Connected Experiences for Consumer Goods: Partners

THE MICROSOFT GLOBAL PARTNER ECOSYSTEM
Microsoft and our Connected Experience partners are dedicated to delivering solutions that help consumer goods companies better connect information, system, and people. We help customer build a significant competitive advantage in a dynamic industry environment by delivering value today, and driving innovation for the future.

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Accenture
For companies that want to improve their Web site performance, Accenture offers an innovative approach to designing, building, maintaining, and operating e-commerce business infrastructures. This suite of solutions offers a full range of services-multichannel retail strategy, marketing and merchandising support, usability analysis and design, fulfillment, and customer support services. In addition to substantial cost savings, typical benefits can include increased growth and profitability as a result of deeper customer insights and an enhanced customer shopping experience.Accenture is one of our leading Systems Integrators for development, integration, and implementation of Connecting Enterprise solutions into the consumer goods systems environment.
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Apriso
Apriso's FlexNet platform provides visibility, adaptability, and real-time control of manufacturing operations across the enterprise and supply chain network. This is accomplished by integrating planning, execution, and control; increasing operational efficiency; and eliminating errors in the production process.
www.apriso.com
AspenTech
AspenTech's Plantelligence suite of products and services help optimize the design, operation, and management of process plants and their supply chains.AspenTech is the largest software company 100% focused on optimizing process manufacturing. We are uniquely able to help process industry companies achieve their operational excellence goals.
www.aspentech.com
Avanade
Avanade offers digital marketing solutions that extend the Microsoft vision of connected experiences to help you reach more customers and build brand loyalty. The Avanade Connected Commerce solution provides a platform for connecting your brand identity across multiple channels and providing the insight you need to give your customers the personalized experience they expect.
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Cactus Commerce
Cactus Commerce Inc. is an e-business software and services provider dedicated to helping companies bring more efficiency to their complex business processes. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Cactus develops and delivers rapidly deployed, cost-effective, and extensible global data synchronization (GDS) and radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions for trading partner integration.
www.cactuscommerce.com
Capgemini
Microsoft partners with leading global systems integrators for development, integration, and implementation of Connecting Enterprise solutions into the retail systems environment. Capgemini is one of our leading Systems Integrators.
www.capgemini.com
CAS
CAS helps consumer products companies "win at the store" by increasing on-shelf availability, improving utilization of trade funds, and improving new product introductions, while reducing costs by automating key activities at headquarters and in the field. With CAS, clients can empower their workforce to make timelier, intelligent decisions at both headquarters and in the field using the only solution that supports the entire closed-loop customer management process: from strategic account planning through retail execution.
www.cas.com
Dassault Systemes
Dassault Systèmes is a world leader in PLM software solutions powered by three-dimensional representation. Their applications and services enable manufacturers of all sizes to digitally design and simulate products, as well as the processes and resources required to manufacture and maintain them.
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GE Intelligent Platforms
GE Intelligent Platforms supplies industrial automation solutions that collect, distribute, control, and visually present information from the plant floor throughout the enterprise.
www.ge-ip.com
Hitachi Consulting
Hitachi Consulting is a recognized leader in delivering proven business and IT solutions to Global 2000 companies. With a balanced view of strategy, people, process and technology, Hitachi Consulting works with companies to understand their unique business needs, and to develop and implement practical business strategies and technology solutions to help companies achieve total business transformations.
www.hitachiconsulting.com
Infor
Infor is successfully helping more than 70,000 customers around the world do business better. We deliver proven, business-specific software solutions with experience built in. Our domain experts in every solution area have the know-how to help our customers worldwide address their specific business problems and lower their total cost of IT ownership. Our solutions are easier to buy, easier to deploy, and easier to manage. And to meet customers' long-term needs, we are providing a smooth evolutionary path to support continuing business and technology innovation.
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Infosys
Infosys Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: INFY) was started in 1981 by seven people with US$ 250. Today, we are a global leader in the "next generation" of IT and consulting with revenues of over US$ 4 billion. Infosys defines, designs and delivers technology-enabled business solutions that help Global 2000 companies win in a Flat World. Infosys also provides a complete range of services by leveraging our domain and business expertise and strategic alliances with leading technology providers. Infosys pioneered the Global Delivery Model (GDM), which emerged as a disruptive force in the industry leading to the rise of offshore outsourcing. The GDM is based on the principle of taking work to the location where the best talent is available, where it makes the best economic sense, with the least amount of acceptable risk. Infosys' offerings span business and technology consulting, application services, systems integration, product engineering, custom software development, maintenance, re-engineering, independent testing and validation services, IT infrastructure services and business process outsourcing.
www.infosys.com
Invensys
Wonderware is the market leading software solutions and ecosystem brand for real-time operations management software and associated ecosystem partners providing solutions for: Supervisory HMI, GeoSCADA, Mobile Operations, Production Management, MES, Performance Management, EMI, and integration with asset management, supply and demand chain and ERP applications. Wonderware is a brand offering of the Operations Management Division of Invensys.
