Aspen - To Netfinity and Beyond
Steve McVey - July 27, 2000

Event Summary

Aspen Technology, Inc. recently announced plans to leverage IBM resources to provide solutions for supply chain management (SCM) customers in the chemicals, petroleum, plastics, paper, metals, pharmaceutical, and other process industries. Under the new alliance, IBM and Aspen will work together on marketing, sales and future product development. Aspen will incorporate standards and technologies of IBM's Application Framework for e-business obtained through its PartnerWorld for Developers program. IBM and Aspen are laying odds that process manufacturers will step up spending on information technology, specifically B2B supply chain management, and want to play an important role in that growth...