Viewlocity Listed Fourth on Latest LocalBusiness.com `50 to Watch' List.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 3, 2001 List Recognizes 1,150 Emerging Companies in 24 Markets Nationwide Viewlocity, a global provider of supply chain event management software and services that help companies respond in real time to unplanned events along the extended supply chain, today announced that LocalBusiness.com listed Viewlocity fourth among private companies on its 2001 "50 to Watch" list. Each quarter, LocalBusiness.com, the online local business news and destination site, unveils its "50 to Watch" list that highlights companies that are newsmakers and are poised for change. Some companies have defined new standards, attracted significant venture capital investment, forged influential business models, developed products and services that will change business, while others may make the news in the next quarter for the challenges they face. Viewlocity's Supply Chain Event Management solutions are web-based and allow companies to track inventory, orders and shipments across an integrated supply chain in real time. Viewlocity's technology also alerts companies to exceptions along the global supply chain and takes corrective action A corrective action is a change implemented to address a weakness identified in a management system. Normally corrective actions are instigated in response to a customer complaint, abnormal levels if internal nonconformity, nonconformities identified during an internal audit or based upon pre-established business rules. "It's always a pleasure to be recognized as an innovator," said Greg Cronin, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Viewlocity. "We developed Viewlocity's Supply Chain Event Management solutions to allow innovative companies to have essential supply chain information at their fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. at all times. Viewlocity strengthens the relationship between customers and their trading partners by streamlining the supply chain." To generate the LocalBusiness.com "50 to Watch" list (http://www.localbusiness.com/Top50/0,1498,ATL (Active Template Library) A set of software routines from Microsoft that provide the basic framework for creating ActiveX and COM objects. Stemming from the standard template library (STL) that comes with C++ compilers, ATL includes an object wizard that sets up ,00.html), reporters and editors research the public and private companies in their cities, network in the VC and local business community and analyze the information sent to them by companies who nominate themselves for the list. Innovation, vision, significant venture capital funding, valuable customer contracts and new markets are among the criteria that place companies on the "50 to Watch" list. This quarter's roster of "50 to Watch" companies raised more than $27.7 billion in venture capital. About Viewlocity Viewlocity is a global provider of supply chain event management software and services that help companies respond in real time to unplanned events along the extended supply chain. With over 3,500 installations, Viewlocity is the only SCEM SCEM Supply Chain Event Management SCEM Scanning Electron Microscope SCEM Société Canadienne des Éleveurs de Moutons (Ottowa, Ontario, Canada) SCEM Survivability Cost Estimating Model provider that can seamlessly integrate a company with its suppliers, customers, logistics service providers or other trading communities. Based on XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. and other open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced , Viewlocity's solutions allow customers to leverage their existing technologies and receive synchronized, real time information about all trading interactions. Through constant monitoring of the extended supply chain, Viewlocity products provide dynamic notification of unexpected events, take corrective action based upon established business rules and apply intelligent decision execution to these supply chain events. By implementing Viewlocity's SCEM solutions, customers dramatically increase supply chain efficiencies, balance inventory with demand and lower costs making better use of their assets. Viewlocity has 14 offices worldwide, with its global headquarters in Atlanta, European headquarters in London and Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore. The company serves world-class customers including American Standard, Carrefour, DHL DHL abbr. 1. Doctor of Hebrew Letters 2. Doctor of Hebrew Literature Worldwide Express, Ericsson, Ryder System and Volvo. For more information, call 877.512.8900 or visit www.viewlocity.com. About LocalBusiness.com LocalBusiness.com is a leading Internet provider Internet provider - Internet Service Provider of breaking local news, business leads and information in over 24 major markets across the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . LocalBusiness.com generates 500 original news stories each week by a staff of more than 50 reporters and editors nationwide focusing on local breaking business news, including technology, venture capital and small business news. LocalBusiness.com also publishes digitalsouth magazine (digitalsouth.com), the only publication that covers leading-edge technology companies, venture capital and finance from the Mason-Dixon line Mason-Dixon Line, boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland (running between lat. 39°43'26.3"N and lat. 39°43'17.6"N), surveyed by the English team of Charles Mason, a mathematician and astronomer, and Jeremiah Dixon, a mathematician and land surveyor, to the Florida Keys Florida Keys, chain of coral and limestone islands and reefs, c.150 mi (240 km) long, extending from Virginia Key, S of Miami Beach, to Key West, and forming the southern extremity of Florida. and west to Texas. The company's institutional investors include U.S. Equity Partners, L.P., the private equity fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co.,L.P., Rustic Canyon Ventures, and Tribune Ventures, the strategic investment unit of Tribune Company. |
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