Analysts, researchers place their votes for software leadership

Pilgrim Software is 2007 North American Enterprise Compliance & Quality Management Company of the Year in the life sciences industry, as named by New York-based Frost & Sullivan.

Life sciences customers look for quick deployment of solutions to gain competitive advantage. “Our customers appreciate SmartSolve's scalable architecture,” says Ami Utji, CEO, Pilgrim. “The flexibility of the solution allows them to mix and match components to satisfy their specific needs.”

Citect's Ampla manufacturing execution system (MES) has been awarded Best New Application Ported to SAP NetWeaver and Powered by NetWeaver ISV. Ampla MES was NetWeaver-certified in 2006, showing marked reductions in the cost of plant-to-business interoperability while enabling Ampla's key production information to be displayed inside the SAP Enterprise Portal. Supporting continuous-improvement methodologies like Lean and Six Sigma, Ampla delivers fast ROI and sustainable plant performance improvements.

MSI Poland, a magazine associated with Manufacturing Business Technology, has named Apriso best MES Provider 2006 based on annual customer feedback collected by MSI. Apriso users providing input for the award include British American Tobacco, Essilor, and Saint-Gobain Sekurit. These companies are using Apriso FlexNet, a software platform that enables manufacturers to execute operations spread across production, maintenance, quality, time & labor, and the supply chain. By extending their ERP systems, these companies have established visibility and control over their entire manufacturing operations.

Says Jim Henderson, president and CEO of Apriso, “A contributing factor to our users' elevated satisfaction is that FlexNet implementations are generally spread over multiple sites, and across several areas of operations.”