Group Inc. software (Nasdaq of JDA: JDAS) is a total supplier in front of software and of professional services integrated for the chain of a request into the detail with more than 4.600 customers and 33 offices spanning each principal global market to maintain the customers in more than 60 nations. JDA believes that the sound has the total sales and the infrastructure of the delivery. To knowing, the supplier launches his products and services almost exclusively by his direct personnel of sale, who, for Americas, is based in Scottsdale, Arizona (US), with fifteen sales and regional offices of support through the USA, Canada, and the Latin America. JDA also has the international representatives of sales located in almost twenty support and sales offices in the important cities in the whole of Europe, of Asia, of Australia, and Japan.

JDA was a leading vendor of good-of-multiplies solutions of software conceived specifically to address the management of chain of offer and request (SCM), processes of businesses, decision-making aid, e-business, optimization of inventory, and conditions of collaboration of planning and forecasts of the industry of the trade to the detail and suppliers with the industry of the trade to the detail. These solutions aim at making it possible customers to control and to optimize their inventory runs in all the chain of request in the consumer, and provides optimized work programming for operations of retail store. The supplier 'the businesses of solutions of software of S is increased and supported by his specific professional services of detail and supplier.

JDA 'customers of S included roughly up to now 4.600 of the world 'detail of S of the main thing, the manufacturers and the wholesalers of the goods packed by consumer (CPG). The supplier could probably have the greatest base installed of customer to the detail among his direct competitors, with more than 1.200 customers to the detail in more than 60 countries and almost 3.300 manufacturers and wholesalers of CPG. Some customers of capital are AEON Company Ltd., Anheuser-Busch Companies, Carrefour, Colgate-Palmolive, CVS Pharmacy, Inc., General Dollar Corporation, Energizer Holdings, Inc., Estee Lauder Companies, Inc., H.E. Limited Butt Grocery Company, Kroger Company, stores, of Meijer, stores of Michaels, Sodimac, Tesco, and Wal-Mart.

Moreover, JDA pawns to continue occasions incipient from chain of provisioning in all the world sectors of detail and manufacture. With this new economic model, JDA envisages to build on the collective booklet of JDA to allow its customers combined to carry out a new level of operational excellence. The goal is to combine without seam all this necessary information to lead decisions with the sophisticated software which allows these rich person of data called of phenomenon of decisions-a. In other words, JDA wants that its customers can count on one company-JDA-with the external data of trust with internal data of company and customer to ensure the decision making effective and based on the most possible knowledge. The supplier envisages to establish these possibilities as a definition and differentiation characteristic of his solutions of PortfolioEnabled of next generation during the next months and years.

Jim Armstrong, now JDA 'President of S, first launched services of software of JDA to Calgary, Canada in 1978, which became either one of Canada 'companies based on the technology of S of largest IBM for the semi-market. In 1985, Armstrong sold the Canadian businesses, and, with a associate, formed Scottsdale, the software Arizona-based of (US) JDA, that nowadays, has more than $200 million (of USD) in the incomes and uses more than 1.300 associated functioning starting from 33 offices in the important cities as a whole with North America, of South America, of Europe, of Asia, and Australia.

Since 1998, JDA achieved nine following acquisitions:

  * capital of the solutions to the detail of Timera, a realizer of the integrated solutions of management of labour for the detail and the industry of CPG, in January 2004;

  * the capital of engages, an announcing supplier of company, marketing and solutions of software of promotion (amp) for the industry of the trade to the detail, in August 2003;

  * capital of the solutions of software of Vista, a supplier of the solutions of collaboration of trade for the detail and the industry of CPG, in May 2003;

  * capital of trade of J, a realizer into private held of the solutions Java-based of the sales outlet (position) for the retailers, in April 2002;

  * E3 Corporation, the total supplier of the solutions of optimization of inventory (grouping for example, of store-level, planning of set, filling, etc), in September 2001;

  * the capital of the products of NeoVista, including the mining technology of data of series of decision, by increases software, in June 2001;

  * Software of Zapotec, a supplier of place of the segment of management of commercial allowance, in February 2001, with old products of ProMax and AdPlan conceived to integrate the execution of publicity and budgets, analytics, research, purchase of media and contents of goods, and advance promotional of commercial allowance;

  * capital of the management solutions of space of Intactix de Pricer ab in April 2000; and

  * capital of unit of company to the detail of Arthur of old Comshare, Inc. (maintaining part of the computers of Geac), gaining its continuation of company of the solutions of strategic strategic planning, in June 1998.

Continuous JDA to invest the important resources in advancing the booklet of JDA, its continuation of good-of-multiplies the products which control and optimize processes of chain of a request to the detail of the end products to the control of customer, and which gone them of supplier to the retailers in the whole world with annual sales of $100 million (of USD) or more, by which more than 1.200 of its existing customers to the detail have at least one of its multiple products, which provides a significant cross-country race and towards the occasion high-sells. Several acquisitions mentioned above, in particular of Arthur, Intactix, E3, and Vista made it possible to the supplier to further increase his base from customer to include almost 3.300 suppliers with the industry of the trade to the detail and the additional applications of software which allow (B2B) planning, the forecasts and the filling of collaboration of company to company (CPFR) between the retailers and their suppliers.

For example, at the beginning concentrated on retailers, JDA had gained a strong presence among manufacturers of CPG by Intactix 'acquisitions, whereas the strong presence of E3 'of S in the host centres and the wholesalers of distribution of retailer had very safe achieved the insurance of the chain of provisioning to the detail. These acquisitions, as well as investments JDA while waiting made to increase the evolutionarity of its products, allowed him to continue occasions incipient from growth in the chain of a request with the detail and to further increase its targets to include greater multinational organizations with the detail and roughly 26.000 suppliers with the industry of the trade to the detail in the whole world with annual sales of $100 million (USD) or more.


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