Collaborative Product Commerce Revolutionizes Product Innovation and Manufacturing Processes; Aberdeen Report Examines CPC Software Solutions.

Business/Technology Editors

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 2000

In a report released today, Aberdeen Group, a leading provider of technology market consulting and research, states that Collaborative Product Commerce (CPC) promises to revolutionize product innovation by leveraging Internet technology to connect the entire product life cycle. CPC is a product-centric business solution that enables all contributors involved in product design to provide vital input throughout a product's life cycle.

CPC provides manufacturers, suppliers, and customers with an overarching architecture for the exchange of product knowledge and business applications throughout a product's life span. The product life cycle is unified by integrating the online sharing of product knowledge and legacy business applications -- such as Enterprise Resource Planning, Supply Chain Management, Customer Relationship Management, Product Data Management, and Computer-Aided Design/Manufacturing.

"CPC gives manufacturers a true competitive advantage," says report author Jack Maynard. "Internet collaboration throughout a product life cycle allows manufacturers to meet buyers' increasing demand for custom-tailored products, while reducing design time and getting better products to market quicker."

The updated report, entitled "Beating the Competition with Collaborative Product Commerce: Leveraging the Internet for New Product Innovation," examines CPC's value proposition for manufacturers, suppliers, and customers; forecasts market growth and segmentation; explains CPC integration with existing business applications; and profiles 32 early CPC suppliers.

Profiled suppliers are Agile Software Corporation; Alventive; Arzoon.com, Inc.; Aspect Development, Inc.; Biztro, Inc.; Branders.com; CoCreate, Inc.; Cohere Networks, Inc.; Collective Technologies; Descartes Systems Group; Done.com, Inc.; Engineering Animation, Inc. (EAI); eSprocket Corporation; Framework Technologies; Gizmo.com; Integrated Development Enterprise Inc. (IDe); Luna Information Systems, Inc.; Manugistics, Inc.; MatrixOne, Inc.; MS2, Inc.; PTC, Inc.; Spatial Technologies, Inc.; SpinCircuit, Inc.; Structural Dynamics Research Corporation (SDRC); Supplybase.inc.; Toolwire, Inc.; TradeCard, Inc.; Vuent, Inc.; Webscope, Inc.; and Xtime.

For more information about "Beating the Competition with Collaborative Product Commerce: Leveraging the Internet for New Product Innovation," visit or call [phone].

About Aberdeen

Aberdeen Group is a leading provider of technology market consulting and research. 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 centers in Palo Alto, California; Ft. Collins, Colorado; and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Aberdeen is located on the Web at www.aberdeen.com.