Christophe Marcant

Product Information Management (PIM) solutions create a single view of a product for an enterprise. The single view of a product can be used for both operational and analytical purposes. PIM solutions serve information on demand — independently of any other repository of product data — for any designated destination, be it Web site; a mobile application; a kiosk at a store; or a publication (paper, CD-ROM, or online).

... With new orders streaming in each day, iMotors' procurement team around the country now has the ability to view a car at an auction and then sort orders, on the spot, for a matching customer request. With AvantGo Enterprise, iMotors has decreased order fulfillment time, eliminated duplicative work among buyers and exceeded its customers' expectations by delivering the requested vehicles more quickly...

11 Dec 2000

... Christophe Marcant, Director of Procurement and Logistics Systems for iMotors, sought a solution for the mobile team that was easy to develop, deploy and manage on a daily basis...

11 Dec 2000

Biosphere 2 (Earth being Biosphere 1) was an experiment in closed system ecology. It was a steel and glass structure about the size of three football fields and had a volume of more than three million cubic feet. The purpose of the project was to demonstrate the viability of materially closed ecosystems—a sort of bioregenerative life support system—where water, air, and food were recycled. In 1991, eight people, called Biospherians, were sealed inside Biosphere 2 for two years with only power and information being exchanged with the outside. A major part of this project was an expert system-based environmental control and monitoring system called the “Nerve System.”

http://www.b2science.org/

01 Sep 1991