The TEC Quick Case for Made2Manage
TEC staff writer - February 13, 2006

The Company History

Made2Manage (M2M) founder Jerry Rock came from a manufacturing environment and knew from his own struggles that other manufacturers needed help managing their manufacturing businesses and operations. The company launched its first system on the DOS platform in 1986, and rewrote the application in 1995 for the Windows NT platform. Made2Manage went through a strong growth period from 1996 to 2000, during which time their revenue grew to more than $30 million (USD) per year. Though the company went public in 1997, a Boston venture capital firm, Battery Ventures, acquired it in 2003 and returned it to its status as a private company. Today, based in Indianapolis, Indiana (US), Made2Manage still serves the small to medium-sized manufacturing market, though its solutions encompass a greater proportion of manufacturers' business requirements...