The New Manugistics Debuts eBusiness Products
Steve McVey - February 2, 2000

Event Summary

At its press analyst day on Tuesday, Manugistics announced new tools and applications for Internet B2B collaboration intended to put the ailing supply chain management vendor back in the game. Distancing its applications from what it termed 'traditional eBusiness' solutions, Manugistics hailed the new offerings as the next evolutionary step in online trading networks, communities of businesses that buy and sell over the web. Bstreamz.com, its new trading exchange, comes in two varieties: sponsored and powered. Sponsored exchanges carry Manugistics branding or co-branding and allow open membership in return for a registration fee. Exchanges 'powered by' Manugistics allow trading networks to be built using WebWORKSÖ, an XML-based architecture. Its hosted application platform for mid markets, bnetworks.com, provides access to Manugistics's NetWORKSÖ supply chain management suite. Manugistics operates the software but the client owns the processes. ASP partnerships should follow in the coming months provided the applications find marketplace acceptance...