Is MAPICS Getting the Magic of PLM?
Part One: Recent Events and Market Impact
P.J. Jakovljevic and Jim Brown - July 20, 2004

Event Summary

For over two years, MAPICS, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAPX), possibly the largest global provider of extended enterprise applications for solving the challenges of discrete manufacturers following the acquisition of its former competitor Frontstep, has shown signs of significant change and a persistent number of historically recognizable and invariant tenets of operation. During the same time, the vendor has continued with the painstaking process of producing and executing 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...