CA CLIENT/SERVER MANUFACTURING SOFTWARE SWEEPS RIVAL SAP IN DEFINITIVE NEW SURVEY; Tops Competitor In Both Midrange And Client/Server MRPII In Manufacturing Systems' Readers Choice Awards.ISLANDIA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 15, 1995--CA's manufacturing solutions out-polled rival SAP America in both midrange and client/server systems categories in the 1995 Readers Choice Survey conducted by a leading enterprise manufacturing publication, Manufacturing Systems. CA was the only vendor to be ranked in the top two in both categories, beating SAP, Oracle and more than a hundred other MRPII MRPII Manufacturing Resource Planning II vendors. The publication queried corporate, production, IS and other managers from more than 7,000 manufacturers across the nation. The manufacturing professionals were asked to choose the products that "truly make a difference in the quality and productivity of your work." "Winners of our Readers Choice Awards had to meet some very high expectations," said Kevin Parker Kevin Parker represents District 21 in the New York State Senate, which is comprised of East Flatbush, Flatbush, Midwood, Ditmas Park, Kensington, and Boro Park. He is African American. , editor of Manufacturing Systems. "Our readers want information technology that gives them real-time visibility to everything happening in their company, that can change as their business does, and that's easy to implement and use." Manufacturing Systems cited Groth Corporation's use of CA's client/server manufacturing solution, CA-Manman/X, as an award-winning example of using a single system across four company divisions that have substantially different businesses. "The fact that we can tailor the product to meet the needs of each division is, for us, a major victory," said Bob Bacon Robert 'Bob' Bacon is a Democratic member of the Colorado Senate, representing the 14th District since 2005. His district encompasses the city of Fort Collins, Colorado.[1] Previously he was a member of the Colorado House of Representatives from 1997 through 2004. , chief financial officer of Groth Corp., Houston, Texas “Houston” redirects here. For other uses, see Houston (disambiguation). Houston (pronounced /'hjuːstən/) is the largest city in the state of Texas and the . "Clients are bullish on CA because we provide flexible manufacturing solutions that can be tailored to their business needs, not the other way around," said David Cahn, CA director of product strategy. "In today's fast-paced and competitive manufacturing environment, organizations need to re-engineer their business on-the-fly to meet market demand, not re-work their business to meet the demands of their software." Computer Associates provides midrange, client/server manufacturing software The following list of software modules are the manufacturing components of Baan's ERP (BaanERP) system, acquired by SSA Global in 2003 and subsequently by Infor at the end of 2006. It is listed here because it provides a comprehensive overview of the required software. See MES. for the IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) AS/400 and a variety of UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). platforms. More than 10,000 clients around the world depend on CA manufacturing solutions to automate operations and management, from product planning to customer delivery. Results of the survey are published in Manufacturing Systems' September 1995 issue. Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CA), with headquarters in Islandia, N.Y., is the world leader in mission-critical business software. The company develops, licenses and supports more than 500 integrated products that include systems and database management, application development, manufacturing and financial applications. CA has 9,000 people in 130 offices in 36 countries and had revenue of $2.6 billion in its 1995 fiscal year. CA can be reached by visiting its homepage on the worldwide web (http://www.cai.com). -0- All referenced product names are trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Michael Kornspan, (516) 342-2463 |
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