Manufacturing Business Technology - June 1, 2002

Don't believe everything you hear about Web services. Yes, they will make it easier to exchange information between disparate systems. They will even make it easier to collaborate with your outside trading partners. But despite what you may have heard, Web services will not solve all of your system integration or business communication problems—not today, at least.

• Columnists
• Wringing value from enterprise systems
• Back Talk
• The squeeze is on
• Issue Analysis
• In the driver's seat with demand management

• Departments
• New Products
• Manugistics 7 EPO syncs up planning and execution
• Siemens integrates Ortems scheduling engine with Simatic IT
• News at the Front
• From Molex to Graybar
• Manugistics' announces customer wins
• We applaud change
• In brief
• Momentum in the making
• Microsoft to acquire Navision

• Features
• Deliver
• Togetherness pays
• Make
• Practical intelligence
• Plan
• Bye-bye generic ERP
• Source
• Define a space, occupy a space