Atlanta-based apps evolution leads to Visiprise

Atlanta is home to a number of manufacturing and supply chain applications vendors. When it comes to the Atlanta software community, it's been said everyone knows everyone. This can probably be traced back to Atlanta being the home of early big-name software companies MSA and D&B Software, as well as MAPICS, alive and kicking today as a large manufacturing enterprise vendor.

It's also leading to some interesting permutations. Example: Visiprise, a vendor of manufacturing visibility solutions with product ties to Industrial Computer Corp. (ICC), the pioneering manufacturing execution vendor whose solutions were eventually sold to Teradyne. Its Java-based manufacturing execution system, the only one of its kind, eventually became the property of bubble-baby, supply chain-oriented NetVendor, which at one point was poised to change the world, and has now come back to earth—and the plant floor—as Visiprise.

Carter Johnson, VP, strategy and business development for Visiprise, says that during the ownership changes, significant investments were made in the original ICC product that is now Visiprise Manufacturing, and the company has a bright future in front of it.