Event Summary
Stockholm-based Intentia, the third largest enterprise software vendor in Europe, and UK-based Dash Associates have teamed up to enhance the capabilities of Intentia's optimizer by the incorporation of XPRESS-MP modeler and optimizer components. The collaboration aims at providing highly accurate solutions to complex, real-world planning problems in the shortest possible times. Intentia plans to have integrated XPRESS-MP into its supply chain management functionality as early as the end of 1999 (70% probability).
Market Impact
The Intentia-Dash collaboration mirrors a long-standing trend in the enterprise marketplace in which vendors with broad-featured product suites partner with best-of-breed technology shops in order to impart a degree of depth to one or more aspects of their suites. A more familiar example is SAP's 1998 investment in ILOG S.A., in which the ERP giant acquired a 5% stake in return for the use of ILOG's advanced algorithms in its APO supply chain suite. Companies like Dash and ILOG have created a market in licensing advanced algorithms to larger ERP and SCM (Supply Chain Management) vendors. The interaction is symbiotic in that:
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Intentia gains best-of-breed optimization functionality to complement its Movex supply chain management and APP (Advanced Production Planner) applications and improves its marketability. Well-known in Europe, Intentia may become more attractive to North American companies provided that the integration is successful; optimization tends to be a strong differentiator among enterprise software vendors.
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Dash Associates obtains additional capital for pursuing acquisitions of its own and/or funding internal development projects.
SOURCE:
http://www.technologyevaluation.com/research/articles/intentia-and-dash-associates-team-up-15541/
Stockholm-based Intentia, the third largest enterprise software vendor in Europe, and UK-based Dash Associates have teamed up to enhance the capabilities of Intentia's optimizer by the incorporation of XPRESS-MP modeler and optimizer components. The collaboration aims at providing highly accurate solutions to complex, real-world planning problems in the shortest possible times. Intentia plans to have integrated XPRESS-MP into its supply chain management functionality as early as the end of 1999 (70% probability).
Market Impact
The Intentia-Dash collaboration mirrors a long-standing trend in the enterprise marketplace in which vendors with broad-featured product suites partner with best-of-breed technology shops in order to impart a degree of depth to one or more aspects of their suites. A more familiar example is SAP's 1998 investment in ILOG S.A., in which the ERP giant acquired a 5% stake in return for the use of ILOG's advanced algorithms in its APO supply chain suite. Companies like Dash and ILOG have created a market in licensing advanced algorithms to larger ERP and SCM (Supply Chain Management) vendors. The interaction is symbiotic in that:
1.
Intentia gains best-of-breed optimization functionality to complement its Movex supply chain management and APP (Advanced Production Planner) applications and improves its marketability. Well-known in Europe, Intentia may become more attractive to North American companies provided that the integration is successful; optimization tends to be a strong differentiator among enterprise software vendors.
2.
Dash Associates obtains additional capital for pursuing acquisitions of its own and/or funding internal development projects.
SOURCE:
http://www.technologyevaluation.com/research/articles/intentia-and-dash-associates-team-up-15541/
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