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INDUSTRY NEWS FULL COVERAGE MA NEWSLETTER TO SUBSCRIBE GO TO OF EVENTS AND ANALYSIS WWW.MANAGINGAUTOMATION.COM managingautomation.com Alliances, Executive Appointments, Mergers & Acquisitions, Products news For the maonline in perspective BY JEFF MOAD Record APPOINTMENTS Tech Vendors Defy Economic Slump by Plugging into Developing World Growth lthough economic uncertainty persists 30. The company said it was able to defy the throughout most of the world’s develslowing economy in North America by leveraging oped countries, publicly owned strong growth in Asia and Latin America, where vendors of plant automation and many customers are building out manufacturing enterprise software products enjoyed surprisinfrastructure. Rockwell also saw strong demand ingly strong financial results in their recently from the booming oil and gas vertical market. concluded reporting periods. At the same time, Rockwell saw project and The manufacturing industry’s key technolspending delays from pharmaceutical, life sciogy vendors are not out of the ences, and automotive manufacturers stagnant economic waters yet, in North America during the most however. Many, in fact, predict recent quarter. slower growth in the second half of “We are operating in a bifurcated 2008 and into 2009 as some manuworld economy,” said Rockwell CEO facturers are expected to defer Keith Nosbusch, explaining the strong technology purchases until the curresults despite the slowing U.S. econrent economic downturn eases. omy. “Buoyant growth in emerging Vendors of plant automation softmarkets coincides with sluggish growth ware and services, such as Rockwell in developed countries.” Keith Nosbusch Automation, Honeywell, ABB, Other automation vendors saw Schneider Electric, and Emerson Electric all benesimilar dynamics. Swiss automation and engifited from soaring demand from customers in neering giant ABB said that in its second fiscal developing economies, particularly in Asia, as quarter, ended June 30, the company for the well as a growing need among manufacturers to first time saw orders from emerging markets, become more energy-efficient. such as China, India, and the Middle East, exRockwell, for example, reported a 15% rise in ceed those from mature market countries. revenue during its third fiscal quarter, ended June Riding that wave, ABB reported a 27% jump in CIMTEK expanded its management team with the appointment of Alex Bonham as professional services director. Dyadem hired Stephen Dunn as vice president of global alliances. PAS added Grant Ostvig as new managing director of Middle East operations. ProSoft Technology named Gary Joke president and CEO after the death of President and founder Doug Sharratt. A CONTRACTS ABB won a $28 million contract to install power equipment in a new steel plant in Turkey. Honeywell will design and install the core process and safety systems for a new polysilicon plant under construction by Hoku Scientific. Plastics Molding Technology, Inc., a custom insert molding company, implemented IQMS’ Enterprise IQ LE ERP software package. Boeing signed a license agreement to extend Siemens PLM Software’s Teamcenter, digital lifecycle management deployment. Emerson Network Power selected Silver Creek Systems’ DataLens System to Continued on page 15 BI/PM Spending Still on Upward Paths U.S. spending on business intelligence and performance management software will reach $6.07 billion in 2008, an increase of 3.4% versus 8.3% in 2007, according to a report from AMR Research. Early this year, AMR surveyed 411 IT and business leaders in China, Europe, and the United States about their BI and performance management spending plans. Among U.S. respondents, BI and analytics infrastructure products are expected to achieve double-digit increases this year — 11% and 11.8%, respectively — while spending for planning, budgeting, and forecasting products will decline 9.5%, a slide that AMR said it had not anticipated, given interest generated by market consolidation moves. Looking ahead to 2009, 84% of the buyers worldwide said their BI/PM spending would increase or stay the same. Only 9% of respondents foresaw a decline in spending. Given that outlook, AMR predicted sustained BI/PM spending growth through 2012. NUMBERS U.S. PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE GROWTH Business intelligence Dashboard and scorecards Planning, budgeting and forecasting Analytics applications Analytics infrastructure 2008 $1,027M $1,135M $866M $857M $1,060M $948M $1,712M $1,542M $1,403M $1,386M Change 11.0% Change 1.2% Change -9.5% THE Change 1.1% Source: AMR Research Change 11.8% BY 2007 ma 10 2008 September http://www.managingautomation.com http://www.managingautomation.com

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Managing Automation - September 2008 Contents Take 1 Letters Tech Vendors Defy Economic Slump by Plugging into Developing World Growth New E2open Chief Outlines Plan to Accelerate Growth Is This Marketing as It Used to Be or Something New? The OMAC Group Attempts to Widen Its Influence Automation Federation Names Chief, Plots Growth Notes Cover story: The Innovation Gap Special Report: Meet the Progressive Manufacturing High Achievers Progressive Manufacturer of the Year Business Model Mastery Innovation Mastery Customer Mastery Supply Network Mastery Data & Integration Mastery Education & Training Mastery Leadership Mastery Operational Excellence Mastery Special Report: Catching the Wireless Wave Part 1: No Clear Infrastructure Winner Part 2: Wireless Apps Take Wing Part 3: The Human Side of Wireless Product Scan Advertiser Index Next

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