The Prolytic team consists of experts in strategic and quantitative market research, consulting and software development. Realizing the acute problems in new product development (NPD), they have distilled their accumulated knowledge into the creation of an interactive NPD software solution, called DELI.

The second main focus of Prolytic is "Pricing and Promotion Optimization". With the "Pricing Tool" Prolytic performs projects, at which the tool analyzes prices of the past and optimizes current prices on the basis of an scientific algorithm. The intention of these projects is the increasing of the client's profit.

> www.prolytic.com

Symphony Metreo helps organizations meet their financial goals of Revenue and Margin with innovative solutions that align and synchronize top-down planning with bottom-up execution by focusing on the strategic levers of Price, Volume and Cost. It’s award winning SymphonyRPM platform is the only integrated enterprise platform for enabling forward-looking performance management and predictive business analytics solutions. SymphonyRPM is deployed at over 100 customers across many industries and is OEM’ed by industry leading ISV partners. Symphony Metreo is a member of the Symphony Technology Group, a $2.1 billion strategic holding company.

> www.metreo.com

Aras® is the leading provider of enterprise open source Product Lifecycle Management [PLM] software solutions. Freedom from licensing eliminates up-front expenses and per user costs while superior technology makes Aras the most advanced enterprise PLM solution suite available. Customers include Motorola, Rolls-Royce, Freudenberg, Lockheed Martin, Ingersoll Rand and ACCO Brands. Aras is privately held with global headquartered in Andover, Mass.

> www.aras.com

As an international full-service IT provider, FIT implements, optimizes, and operates IT systems in SAP environments. The Adicom Software Suite represents FIT's own MES solution (Manufacturing Execution System). F-IT has eleven subsidiaries throughout Europe, the US and Asia.

> www.freudenberg-it.de

IBS AG is one of the leading suppliers of quality management, manufacturing execution and collaborative production management solutions. The quality management system of IBS supports the entire product lifecyle from product development through to manufacturing and product proving.

> www.ibsag.de

itelligence is a leading international IT complete service provider in the SAP environment. As a full service provider itelligence has focused its activities on the SAP business. In addition to consultancy, development and system integration, the licensing business and the division Outsourcing & Services incl. Hosting form the core of the itelligence portfolio.

The industry competence and SAP industry solutions make itelligence a strategic partner of medium-sized companies. The subject competence of SAP’s innovative solutions and future technologies make itelligence a Special Expertise Partner of numerous large customers

> www.itelligence.de

Mieschke Hofmann und Partner is the leading German process and IT consulting company on the automotive market. MHP has grown continuously since it was established in May 1996. MHP serves its customers through our branches in Freiberg a. N., Ludwigsburg, Hattingen/Ruhr and Munich.

As an industry-oriented process and IT consulting specialist, MHP offers in-depth process know-how combined with comprehensive IT expertise to more than 200 renowned customers. The company focus is on automotive manufacturers, suppliers and dealers. However, MHP transfers strategic innovations from projects to other industries as well.

MHP supports customers both strategically and operationally on an international level. Backed up by extensive, international project experience and an established partner network, MHP provides centrally based support for companies in their globalization efforts and worldwide rollouts from their home market in Germany.

> www.mhp.de

Selected Services provides since 2000 integration services for customer- and supplier processes based on the ASP platform POOL4TOOL. The company  focuses on consulting as well as development in the ebusiness and SAP applcation domain.

The hosted Web application POOL4TOOL provides an integration platform for supplier proceses. It features modules for SRM, collaboration, SCM and QDX which are used to optimize the processes in procurement, development, logistics and quality management. 

> www.pool4tool.com

WSW Software GmbH emerged from the automotive supplier Webasto Vehicle Technology Corporation in 1986, and in 1991 we became completely independent. WSW today offers software solutions, SAP add-ons, SAP consulting / implementation. We specialize in the support of logistic processes in the automotive industry, as well as in the trade and manufacturing branches.
Industry-leading companies trust WSW Software for the many years of experience we have gained in the automotive field. These companies benefit from the competence of the WSW experts in EDI and SAP.

> www.wsw-software.de

The Electronic Commerce Competence Centre represents a partnership between four University Institutes and ten Austrian companies whose common purpose is to stimulate research and development as well as knowledge transfer in E-Commerce.

The research association "E-Commerce Competence Center (EC3)" was created after authorisation from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs.

> www.ec3.at

The Lixto company started as a spin-off and still closely cooperates with the Database Systems and Artificial Intelligence Group of the Institute of Information Systems located at the Technical University of Vienna.

The department is well known for excellent scientific work in the areas of semi-structured data tools, web information processing, database theory and applications, model-based diagnosis and configuration, constraint solving and intelligent scheduling.

Theoretical research related to extracting and structuring data is partly outsourced to this group to ensure a solid scientific background of the Lixto Suite.

> www.tuwien.ac.at