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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 Business Objects Chief Says Union with SAP Meets Objectives After One Year lmost a year after SAP’s $8.6 billion Objects controlled 18.2% of the BI software acquisition of Business Objects, the market, while SAP claimed 7.9%, according to a two companies have achieved most of report by Gartner Inc. Since then, Schwarz their initial goals, and the business insaid, Business Objects has continued to grow telligence software vendor is beginning have an its BI market share, despite the current ecoimpact on SAP’s core product strategy and nomic downturn. business practices, said Business Objects CEO “Often after an acquisition, there is a dip in John Schwarz, in a recent interbusiness,” Schwarz said. “We beview with Managing Automation. lieve Hyperion [acquired by OraWhen Business Objects and cle] and Cognos [acquired by IBM] SAP began discussing the acquisihave suffered that fate. We did tion, Schwarz said, the companies not. We have grown every quaridentified three potential benefits: ter since the acquisition. And we to boost SAP’s share of the BI think we will be able to sustain it.” market; to extend SAP’s market Business Objects’ integration opportunity beyond applications; into SAP is largely complete, and to expand SAP’s market beSchwarz said, with coordination of yond its existing customer base. the two companies’ sales forces Since the acquisition, Schwarz and product plans. “Now we are John Schwarz said, SAP has achieved those obin the second stage of integrajectives by combining the Business Objects BI tion,” said Schwarz, now an SAP Executive business with its own while working to retain Board member. “We are looking for opportuthe Business Objects brand and its appeal to nities to take unnecessary duplication out of non-users of SAP applications. the structure.” At the time SAP completed its acquisition of Business Objects has taken a couple of steps Business Objects, on Jan. 15, 2008, Business to remain relevant to non-users of SAP appli- Axeda, an on-demand remote service software company, hired Stephen Habermas as vice president of products. Ketera, an on-demand spend management company, brought in Ryan Ashburn as vice president of sales, Mike Gardner as vice president of products, and Leslie Cedar as vice president of business development. SAP hired John Wookey as executive vice president of large enterprise ondemand. Schneider Electric North America Operating Division appointed George Powers senior vice president, human resources and administration. Siemens IT Solutions and Services named John E. Evers Jr. president and CEO. A CONTRACTS Sri Lankan garment manufacturer Brandix is using Lawson Fashion, an ERP product that is part of the Lawson M3 Enterprise Management System. Beverage company Foster’s Group implemented RedPrairie’s Warehouse Management System in 14 sites in Australia and the United States. Continued on page 13 PLC Market Expects Steady Growth Through 2012 During the next five years, the worldwide market for PLCs is expected to grow 6.5% annually, according to a report by ARC Advisory Group. The PLC market was nearly $9.0 billion in 2007 and is predicted to exceed $12 billion in 2012. The growth rate, which is slower than in previous years, is mainly due to globalization, which is forcing companies in various industries to invest in new capacities. Additional strong growth was noted in building automation, automation demand, and programmable automation controllers (PACs), multi-disciplined controllers that can provide real-time logic, motion, and process control, in addition to HMI and other functions, on a single platform. PLCs, which are used across discrete and process industries, will gain from increased demand for automation in emerging economies and as companies realize the need to conserve energy and cut costs. ARC predicted that PLC-based PAC market growth would be higher than overall PLC market growth. NUMBERS PLC WORLDWIDE OUTLOOK $12 billion $10 billion $8 billion $6 billion Source: ARC Advisory Group THE $4 billion $2 billion 0 BY 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 ma 10 2008 December http://www.managingautomation.com http://WWW.MANAGINGAUTOMATION.COM

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Managing Automation - December 2008 Contents Take 1 Business Objects Chief Says Union with SAP Meets Objectives After One Year Yes, Emerson, Too, Is in the MES Market Infor Chief Puts Off IPO, Restarts Buying Plans Kronos Now Tracks Shop Floor Machines IQMS Rolls Out User Interace, Other Upgrades Notes Five Ideas for Demand Planning Building on the SOA Blueprint Innovation Now A Team Effort Lean %2B Technology = LEAN^2 Finding Flaws Before They Spread Product Scan Advertiser Index Next

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