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The 25 Most Influential Consumer goods executives that Make a Difference.

As the consumer goods landscape changes due to the mergers and acquisitions driven by the industry's leading players, the question of how the combined companies manage and integrate separate I.S. entities into a new whole becomes paramount for long-term success and efficiencies across the enterprise and supply chain.

Anybody in the technology food chain can tell you that ASP is a handy acronym for application service provider.

While these companies didn't make the best-of-breed lists in their respective categories, they certainly deserve a look as you put together your RFPs for the coming year.

Continuing a trend THAT started last year, the results of this year's CGT Best of Breed survey on the customer relationship management (CRM) market once again shows that consumer goods firms are far from unanimous in their choice of the top provider.

Two of the three new e-business integration players roared to the top of this year's Best of Breed list, with Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) taking first place and IBM (www.ibm.com) second.