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Breaking News and Analysis
| Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk Gets Smart with IncuityEMI |
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
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Rockwell Automation is acquiring Incuity Software, a privately held enterprise manufacturing intelligence (EMI) software company. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. This acquisition fills the EMI holes in Rockwell Automation’s rapidly growing software portfolio. Incuity users, meanwhile, should be pleased with the financial stability and product enhancement potential this acquisition creates. |
| Oracle Fires a Shot Across the Bow of IT Management Vendors |
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Saturday, March 29, 2008
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Oracle is acquiring the web application testing products from Empirix. While the deal seems relatively innocuous on the surface, it’s one of the first overt signals that Oracle plans to directly compete for the next-generation IT management suite, or what AMR Research calls IT resource planning (ITRP). |
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Featured Research
| Deriving Reward From Supply Chain Risk |
| Yesterday, Thursday, May 08, 2008 |
| Growth is a top priority for operations executives. In the
execution of growth strategies, risk is magnified, but most companies focus
only on cost and compliance. In the process, many companies unknowingly
minimize their supply chain execution capabilities. These misguided strategies
can result in staggering losses of untapped sales and profits. |
| Supply Chain Talent: State of the Discipline |
| Wednesday, April 30, 2008 |
| AMR Research, in conjunction with a subgroup of the Supply
Chain Council, has surveyed almost 200 organizations to assess the state of the
supply chain management discipline, identify key requirements to support a
demand-driven curriculum, and construct the first functional talent attribute
model, which will serve to align industry and academia in generating
standardized and more universal supply chain programs. |
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