Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

New media offers both marketing challenges and opportunities. Consumer goods companies are notoriously late adopters, but as successes are increasingly realized, manufacturers are coming around.

HP and EDS sign a definitive agreement under which HP will purchase EDS at a price of $25.00 per share, or an enterprise value of approximately $13.9 billion. The deal will better position HP to rival IBM in the global IT outsourcing and business process outsourcing markets. Read on to find out the details of the acquisition, plus find out what industry analysts from AMR Research have to say about it.

Product information management and master data management solution capabilities from FullTilt are said to complement QAD's vision.

i2 Technologies introduces Short Product Lifecycle Management to provide business managers with visibility to product costs throughout the supply chain.