GRA 843 Study Guide - Final Guide: Product Data Management, Agfa-Gevaert, Emc Isilon

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Gra 843 final exam - intro to unified workflows. Unified workflow any solution offered to combine all areas of printing/publishing workflow under one umbrella. Combination of mis (business) cmm (color) crm (data, customer) rips (production) Silos of operations any management system unable to operate with other systems closed off from other systems. Process integration holistic approach to process design & optimiztion exploits interactions with diff units to min costs. A big part of concept of unified workflow not full definition more to uw than process integration. Process optimization adjusting process to optimize set of parameters without violating constraint. Common goals minimize costs, maximize throughput, efficiency. A big part of unified workflow not full part. Not reliant on jdf uw are not the same as jdf jdf can be a part but uw are not reliant on jdf to work well. Don"t forget people uw affects how people do business (this scares workers) 3 key vendor for uw agfa heidelberg kodak.