India, China lead IT manufacturing
The annual IT confidence survey by Eurocom Worldwide sees India and China emerging as the leading technology manufacturing centres, leaving the US and Europe lagging.
"China is expected to record the highest growth in IT manufacturing jobs over the next three years, India will be close second," writes AsiaTimes.com.
Of the firms surveyed by Eurocom and its Indian partner IPAN, 76% believed India and China will take a lead in the IT manufacturing space. Seventeen percent of the 300 top managers surveyed said India will record the highest growth in the jobs front while 71% were of the opinion that China will take a lead.
Microsoft-SAP collaboration under way
Mendocino, the project to marry Microsoft desktop productivity tools with SAP business applications, has been released to a small group of 40 joint customers and 10 business partners, since its initial deployment in December.
"The goal of Mendocino is to enable users to easily access the richness of enterprise process data in SAP back-office systems through widely used Microsoft Office applications - thereby extending the reach of the former and the utility of the latter," notes Manufacturing Business Technology.
"This is the first time that SAP and Microsoft have jointly developed a product," says Sharada Achanta, SAP senior director of solution marketing for Mendocino.
MS hosts manufacturing innovation show
The Italian Manufacturing Innovation road show will take place on 29 and 30 March at the Centro Congressi MilanoFiori, in Italy, writes ManufacturingTalk.com.
It is the second in a series of two-day events taking place throughout Europe focusing on technology innovation in the manufacturing industry.
The road show is hosted by Microsoft and supported by 17 leading manufacturing companies, and will look at different market segments of the manufacturing industry including the automotive, consumer packaged goods, discrete manufacturing, fashion, industrial equipment, and pharmaceutical industries.
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