Un progiciel de gestion intégré ou PGI (en anglais, enterprise resource planning system ou ERP system) est un progiciel qui permet « de gérer l'ensemble des processus d'une entreprise en intégrant l'ensemble de ses fonctions, dont la gestion des ressources humaines, la gestion comptable et financière, l'aide à la décision, mais aussi la vente, la distribution, l'approvisionnement et le commerce électronique ». Paramètres constitutifs d'un PGI Selon CXP Informations Il n'en reste pas moins que l'objet « PGI » n'est pas normalisé et son appellation reste flottante : d'autres dénominations sont utilisées comme : progiciel, progiciel intégré, progiciel applicatif, progiciel applicatif intégré, progiciel de gestion, progiciel de gestion intégrée… Face à cette diversité, les deux dimensions fondamentales qui caractérisent les logiciels de type PGI sont :

Le DI ou degré d'intégration : il définit la capacité à fournir à l'ensemble des acteurs de l'entreprise une image uniqu

Automated analysis of product related data generated from PLM ontology

Ana Milicic

In recent years, ontology for the Product Lifecycle Management domain has raised a lot of interest in research communities, both academic and industrial. It has emerged as a convenient method for supporting the concept of closed lifecycle information loop, which is one of the most important issues of PLM. By modeling relevant aspects collected from all lifecycle stages of a product, within one ontology, a common knowledge structure is created accessible to all actors. Assuming that appropriate mechanisms for updating ontology (or rather, instances that populate it) are provided, ontology becomes a base layer for a knowledge management platform. Useful experience and information from all productsâ life-cycle stages, can influence designerâs decisions and business strategies. The industrial research community has recognized this added value of ontological implementation, and there is an increasing number of developed ontologies for this purpose. Application of ontology contributes to time efficiency by reducing the time required to retrieve information. Furthermore, it allows for the enhancement of design decisions which are supported through additional information at the appropriate moment. Finally, ontology gives an overall perspective on a product's lifecycle, allowing from-the-top optimization. Different domains modeled in ontology, and software platforms that use them as a base layer, become interoperable and convenient to merge. The purpose of ontology as it is today is not to store data, for the most part because there are more efficient data base systems to handle large data amounts. Still, the domain modeled within ontology is composed of structured and un-structured data sets, and ontology itself can give us a top view on relations and dependences between these data sets. In this perspective, it holds a strong similarity to a relational data base, if relations in the data base where defined so that they depicted the real world in the most precise possible manner. In large companies today, handling a growing amount of data generated every day is becoming an increasingly relevant problem. Managing and storing them, although challenging, is still feasible, but holding data without understanding it carries little added value. In an effort to exploit useful information contained in unstructured data sources, a number of decision support systems and enterprise resource planning systems have been developed. They can be very diverse in functionality and efficiency but the one thing that they all have in common is that the user has to be the one making the initiative and defining the queries. This means that the user has to know which information he is looking for, or hoping to extract. As a consequence, the number of relevant correlations and dependencies between different factors of real life captured in the data are left unnoticed, simply because they were not assumed. In the PLM domain, this is particularly present since it involves a number of actors and most of them are interacting only with a small subset of domain concepts. Data mining as a discipline, gives a number of tools for resolving this issue. All of the algorithms are designed to detect correlations, underlying patterns or functions that generated the data. The problem of data mining techniques is that they are still performed mostly manually. Although deterministic steps of data mining procedures can be supported by existing software tools, the others remain an obstac

EPFL2015

Adding flexibility to multi-tenant networks

Georgios Ioannidis

Cloud computing has been experiencing sharp development over the last years, leading to an increased demand for application migration to the cloud. Cloud providers, in an effort to attract more customers and earn their confidence, offer to tenants the illusion of an isolated network, exposing familiar abstractions. At the same time, creating this illusion poses challenging problems for the providers, as one tenant's traffic may interfere with another's in complicated, unpredictable ways. First, new challenges have arisen in administering access-control rules (ACLs). On the one hand, installing ACLs at the server is incompatible with bare-metal support and introduces unnecessary performance overhead. On the other hand, offloading the most popular ACLs on the limited hardware memory in Top-of-Rack (ToR) switches should not be conducted naïvely, as the existence of wildcard rules presents inter-rule dependencies that must be respected. Second, tenants' demands have evolved beyond requesting hardware resources; for instance, tenants may require bandwidth provisions between their resources or optimized access to a specific cloud service, e.g., a Mail server or a Database. Cloud providers have not adequately adapted to these expanding demands, therefore elevating hardware resources to "first class citizens," as non-hardware constraints are not considered during resource allocation, instead they are applied afterwards. In this thesis we propose two architectures that facilitate cloud providers in managing their shared network resources in a flexible way. First, we demonstrate virtual flow tables, a ToR architecture that handles ACLs using a two-level memory hierarchy. The most popular ACLs are stored in the limited hardware memory, respecting any dependencies between wildcard rules, while the ToR's supervisor engine maintains access to the entire ACL rule-set. Second, we present a two-tiered architecture for scheduling cloud resources, consisting of a resource-agnostic scheduling layer and a resource-specific enforcement layer. Network resources and constraints are taken into consideration during resource scheduling, instead of afterwards, while resource provisioning, as well as general network-management policies, are delegated to the resource-specific tier.

EPFL2018

Automated analysis of product related data generated from PLM ontology

Ana Milicic

EPFL2015

Adding flexibility to multi-tenant networks

Georgios Ioannidis

EPFL2018

Progiciel de gestion intégré

Le DI ou degré d'intégration : il définit la capacité à fournir à l'ensemble des acteurs de l'entreprise une image uniqu

Automated analysis of product related data generated from PLM ontology

Adding flexibility to multi-tenant networks

Integration of real time shop floor data into ERP software

Automated analysis of product related data generated from PLM ontology

Adding flexibility to multi-tenant networks

Integration of real time shop floor data into ERP software