Manufacturing Business Technology - July 1, 2004

It has been some time since anyone dared to say publicly that we are witnessing the dawn of a new economy. Such words surely conjure images of the dot-com era, which ended badly for almost everyone associated with information technology. But Tony Friscia, CEO of Boston-based AMR Research, made that exact statement in opening remarks at his firm's most recent supply chain management conference.

• Columnists
• Up Front
• Almost famous and absolutely fabulous

• Customer Management
• Catching up with customers
• "Pay-as-you-go" software: its time has come?
• Case-in-Point
• Out-of-the-box CRM fits long selling cycle
• Component-Based Customer Management
• Full-suite CRM delivers, analyzes global customer information

• Departments
• Solutions Spotlight
• Solutions Spotlight

• Enterprise Suites
• No simple revival
• Midmarket ERP
• Spending fastest in small business segment last year; increase expected
• Migrating to Microsoft
• ERP for complex manufacturing with SQL server
• Portal Technology
• SAP eyes the plant with dashboard solution

• Plant Operations
• Plant floor's integrative shift
• Archestra's Footing
• Automation frameworks gain users, tie into plant intelligence
• Plant Platforms for Change
• Fast-growing GE group gets special attention
• The Invensys Turnaround
• Top floor to shop floor didn't cut it

• Product Management
• Tecnomatix solidly poised inside PLM's big tent
• More than a vision
• Manufacturing Process Management
• Digital manufacturing seen as high-growth PLM segment
• Product Life-Cycle Management
• PLM's CAD heritage

• Special Report
• MSI Top 100
• A whole new spin

• Supply Chain Management
• How supply chain management got that way
• In Brief
• In brief
• Mobile Asset Management
• Where does all that beer go?
• Signs of Promise
• News from the supply chain front
• Supply Chain Execution
• HighJump clears the sustainability hurdle

• Views From the Front
• Mexico's Zedillo: globalization the best answer to many challenges
• SSA Global files IPO
• UGS starts anew; MatrixOne pays cash
• Survey says QAD dominates China ERP market
• AMR Supply Conference
• Mastering demand puts Motorola on top of North American cell phone market
• Corporate
• MAPICS and that post-acquisition bounce
• ERP and Lean Manufacturing
• Why PeopleSoft went after JDE and JCIT
• Enterprise Suites
• Baking company "shocked" by SAP's tireless attention
• Information Technology
• Sterling Commerce CEO finds little difference between EDI and EI
• Operations
• Convergence of IT and automation heightens threat on plant floors
• World Batch Forum
• Keep writing those device drivers