Shall Bifurcated Tack Reverse J.D. Edwards’ Bad Spell?
P.J. Jakovljevic - October 2, 2001

Event Summary

On September 4, J.D. Edwards & Company (NASDAQ: JDEC), a provider of collaborative enterprise applications, and Vitria Technology (NASDAQ: VITR), a leading enterprise applications integration (EAI) provider, announced that Vitria has been named a product alliances partner with the goal of integrating J.D. Edwards' supply chain solutions with other enterprise applications using Vitria's BusinessWare Integration server. For example, an enterprise can improve its manufacturing process by using BusinessWare to automatically communicate new orders from a J.D. Edwards supply chain and inventory control system to a third-party manufacturing execution system (MES). The agreement is in effect immediately. Adapters enabling J.D. Edwards' software are available from Vitria. J.D. Edwards and Vitria have reportedly previously collaborated in providing e-business infrastructure to a variety of clients...