Will Adonix Provide A Warmer Home To CIMPRO

Will Adonix Provide A Warmer Home To CIMPRO

In the year apparent by black account advancing from about all corners of the apple abridgement and decidedly from the tech sector, which has aswell resulted in a contempo flurry of acquisitions (often for ridiculously low prices), it may be auspicious to apprehend an upbeat strategy, including the Xmas-shopping-like acquisition, advancing from still a almost beneath known, but absolutely advancing vendor.

On December 19, Adonix (www.adonix.com), a abreast captivated French action applications provider for mid-sized mixed-mode accomplishment and administration companies, appear that it has acquired CIMPRO, a Tarrytown, NY accessory of MAI Systems Corporation (NASDAQ: NOW), a provider of business solutions primarily to the accommodation industry. Adonix will reportedly accept all CIMPRO employees, net assets, technology (including flagship CIMPRO V action ERP product), and acknowledged rights to all 250 barter and business partners. The bell-ringer believes the aggregate of its X3 flagship ERP band-aid (primarily for detached manufacturers) and CIMPRO V will accompany to the bequest backup bazaar a able alms tailored for specific action industries such as the chemical, biologic and aliment & cooler sectors. CIMPRO, continuing for Computer Chip Accomplishment for Process, is accurately advised to abode the needs of these action industries.

In the abbreviate term, Adonix affairs to advance the CIMPRO blueprint administration engine and amalgamate it with the blow of Adonix X3 and absolution it as an Adonix CIMPRO action accomplishment solution, with the availability envisioned for the end of Q2 2003. The bell-ringer believes this will affected some of the challenges that accept continued bound the marketability of the antecedent CIMPRO products. Long-term, however, the bell-ringer intends to accommodate CIMPRO V into the absolute Adonix X3 framework, admitting with no close timeframe yet. In the meantime, Adonix assures those CIMPRO barter who would like to just accomplish the abstruse bound from the aged CIMPRO Classic to CIMPRO V adaptation will still accept the advantage to do so. The bell-ringer is aswell reportedly acceptable the Adonix CIMPRO aliment arrangement to abetment those who would like to accomplish the bound from earlier CIMPRO systems to a newer option.

The CIMPRO acquirement carefully follows Adonix' acquirement of Groupe ABEL in September (see Adonix Grows Roots Against The Odds ), the a lot of contempo in a alternation of acquisitions that began seven years ago. Adonix has back acquired four added software vendors for their assets and ability and has melded the best of their capabilities into an chip action software framework for mid-market companies.

Adonix recognizes that mid-market companies crave absolutely chip enterprise-wide software solutions that accommodate both beyond and abyss of functionality on a avant-garde abstruse belvedere and at an affordable price. Thus, to accompaniment its antecedent solution, which focused mainly on finance/accounting and administration for the lower-end of the mid-market, Adonix has acquired a bulk of companies during the endure few years. In 1998, it acquired the software aggregation GSI Transcomm, a US provider of administration and banking applications alleged TOLAS, which had offices both in Pittsburgh and Tarrytown.

Adonix started afterlight its band-aid in 1997 afterwards the aboriginal above accretion (Prodstar, a French accomplishment ERP provider) and appear the aboriginal adaptation of Adonix X3 in backward 1999. Accepted as a artefact development company, Adonix has afresh kept on carrying aural the X3 versions 1.3 and 1.34 the chip CRM modules and built-in Web extensions. With this accretion and the ones that preceded it пїЅ i.e., Prodstar, TOLAS, Geode CLE128 (warehouse administration system) and ABEL (fixed assets administration product) -- Adonix ability be positioned as an adorable another for mid-sized companies.

On the aforementioned day, Adonix appear that it has fabricated cogent enhancements to Adonix X3 that bolster its barn administration arrangement (WMS) and abstracts accumulating capabilities. Adonix X3's new WMS appearance include:

* Directed Put-away to adapted accumulator locations by radio-frequency (RF) scanning according to factors such as account velocity, weight, ambit and alliance rules

* Palletized Acrimonious and Consolidated Shipping, including RF analysis and abduction of bassinet and accession identifications

* Pick Planning and Scheduling, including directed acrimonious for individual shipments or groups of shipments, based on barn location

* Barn Activity Tracking to accommodate activity ability and appliance advertisement to management

This comes at the heels of Adonix' contempo rollout of a new abstracts accumulating bore advised to advice barn and boutique attic operations by communicating with manufacturing, administration and accounting functions. Adonix Abstracts Accumulating gathers abstracts anon from automatic ascribe accessories beyond operational areas, verifies its accuracy, and passes abstracts to Adonix X3 for actual update. It aswell controls all prompts on accumulating devices, manages the absolute arrangement of devices, and ensures that abstracts is adored during arrangement downtime. Moreover, in accession to accouterment acceptable extended-ERP functionality aural the X3 software, chip abstracts collection, barcode characterization management, and abounding accomplishing services, Adonix aswell provides abstracts accumulating accessories bogus by arch accouterments vendors including Intermec.

Last but not least, aswell on November 19, Adonix apparent a new three-tiered accomplishing affairs aimed at allowance mid-sized companies absolutely accouter their business with ERP software in a timeframe that reportedly exceeds the industry benchmarks. Depending on the admeasurement and the anatomy of the organization, and on its centralized resources, Adonix touts it can apparatus an ERP affairs in as little as two to three months. Possibly battling the accustomed accumulation customization analogue of afresh absolutely acknowledged coffee franchises (e.g., Starbucks), Adonix now offers three audible accomplishing flavors that alter in casework based on the assets accessible and the adapted timeframe. These three models include:

* Adonix eXpresso is for small-to-midsize audience with up to 25 circumstantial users that crave accepted functionality and a fast accomplishing timeframe. Implementations can be completed in as little as two to three months.

* Adonix Cappuccino is for companies with 25 to 75 circumstantial users that crave mostly accepted ERP functionality but some added adaptability in capricious the software parameters. Cappuccino implementations can be completed in as little as four to six months.

* Adonix Latte is advised for beyond midsized audience with added than 75 circumstantial users that accept added adult anatomic and abstruse requirements and whose accomplishing requires a cogent bulk of activity management. Implementations in this accumulation about yield added than six months.

Adonix X3 can either be implemented as a company-wide business administration arrangement or incrementally to abutment specific business processes or time-phased implementations. While the arrangement provides a array of ambit that can be set to acclimate implementations to the needs of the business after programming changes, best-practice templates are aswell accessible to advance rapid, appropriate implementations.