Englische News-Beiträge

Volkswagen components: Top-Logic™ now also productive at Volkswagen in China and Russia

Since Top-Logic™ has been tried and tested in the Volkswagen component business segments within Germany since 2012, the development control system is now also being successfully implemented in China. The security concepts of Top-Logic™ are designed to ensure that only authorized persons can gain access to the sensitive information in component development.

Top-Logic™ is also being used for the planning and controlling of infrastructure projects, such as the new Volkswagen engine plant in Russia.

Product Update for FC Bayern München AG

Business Operation Systems has provided a product update of Top-Logic™ Contract to FC Bayern München. Starting with the 2013 / 2014 season debit-side contracts with their negotiated fixed and optional payments will be registered in the contract management system. Invoices for these individual contracts can be generated by the system in a three-tier workflow.
With the system’s financial analysis facilities the payments can be filtered and grouped according to criteria of the individual user such as responsibility, contract party, date range, or economic criteria. This controlling information for the planning of incoming and outgoing payments and the invoice state flow directly into the economic enterprise governance.
With this product update FC Bayern München – with the support of Business Operation Systems – simplifies the filing structure of contracts and thereby the authorization management for read, write, and analysis access.

Market Launch of the Top-Logic™ Contract Product Update

In June Business Operation Systems has started the marketing campaign for the new Top-Logic™ Contract whose functionality has been greatly extended. So far several well-known football clubs in Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Switzerland have shown interest.
First talks could be arranged with German marketing and event organisations that operate world-wide. We are convinced that we are about to open up new customer markets for Top-Logic™ based solutions.

BEST System Compound enters Crucial Phase

The ProjectManagementCockpit (PMC) – the integrated reporting and governance system for the car development of BMW Group – is being integrated into a system compound of operational and data management systems in the context of an integrated project. Go-live will be at the end of 2013. Since the beginning of the year Business Operation Systems has made major steps in extending and improving the methodology for developing and executing automated tests in the context of the Top-Logic™ Base-Framework. We are convinced that this fundamental technological evolution will raise the application quality despite increasing business and technical complexity.

We have participated in the BARC Project Management Software Survey 2013.

The product analysis is based on a detailed system evaluation which was carried out in cooperation with the vendors. The survey takes a holistic point of view on the systems – instead of examining single functions the systems were classified with respect to their ability to support the project managers of all governance layers in the different phases of the project lifecycle. The survey is completed by a procedure model for system selection and a comprehensive description of product functions.

Swisscon TV rolls out Product Update of Top-Logic™ Configuration

Swisscom has decided to roll out the product update to Top-Logic™ Configuration Version 2.0 to noticeable extend their Top-Logic™ Configuration-based TV channel and logo management solution introduced in 2012.

Top-Logic™ Configuration Version 2.0 provides a system support for the configuration management of parallel interacting configuration processes by means of:

  • Workflow support
  • Process-oriented views
  • Process-oriented authorization
  • Governance of process data domains and data handover points between processes
  • Release Management with release-triggered data registration and merging operations

ProSTEP iViP Symposium 2013, Openness for Global Success

During the ProSTEP iViP Symposium 2013 in the german pavillion in Hannover system and consultancy companies from the PLM area shall have the chance to present their work and exchange views and visions. Every year, the accompanying exhibition is a popular communication forum for the symposium attendees.

Top-Logic™ Project and Top-Logic™ Contract at Volkswagen AG, ITP Genuine parts

At the end of the year 2012, Business Operation Systems deployed the solution MPM at Volkswagen ITP Genuine parts. MPM is based on the BOS products Top-Logic™ Project und Top-Logic™ Contract and is responsible for the controlling of IT-projects and -portfolio and the administration of contracts up to the point of financial aspects.

Relaunch of Top-Logic Contract™

In 2013 Business Operation Systems will present the newest product enhancement of its contract management system to its customers. A pilot customer will introduce the new functions in its productive system already in January.
The central element of the application – the contract data sheet – is extended by a contract position administration.
The management of payments that result from a contract has been completely redesigned and moved to a new tab. Creating and editing periodic and non-periodic payments has been greatly simplified.
The highlight of the product extension is the “invoice creator” module. Using the payment planning a workflow for invoice editing and approval can be executed.
The cockpit functionality has been extended to provide the invoice responsible with a quick overview of billable payments.
A finance reports with a set of parameters allows for an extensive analysis of due and incoming payments across the contract portfolio. With aggregations and drill-downs the analysis can be focused to individual suppliers or parts of the enterprise.
A new task management replaces the previous reminder system. In addition to the known standard reminders the user can now have the system remind him of any contract date via e-mail very easily. Tasks are fully integrated into the cockpit and search modules so that they provide a valuable support for the user in his daily work.

With the new features and extensions BOS is relaunching Top-Logic Contract™ as a contract and finance management system.

Top-Logic™ Project is “Ready for IBM PureSystem”

Top-Logic™ Project was approved in the IBM Labs for the deployment on IBM PureApplication System Platform and got the assignment “Ready for IBM PureSystem”. Top-Logic™ Project can be downloaded soon. With IBM PureSystem, IBM is setting a standard in economical system management. For further Information: Ready for IBM PureSystems.