Released in July 1994, Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains (formerly Great Plains eEnterprise) is designed for a range of businesses, from smaller companies with less than $5 million in annual revenue to midsize and corporate enterprises with revenues in the hundreds of millions. An enterprise-wide, integrated solution, Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains provides functionality for financials, inventory and order processing, human resource management, customer relationship management (CRM), field service, e-commerce, project management, manufacturing, and analytics and reporting.
For more information, see the following articles
How Great Is Great Plains' Manufacturing Offering (Did Somebody Say Microsoft)?
Microsoft Great Plains Procures eProcure At Last
visit the product homepage
http://www.greatplains.com/
for more information about Microsoft Business Solutions
http://www.microsoft.com/businesssolutions/
eMPower is the most comprehensive suite of MPM solutions available today. Its open platform provides a collaborative environment for authoring, simulating and optimizing manufacturing processes across the extended enterprise. eMPower helps manufacturing boost enterprise competitiveness by accelerating product introductions and time-to-volume, allowing rapid change implementation, and the fast transfer of processes and best practices. eMPower connects all members of the manufacturing chain - from designers, engineering and manufacturing, to plants and suppliers - and helps them respond to the new challenges created by today's economic and e-business environment. eMPower products are available in several solution sets - each comprising a family of advanced applications for both mechanical and electronics manufacturing including Automotive, Aerospace and Electronics. These industry sets may include: eM-Planner, eM-Plant, eM-Engineer, eMPower for Machining, and eMPower for Quality for most mechanical manufacturing environments; and eMPower PCB Assembly and Test, eMPower Box Build, and eMPower Execution Systems for electronics manufacturing.
For more information, see the company's website
http://www.tecnomatix.com