Intentia Floats Vaporware Agent to Replace Business Planning
D. Geller - December 15, 1999

Event Summary

Intentia International AB is a provider of enterprise resource planning software called Movex for mid-sized companies (See TEC Technology Research Note: "Intentia: Java Evolution From AS/400" October 1st, 1999). Intentia recently announced Movex Intelligent Agent for the fourth quarter of 2000. Movex Intelligent Agent will, according to the company, 'find and negotiate deals instead of having personnel do it.' The product will be used to search out business-to-business auctions, and will track and learn from user behavior; it will constantly scour the Web or a closed marketplace to search for appropriate deals to recommend to users...