long as it can be done without incurring high costs and an over-long development effort!

The white paper first highlights the benefits of RIA to manufacturers and then describes the most efficient and effective path to implementing RIA in-house.

All comments and feeback are welcome!