Global IT Needs for Formula-Based Product Development

As an IT leader in your organization, you have high expectations for your company’s formulation, packaging and product launch system. That’s why we surveyed IT managers from OTC Drug, CPG, Cosmetic, Personal Care and Pharmaceutical companies around the world before we developed Enginuity. Our software’s overall design and many of its advanced capabilities flowed directly from the desires and needs expressed during these meetings.

Your Needs / Requirements	Enginuity Delivers
"We are moving to an open, standards-based, service oriented architecture for our new applications.” “We are getting killed on total cost of ownership." "We don't have the time, staff or budget to build and support custom applications and interfaces to closed, proprietary systems"	Over 9 years ago, we could see that closed, proprietary systems were on the way out. We made the (then) difficult decision to take everything that we had learned from our global implementations to date – and start over with a "clean sheet" design based on Java, XML and web services. Enginuity’s modern, highly-configurable, service oriented architecture (SOA) provides the business flexibility of a custom built solution, without the risk, long lead times and high total-cost-of-ownership that are characteristic of custom solutions. And Enginuity's web services layer eases integration with manufacturing and other systems.
"We deal with regulated products and need a robust, industry-standard solution that has been developed and tested under GMP."	At Enginuity PLM, we follow the industry’s most rigorous software development process. All of our software has been designed, developed and tested (from day one) under GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) for use in fully validated environments. Our advanced Extensible Calculation Engine™ (XCE) technology is the industry benchmark for functionality and robustness. Our total commitment to “getting it right the first time” saves your company both time and money – speeding the initial software roll-out and minimizing support needs over time.
"We can’t change our business processes, rules or nomenclature to fit the software; it must adapt to our environment."	In contrast to most competitive systems, which are inflexible and impose their workflow onto your organization, Enginuity models your company’s workflow and business processes. Enginuity's highly-intuitive user interface that can be configured for your organization – rather than forcing you to adapt to its structure.
"My product development customers don't have several months of "spare time" to sit in meetings and teach a software company's consultants about all of their product development needs." "They need to be developing our next generation products, not sitting in a room trying repeatedly to document precisely how every industry-specific calculation, regulation or capability should function." "We want a fully customized solution, but we can’t afford a slow, expensive deployment."	At Enginuity, we have leveraged our deep industry domain knowledge and world-class understanding of the product development process – to design breakthrough enterprise software that addresses the fundamental needs of global product development organizations. You don't waste critical product development resources trying to teach us you business. Enginuity's sophisticated enterprise configuration technology – including site-configurable user screens, language, business rules and database mapping – ensures a rapid, lower-cost deployment. Upgrades are simplified and total-cost-of-ownership is reduced because our advanced XML-based configuration capabilities replace nearly all custom code.
"It must integrate easily with Documentum and Oracle."	Enginuity provides seamless, out-of-the-box integration to Documentum and Oracle.
"It must integrate easily with our UGS Teamcenter PLM backbone."	Enginuity provides seamless, out-of-the-box integration to UGS Teamcenter.
"It must be XML-based so that we can easily handoff approved formulations to our various manufacturing plants around the world, including contract manufacturers."	Enginuity natively stores all formulations and packaging assemblies as XML objects.
"We need a full audit trail on all formula development."	Enginuity provides a full product development audit trail that automatically captures all changes to formulations, processing equipment, processing conditions, packages, specifications and recipes.
"We need a solid upgrade path, supported by a critical mass of Fortune 500 companies."	Enginuity has been proven in global deployments by a number of the world's largest and most successful companies. It is currently being used by leading Fortune 500 companies in 14 countries spanning 6 continents.
"We need a new solution but also want to retain access to our existing, home-grown system. We need a simple, cost-effective migration plan."	Enginuity provides the flexibility for you to work with your existing database structure and legacy systems, instead of forcing you to abandon them.