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Manhattan Associates
Manhattan Associates provides complete supply chain solutions to help manufacturers drive down inventory levels, reduce costs, and increase customer service.As a leading supply chain solutions provider, Manhattan Associates enables source-to-consumption operational excellence with its demand intelligence, advanced planning, supply chain planning, and supply chain execution solutions. These solutions leverage state-of-the-art technologies, innovative industry-specific practices, and Manhattan Associates' deep domain expertise, enabling the company's 1,200 customers worldwide to enhance profitability, performance, and competitive advantage.
www.manh.com
OSIsoft
Together, OSIsoft and Microsoft help empower enterprise manufacturers and utilities to gain a competitive advantage by presenting people with dynamic operational, business, and energy data they can use to make better-informed decisions while driving excellence across the value chain.
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Profitbase
Profitbase is a technology leader in delivering rapidly deployed business intelligence (BI) and planning solutions to retailers, healthcare providers, manufacturers, and many other markets throughout the world. Our solutions include software tools and out-of-the-box templates that enable deployment times, cost and risk to be significantly reduced. Our solutions provide businesses with one consolidated view of information resulting in 360 degree visibility to all aspects of business performance and accelerate planning cycles enabling users to plan, track and act on performance based on their roles in the organizations.
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PTC
PTC's solutions provide comprehensive tools for ensuring products are designed strategically, built efficiently, and presented accurately. PTC’s flexible, configurable PLM solution serves the needs of an expanding number of manufacturers in consumer product categories, including toys, office supplies, furniture, home goods, jewelry, tools, appliances and sporting goods.
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Razorfish
Razorfish helps industry leaders build great brands by creating engaging experiences for consumers wherever they live in the digital world, ranging from Surface screens to blogs.! We believe the future of marketing is not about recycling TV spots or banner ads on websites. Marketing is about harnessing the social and immersive nature of digital to build memorable experiences with consumers and empowering those consumers to share your brand with each other.! Our clients put digital at the core of their ability to improve, even transform, their businesses. To help our clients, we apply offerings that encompass digital advertising, website design, search, email, analytics, and social media, among other capabilities!
www.razorfish.com
RedPrairie
RedPrairie is the world's leading consumer-driven optimization company. Built on an advanced Service Oriented Architecture developed over the past 10 years, the RedPrairie integrated suite of end-to-end solutions offers on-demand capabilities to more than 25,000 sites worldwide for many of the world's largest companies. RedPrairie's Supply Chain Execution (SCE) suite of solutions streamline workflow and communications between your company and its trading partners, suppliers, and carriers across all logistics processes to eliminate obstacles and bottlenecks that can delay delivery, disappoint customers, and erode profits. RedPrairie enables customer-centricity by providing the retail industry's only demand-driven technology and services to optimize the customer experience at the store level, while supporting essential headquarters operations and efficient, multichannel supply chain execution.
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Rockwell Automation
The Rockwell Software unit offers industrial automation and production management software. Its RSView32 is an integrated, component-based human-machine interface for process monitoring and automation.
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Siemens PLM
Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division, is a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services with over 6 million licensed seats and 56,000 customers worldwide. Siemens PLM Software works collaboratively with companies to deliver open solutions that help them turn more ideas into successful products. Whether it's increasing your speed to market or decreasing re-work loops, Siemens PLM Software can help you improve your innovation process and increase the probability of introducing the next mega brand.
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Telligent
Telligent is an enterprise collaboration and community software company. Our fully-integrated platform and portfolio of applications transform how organizations listen to, engage, and measure interaction with customers, partners, and employees.
www.telligent.com
TXT e-solutions
TXT e-solutions has provided supply chain management solutions to medium and large enterprises for 20 years in industries including consumer goods, retail, and fashion and apparel. TXT provides unique collaborative solutions connecting supply chain to other functions within an organization such as sales and operations planning and product lifecycle management, both positively acknowledged by analysts. Customers worldwide have enabled TXT to capture the needs most critical to organizations today. With rich demand management and supply planning functionality, TXT provides capabilities for supply chain profitability and performance management; a differentiator for TXT. The extensive use of Microsoft technology and integrated modules support a simplified IT landscape strategy.
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Vendor Managed Technologies
VMT's mission has been to improve sell-through and eliminate demand chain inefficiencies through the development of strategic technology and the application of decades of retail experience. VMT's vision of leveraging sales, category management and supply/demand chain technology along with its retail expertise to track and manage product - from the moment you make or receive it to the instant it is scanned at the register - has resulted in a suite of affordable, off-the-shelf, common-sense software solutions and services. VMT's solutions focus on a complete, end-to-end sales and demand chain process that is consumer-driven.
www.retailvelocity.com
Wipro
Wipro is a global IT services company that leverages comprehensive business and technology solutoins across diverse domains. Along with an innovative edge, we deliver solutions that strategically align your business needs to the latest that technology offers.
www.wipro.com