Collaborative Product Commerce -CPC- 'What Works' Awards Announced; Aberdeen Report Examines Top Ten CPC Implementations.Business/Technology Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 25, 2001 In a report released today, Aberdeen Group, a leading IT market analysis and positioning services firm, publishes its list of the top ten Collaborative Product Commerce (CPC (1) (Central Processing Complex) An IBM mainframe that has two or more central processors (CPs) that share memory. It is the collection of processors, memory and I/O subsystems manufactured with a single serial number, typically all contained in one cabinet. ) implementations to date. Each award is accompanied by a case study on the customer, the implementation strategy, and the CPC supplier, "In the past year and a half, there has been a substantial amount of `hype' surrounding the CPC market," said Jack Maynard, research director in Aberdeen's Collaborative Business Solutions practice area. "This report documents concrete, real world implementations and lets the CPC suppliers, the end users, the investment community, and other interested parties know that CPC products are delivering tremendous value to the early adopters of this technology." The case studies are based on in-depth research of CPC customer/vendor pairs. Evaluation criteria focused on the customer's business challenges of cost reduction, process improvement, supplier and customer relationship management, and ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). realized from implementing the CPC solution. Along with CPC market information, the report illustrates the global acceptance of CPC, vertical market orientation, and a view on the market -- and technology vendors -- from the perspective of the end user. Aberdeen's report, "Making the Case for Collaborative Product Commerce (CPC) as the Next Big Thing" takes a case study approach to providing that information. The report provides examples of excellence in CPC implementations. It contains a spectrum of industries, companies, vendors, business problems, and solution approaches. Each company in the top ten is presented on an equal footing with no regard to rank among those chosen. Several firms, while not meeting requirements for the top ten, offered implementation examples that Aberdeen believed were sufficiently compelling that their stories also needed to be told. These companies that so closely missed the top 10 cutoff are awarded honorable mention. The profiled end user customer companies include: Aalborg Industries, Acer Inc, Aptec, Branson Ultrasonics ultrasonics, study and application of the energy of sound waves vibrating at frequencies greater than 20,000 cycles per second, i.e., beyond the range of human hearing. Corp., Celestica, Inc., Flextronics, Intel Corp., Lockheed Martin NE&SS, Newport News Shipbuilding, Seagate Technology LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , Sikorsky Aircraft, Snap Appliances, and Sycamore Networks. The profiled CPC solution vendors include: Agile Software, Alventive, BetaSphere, Inc., Citrix Systems, CoCreate Software, Inc., Framework Technologies, 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) , MatrixOne, NexPrise, Inc., Primavera Systems, Inc., PTC (PTC, Needham, MA, www.ptc.com) Long a world leader in mechanical computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering software, PTC, through acquisitions and reorganization, has transformed itself into a leading provider of Internet-based B2B solutions for discrete manufacturers. , SDRC (company) SDRC - The company behind VGX. http://sdrc.com/. , SmarTeam, and Tonbu, Inc. For more information about "Making the Case for Collaborative Product Commerce (CPC) as the Next Big Thing" visit www.aberdeen.com/top10cpc or call (800) 577-7891. About Aberdeen Group Aberdeen Group is a leading market analysis and positioning services firm that helps Information Technology vendors establish leadership in emerging markets. Steeped in technology and armed with end-user field research, Aberdeen answers clients' critical business and technology questions in the context of the Internet economy and across the product life cycle. Founded in 1988, Aberdeen is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and has research divisions in Palo Alto, California “Palo Alto” redirects here. For other uses, see Palo Alto (disambiguation). Palo Alto (IPA: /ˌpæloʊˈʔæltoʊ/, from Spanish: palo: "stick" and alto: "high", i.e. ; Fort Collins, Colorado The City of Fort Collins, a home rule municipality situated on the Cache la Poudre River along the Colorado Front Range, is the county seat and most populous city in Larimer County, Colorado. ; and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Aberdeen is accessible via the Web at www.aberdeen.com. |
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