The New Factory-to-Business Market Segment for Industry B2B to F2B: Discovering Factory-to-Business Missing Link

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The New Factory-to-Business MarketSegment for
IndustryB2B to F2B Discovering
Factory-to-Business Missing Link

• Front-office applications have been unable to
  connect the enterprise to emerging, new
  manufacturing and production demands as a
  result, there is new interest in effective
  factory-to-business (F2B) solutions.

Industrial Automation Analyst Team Frost
Sullivan
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Key Features

• Detailed insights into recent developments and
  trends
• Drivers, restraints, challenges, and strategic
  recommendations
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  applications
• in the new factory-to-business market segment
• Market-sizing and competitive analysis
• Market forecasts and opportunity analyses
• Quarterly assessments
• End-user analysis

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  opportunities
• New Entrants
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  needs of the market
• Investment Community
• Analyze long-term strategies of companies
• Determine which participants will outperform the
  competition
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  market

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Key Market Participants
ABB Advanced Digital Research, Inc. AlterSys Ameri
can Software, Inc. Apriso Aspen Technology,
Inc. The Baan Co. Camstar Cisco
Systems Compac EDS e-Manufacturing Networks,
Inc. Emerson Entivity Epic Data The Foxboro
Co. General Electric GE Cisco Industrial
Networks Gen Rad, Inc. Honeywell POMS
Corp. Hewlett Packard IBM Corp.
Intellution IndX Software Corp. Intermec
Technologies Corp. Lantronics Lighthammer Made2Man
age Manugistics MDSI, Inc. Microsoft
Corp. Optiant, Inc. Oracle Corp. Rockwell
Automation SAP Schneider Electric, Inc. Simatic
Net Sun Microsystems, Inc. Software Horizons,
Inc. Symbol Technologies SynQuest, Inc USDATA
Corp. Verano Wonderware Corp.
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