Is MAPICS Getting the Magic of PLM?
Part Three: Challenges and User Recommendations
P.J. Jakovljevic and Jim Brown - July 22, 2004

How Magik! Fits with MAPICS

For over two years or so, MAPICS, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAPX), possibly the largest global solution provider of extended enterprise applications for discrete manufacturers after acquiring its former competitor Frontstep, has shown both signs of significant changes and a persist 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...