MAPICS, Inc. Delivers the `Collaborative Dashboard,' Enabling Manufacturers to Power the Internet and Extend Their Enterprise.Business Editors ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 12, 2000 TeamWeRX Enterprise Portal See corporate portal. Provides B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business e-Collaboration Capabilities Improving Communication, Efficiency and Teamwork MAPICS (Manufacturing Accounting and Production Information Control System) A comprehensive and widely used ERP system from MAPICS, Inc., Alpharetta, GA (www.mapics. , Inc. (Nasdaq/NM: MAPX), a leading provider of collaborative, e-business enterprise applications for manufacturers, today announced at CONTINUUM 2000 in Orlando, Fla., the immediate general availability of the MAPICS TeamWeRX Enterprise Portal. CONTINUUM 2000 is MAPICS' worldwide annual user conference for the Pivotpoint, Thru-Put and Maincor business units. The TeamWeRX Enterprise Portal enables manufacturers to create a seamless virtual enterprise that integrates the entire value chain. This powerful new solution is a robust framework that provides secure collaboration and real-time integration across the suite of MAPICS applications, becoming the catalyst to transform a manufacturing enterprise to a Web-centric e-business. "Collaborative commerce has become a critical requirement for manufacturing companies looking to extend their business system beyond the four walls of the enterprise," said David Cahn, research director for AMR (1) (Adaptive Multi-Rate) A variable rate speech codec selected by the 3GPP for the 3G evolution of the GSM cellphone system (WCDMA). Using the Algebraic CELP (ACELP) compression technology, AMR provides toll quality sound at transmission rates from 4.75 to 12. Research. "Now, with the TeamWeRX Portal availability in addition to its other e-solutions, MAPICS has provided alternative pathways to the world of e-business by optimizing risks, costs and benefits in delivering strategic value to their customers." The TeamWeRX Enterprise Portal is a tailorable B2B solution that allows manufacturers to aggregate business content and applications within a common collaborative framework, providing the entire value chain with access to personalized views, discussion threads, collaboration on any object and task and project management. Using this solution, manufacturers can better manage value chain relationships and reduce information overload A symptom of the high-tech age, which is too much information for one human being to absorb in an expanding world of people and technology. It comes from all sources including TV, newspapers, magazines as well as wanted and unwanted regular mail, e-mail and faxes. by directing specific information to individual users and allowing them to control their own preferences in how the data is displayed. In addition, MAPICS has created portal "channels," which are available for enabling access to back-end ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. applications by a manufacturer's customers and suppliers. The information available in the channels is secured to the record and field levels, so that business partners can access only the information related to their specific orders or account activity. MAPICS already has customers in the U.S., Europe, Taiwan and Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (pwār`tō rē`kō), island (2005 est. pop. 3,917,000), 3,508 sq mi (9,086 sq km), West Indies, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) SE of Miami, Fla. using either the Point.Man or XA ERP backbone applications who have licensed the TeamWeRX Portal, including Electronic Manufacturing Services Inc. (EMS), Fox Electronics and Anaren Microwave. EMS, a MAPICS XA customer, is initially deploying the TeamWeRX Enterprise Portal to enhance its customer relationships by using the Internet to provide remote customers with the feeling that the EMS manufacturing site is virtually at their desktop. "By combining real-time video and real-time document management with the ability to look into our XA ERP backbone and quality data system, we have given our customers the feeling that the product is being built in their own facility," said David Black David Black may refer to:
MAPICS has also deployed the TeamWeRX Enterprise Portal to a significant portion of its own extended enterprise, including customers, affiliates and employees. "By using this powerful technology ourselves, we will enable our customers to collaborate on key business system functions, such as viewing accounts receivable accounts receivable n. the amounts of money due or owed to a business or professional by customers or clients. Generally, accounts receivable refers to the total amount due and is considered in calculating the value of a business or the business' problems in paying history, obtaining license keys on a self-serve basis and linking to our Internet-based customer support software from their personal home page in the portal. In addition, they can collaborate with business area experts real-time over the Internet," said Linda Brooks, vice president of extended enterprise solutions at MAPICS, Inc. "We will lead our customers into the collaborative commerce age not just by talking about our products but also by being the flagship user ourselves." About MAPICS MAPICS, Inc. is headquartered in Atlanta, with offices around the globe and a worldwide sales network of 75 affiliates serving customers in more than 70 countries. With more than 20 years of proven expertise, MAPICS is one of the world's leading providers of collaborative, e-business enterprise applications specifically designed to meet the needs of manufacturers. The company's flagship solutions include XA and Point.Man, two powerful extended enterprise applications (EEA EEA European Economic Area EEA European Environment Agency EEA Employment Equity Act (Canada) EEA Een En Ander (Dutch) EEA Erick van Egeraat Associated Architects EEA Energy and Environmental Analysis ) for streamlining business processes for manufacturing, customer service, engineering, supply chain planning and financials. The solutions support international and multi-site operations on platforms spanning AS/400, Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. , 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). and Linux. MAPICS also offers Thru-Put, an advanced planning and scheduling Advanced Planning & Scheduling (APS) refers to a manufacturing management process by which raw materials and production capacity are optimally allocated to meet demand. APS is especially well-suited to environments where simpler planning methods can not adequately address complex (APS) system, and Maincor, an enterprise asset management (EAM (1) (Enterprise Asset Management) The management and control of the information technology assets within the enterprise. The asset management repository includes a description of the asset as well as contract information pertaining to its acquisition. ) suite. More than 3,000 customers have implemented MAPICS' solutions, including Alpha Industries; Bayer; Dialight Corporation; Freightliner Inc.; General Electric Co., P.L.C.; Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.; Honda Motor Co. Ltd.; MAG Instruments Inc.; Mercedes-Benz (a division of DaimlerChrysler); MTD Products Inc.; SmithKline Beecham; Volvo; and York International. For more information on MAPICS, visit www.mapics.com. MAPICS, XA, Point.Man, Thru-Put, Maincor and TeamWeRX are trademarks of MAPICS, Inc. 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