IDEA’s E-Biz Forum Looks To The Future Of Electrical Product Data
Jim Lucy, <em>EW</em> The 2008 E-Biz Forum marked IDEA’s 10th anniversary, but at this year’s meeting, held Sept. 14-16 on the Maryland bank of the Potomac River, attendees and organizers...
View ArticleEW and EC&M Magazines To Provide Content Access On Trade Service Online Web...
Trade Service, San Diego, will offer access to some content from Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Construction and Maintenance magazines on its new Trade Service Online content and communication...
View ArticleIDEA Partners with Sterling Commerce to Expand E-Commerce Solutions
IDEA, Arlington, Va., has formed a strategic relationship with Sterling Commerce, an AT&T company. Under terms of the agreement, IDEA will offer B2B on-demand read more
View ArticleIDEA and A-D to partner on data synchronization pilot program
IDEA and Affiliated Distributors (A-D) announced that they are teaming up on an exclusive pilot program to improve data synchronization in the electrical industry. read more
View ArticleTrade Service expands with acquisition in office products
Trade Service Co., San Diego, strengthened its position as a data and content solutions provider in the office products market with the purchase of C2Importer product from C2 Elements read more
View ArticlePenton Media Restructures Debt
Penton Media, the company that publishes Electrical Marketing, Electrical Wholesaling, EC&M and about a hundred other business-to-business magazines, websites and conferences, announced today that...
View ArticleEnd Users Speak Out on Distributor Service
Jim Lucy Over the next few months, Electrical Wholesaling and Channel Marketing Group, Durham, N.C., will be conducting a series of surveys of EC&M’s audience on the customer service (or lack of...
View ArticleTrimble Buys Trade Service to Build Out Estimating, Project Management Software
Trade Service Co., San Diego, has been acquired by Trimble, Sunnyvale, Calif., a big name in project management software, estimating systems and related tools for the architecture, engineering and...
View ArticleSAP Acquires Hybris to Build Out Software Tools for Mobile Devices and...
SAP AG, Walldorf, Germany, has acquired hybris, Zug, Switzerland, a developer of e-commerce technology. read more
View ArticleHurtte delivers a manifesto for distributors' fee-based services
Distribution consultant Frank Hurtte, River Heights Consulting, Davenport, Iowa, has put pen to paper and spelled out in detail how distributors can move away from their dependence on "value-added"...
View ArticleDatalliance Partners with Hubbell to Offer Enhanced Returns Processing on VMI...
Datalliance, Cincinnati, has been working with Hubbell to enhance returns-processing capabilities for its Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) platform by further streamlining and automating the process.read...
View ArticleEpicor Software for sale
Epicor Software Corp., owner of the popular Eclipse distribution software package, has been put up for sale by its owner, Apax Partners, a London-based buyout firm. The price for Epicor, which recently...
View ArticleWall Street Journal Articles Say Epicor Software No Longer for Sale
Epicor Software Corp., Austin, Texas, owner of the popular Eclipse distribution software package and legacy Prophet 21, Prelude and Trade Service System software, apparently is no longer on the selling...
View ArticleInfor buys Saleslogix cloud CRM
ERP software provider Infor, New York, agreed to purchase the assets of Saleslogix, Scottsdale, Ariz., a provider of SaaS customer relationship management (CRM) software. Once the deal’s done,...
View ArticleDLC Releases Draft Networked Lighting Control System Specifications
The Design Lights Consortium (DLC), New York, which among other things maintains a Qualified Products List (QPL) of solid-state lighting products and performance characteristics used by utilities in...
View ArticleDistribution Technology Group to Rep Informediate
Distribution Technology Group (DTG), Virginia Beach, Va., the technology rep firm started by industry veteran Stacey Pandeloglou, has signed an agreement to represent Informediate's SourceWare ERP...
View ArticleIDEA looks to next generation of Industry Data Warehouse
IDEA signed an agreement with Stibo Systems, Aarhus, Denmark, to build the next generation of IDEA’s cornerstone service, the Industry Data Warehouse (IDW).read more
View ArticleEpicor to Change Hands – New Owner KKR
After five years of ownership by Apax Partners group of funds, Epicor has agreed to be acquired by the global investment firm KKR.read more
View ArticleKKR closes purchase of Epicor
Joe Cowan continues as president and CEO of Epicor and has aligned the executive leadership team to focus on accelerating growth internationally, expanding the channel business, and further development...
View ArticleIDEA Highlights Manufacturer Data Quality Achievements
More than 50 manufacturer accounts have attained programmatic quality (“excellence”) for at least 95% of their items in the group’s Industry Data Warehouse (IDW)read more
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