MAPICS Moving On Pragmatically
P.J. Jakovljevic - November 19, 2002

Event Summary

For the last several months, MAPICS, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAPX), a global provider of extended ERP applications for world-class mid-sized manufacturers, has embarked on a painstaking process of producing a strategy going forward that would pragmatically blend the company’s traditional values and success factors with new approaches to stay in tune with market trends. During this time, the company has been energized with a new functional structure and an expanded executive management team. It has evolved its marketing and revamped its solutions to focus on business issues and specific discrete manufacturing verticals and to thereby appeal to existing and prospective customers. The executive team includes a new chief financial officer (CFO), chief technology executive (CTE), chief marketing executive (CME) and senior vice president of North American sales persons to fill both existing and newly created positions...