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Production and Distribution - 1999

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QAD Inc.: The Art of Vertical Focus
P.J. Jakovljevic 11/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
QAD is competitive in ease of global multi-site implementation and quality of global service and support. However, QAD's financial position has eroded significantly over the last 18 months, and organizations evaluating QAD products should exercise moderate caution and consider existing functionality only until the Company regains a consistent, profitable financial position.

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Marcam Solutions: Shifting its Focus to MES
P.J. Jakovljevic 11/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
The envisioned integration with Wonderware's FactorySuite 2000 will allow Protean users to solve shop floor problems with all production data collected and made instantly available. We believe that within the next 4 years Marcam will gradually shift its focus to plant integration and operations applications, while de-emphasizing its financial and order management components and relying on interfaces with other ERP vendors.

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Advanced Planning and Scheduling: A Critical Part of Customer Fulfillment
Steve McVey 11/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
The face of business is rapidly evolving from traditional brick-and-mortar facades to electronic ones. While web businesses spend considerable effort in polishing Internet front ends with sophisticated graphics and animation, they must also give attention to back end fulfillment operations. Invisible to consumers, these operations encompass networks of manufacturers, warehouses, and distributors that shoulder the burden of filling orders and delivering products. Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) offers powerful tools for addressing the challenges presented to these networks by e-commerce.

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Hershey's Halloween Nightmare All Too Common for Supply Chain Implementations
Steve McVey 11/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
On October 25, Hershey Foods Corporation announced a sharp decline in revenue and earnings for its third fiscal quarter ended September 30, 1999. Consolidated net sales were $1.07 billion compared with $1.22 billion for the third quarter of 1998. Net income for the third quarter was $87.6 million, or $ 0.62 per share-diluted, compared with $107.5 million, or $ 0.74 per share-diluted, for the third quarter of 1998. Hershey Chairman and CEO Kenneth L. Wolfe blamed the poor showing on problems encountered since July, when the company switched over to new systems for customer service, warehousing and order fulfillment.

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Hummingbird Announces Extraction and Portal Strategy for ERP
M. Reed 10/27/1999 12:00:00 AM
Boston, October 25 /CNW-PRN/-Hummingbird Communications Limited (TSE:HUM,NASDAQ:HUMC), announced the immediate availability of Genio MetaLink for SAP R/3. MetaLink features drivers that enable organizations to extract and transform SAP data. This is the first product in their new ERP-related electronic business strategy. Hummingbird also announced the rollout of the Hummingbird Enterprise Information Portal, which will be available in December.

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Software Leasing Trend Slams Baan Earnings
P.J. Jakovljevic 10/27/1999 12:00:00 AM
On October 21, the Baan Company announced a larger-than-expected loss of $25M. Baan's stock price tumbled more than 10% after the loss more than tripled Wall Street's prediction of losses between $8.2M and $1.4M. Revenue for the quarter was $143M, compared to $195M in the same period last year. Sales of new software fell 59% to $36M for the recent quarter, from last year's $86.6M. Baan cited the market's move toward leasing rather than buying software as one reason for its sagging revenue.

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Symix Maintains Consistent Profitability Despite Y2K Market Conditions
P.J. Jakovljevic 10/27/1999 12:00:00 AM
On October 21, Symix Systems, Inc. announced financial results for the first quarter ended September 30, 1999. Total revenue increased 19 percent to $32.1 million, compared with $26.9 million for the same period in the prior year. The Company reported net income of $895,000, or $0.12 per share (diluted), versus $857,000, or $0.12 per share (diluted), for the same period last year.

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Aspen Technology Posts First-Quarter Loss but Beats Estimates
Steve McVey 10/26/1999 12:00:00 AM
CAMBRIDGE, MA Aspen Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: AZPN), the leading supplier of manufacturing enterprise optimization solutions for the process industries, today announced results for its first quarter ended September 30, 1999. Total revenues for the first quarter of fiscal 2000 increased 13.4% to $53.0 million, from the same period in fiscal 1999. For the three months ended September 30, 1999, software license revenue increased 34.2% to $21.5 million, as compared with the first quarter of fiscal 1999, while services revenue rose to $31.5 million. Net loss for the first quarter totaled $2.7 million or $0.11 per share, as compared with a net

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i2 Technologies Garners Semiconductor Award
Steve McVey 10/25/1999 12:00:00 AM
DALLAS, Texas -- i2 Technologies (Nasdaq: ITWO), the leading provider of intelligent eBusiness solutions, today was awarded top honors from Semiconductor International's 1999 Editor's Choice Best Product Awards Program. i2 is recognized for their innovative RHYTHM(R) suite of semiconductor solutions that are used to improve production manufacturing operations and environmental responsibility in the semiconductor industry. For the past 10 years, the Editor's Choice Best Product Awards Program has honored superior performance of equipment, materials and software that have advanced the progress and conditions of the semiconductor industry. W

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SAP Lowers Revenue Expectations
P.J. Jakovljevic 10/20/1999 12:00:00 AM
Business applications vendor PeopleSoft took aim at the customer relationship management (CRM) market on October 11 as it announced plans to buy Vantive, a maker of CRM software. The stock-for-stock deal, valued at $433 million, gives PeopleSoft a comprehensive electronic-business solution designed to help companies attract, serve, retain, and analyze their customers, a PeopleSoft spokesman said.

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