CDC Software to acquire business activity monitoring specialist WKD Solutions
By Manufacturing Business Technology Staff -- Manufacturing Business Technology, 2/11/2009 9:27:00 AM
CDC Software, which offers industry-specific enterprise software applications and services, is seeking to acquire WKD Solutions Ltd., a provider of supply chain event management and business activity monitoring (BAM) solutions that help enterprises improve supply chain visibility and support governance, risk and compliance requirements.
Surrey, U.K.-based WKD Solutions markets its products under the Categoric Software brand. Under an OEM agreement, Categoric’s supply chain event management technology has been used in CDC Software’s Catalyst product line for several years.
Categoric solutions—including real time alerting, process automation, corrective action tracking, and key performance indicator (KPI) dashboards—are expected to be integrated with CDC Supply Chain solutions. CDC Software believes these solutions will help enterprises make better informed business decisions, quickly address problem areas, and allow them to fully exploit emerging business opportunities.
“We were one of the first companies to develop a proactive business management solution that incorporated real-time alert technology, and we are excited with the prospect of bringing this innovative technology and our extensive expertise to one of the leading supply chain providers in the industry,” says Kevin Noakes, CEO of WKD Solutions. “We believe the combination of Categoric technology with CDC Supply Chain will deliver information an enterprise needs to optimize performance throughout their supply chain.”
