"It’s not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; but the one most responsive to change" - Charles DARWIN -
"A company’s ability to respond to unplanned events, good or bad, is a prime indicator of its ability to execute"
- Bill GATES, Business @ The Speed of Though -
Market globalization, increasing customer demands with respect to quality, lead-time and cost, as well as very stiff competition have considerably changed the way companies do business. Customized business services, international multi-actor environments and tight workflows increase the complexity of day-to-day operations.
Companies have moved from a vertical top down way of working to flat organizations, providing higher flexibility and performance improvement. The development of information technology eroded the boundaries between organizations, and companies now have to react to an increasing number of unpredictable business events.
This exception-rich environment provides a multitude of new business opportunities that have to be embraced. An increasing number of highly-operational decisions with quite substantial consequences must be taken in record time. In this context, providing an intelligent business support to users constitutes an essential competitiveness factor.
“Our current technology will not scale to support the ever increasing global interaction”
– James ODELL, Cutter Opinion Paper, January 2007 -
“Despite recent advances, key differentiating activities remain firmly in the domain of employees and the extended teams within which they function.
The current technology stack has succeeded in removing a great deal of make-work from our employees’ day-to-day lives, but automating the complex,
trial-and-error processes that we rely on them for is beyond the capabilities of our existing technology stack. Manual intervention continues to be a reality in many
situations where there is a need to translate policy and make assessments.”
– Peter EVANS-GREENWOOD, CTO Capgemini Australia -
Agent technology provides the answer to the new business demands, and represents the technological evolution that will scale up IT’s contribution to the business. Agent technology enables the development of adaptive business solutions, providing better decision making, increased productivity, and higher customer satisfaction through rapid adaptation to new business needs.
“Agent technology is the foundation of adaptive solutions.”
- Navi Radjou, Principal Analyst, Forrester -
“Goal-Seeking Agent technology heralds the introduction of adaptive applications.”
- Daryl Plummer, General Manager and Vice President, Gartner -
(Business Integration Journal, March 2004)
OSLO Suite’s goal oriented approach guarantees that business solutions provide key value and help users reach their business objectives. With OSLO Suite both the design and the execution of the business solution are driven by the business goals, enabling a perfect alignment between IT and business requirements.
OSLO Suite sets a new standard of adaptive business solution providing real business value, developing and evolving at the pace imposed by the market.
OSLO Designer is the goal oriented design module, providing business analysts with a powerful tool to simply decrypt the complexity of their business, and extract the best business practices.
OSLO Builder automatically generates the Java code, and builds the links with the corporate information system.
OSLO Server provides a robust, high performance environment for executing adaptive business solutions.
OSLO Suite’s agent based functionalities can bring significant value added in the following business areas:
Assigning the right task to the right resource with the right equipment in the right location at the right time in a cost effective manner is a daily challenge for companies. OSLO Suite empowers the agent’s negotiation capabilities to provide self optimizing auction models for resource allocation. Regardless of the resource type, the agent based auction model adapts to your business needs, and provides advanced resource allocation solutions.
For dynamic “on demand” processes, OSLO Suite agents can self assemble in real time, or orchestrate processes to provide fully customized business services.
Inside SOA middleware, OSLO Suite’s agents can be use to provide intelligent application-level management of services that require autonomy, flexibility and robustness.
As a complement to your enterprise resource planning software (ERP), your managers can rely on solutions that adapt to the specific needs of their activity. OSLO Suite’s goal oriented modeling enables you to play an active role in the design of your business solutions. With OSLO Suite you will build and own business solutions and services that reflect your real business needs, and that will be key contributors to achieving your business goals.
With OSLO Suite you provide business users with more "intelligent" business solutions capable of supporting their day-to-day operations. OSLO Suite will allow you to satisfy the real business needs in a time and cost effective manner. Agent technology provides solutions that will scale up to fulfill not only present but also future business needs.
OSLO Suite relies on open standards to facilitate the interoperability with the existing applications thus increasing the business value of the information system.
Adapting at the pace of the business, anticipating, facilitate work with business users while reducing costs, are all difficult or even impossible challenges to take up by IT people.
Our teams and our partners are at your disposal to help you to assess the advantages of OSLO Suite initially in the framework of "proof of concept" or "tactical" pilot projects, and then to provide you with the methodological support necessary for successful integration and deployment.
Finance, insurance, industry, services, distribution, transportation, logistics, hospitals … whatever your sector of activity, our approved partners provide you with their knowledge of your business problems, their technical competences on OSLO Suite, and their know-how in the field of integration in order to provide you with support at each stage of your project.
Business & Decision, Capgemini, CSC, Euriware, Stercis …
