Data Management

SAP announced this week that it will acquire Business Objects for $6.8 billion.

Elmer's Products selects Kewill's multi-carrier shipping management system to extend the company's distribution capabilities.

Litehouse Foods Makes Better and Faster Decisions

Elmer's Products Inc. -- which produces perhaps the most well known line of consumer adhesives --will deploy Kewill Flagship, an enterprise class, multi-carrier shipping management system, to extend the organization's distribution capability.

Delhaize Group selects Trintech Group's AssureNET GL to improve compliance process efficiency.

Dassault Systemes announces the availability of the ENOVIA MatrixOne PLM FastTrack for Apparel, a PLM solution specifically geared toward the needs of small and medium-sized companies in the apparel industry.

OATSystems announces the immediate availability of its Asset Tracking and Work-in-Process Solution, which has been implemented at a number of customer sites, including Hewlett-Packard Brazil and Tesco, and enables industrial, aerospace and automotive manufacturers as well as retailers to improve asset visibility and utilization, enhance work-in-process manufacturing, increase supply chain efficiencies, reduce shrink and error-proof deliveries.

In a joint project, Bosch Corporate Information Technology, part of Robert Bosch GmbH, and PTC global services are going to implement Windchill PDMLink to better manage Pro/ENGINEER data, which is the standard CAD/CAM/CAE solution at many Bosch business divisions.