IBM has agreed to purchase all the shares of product
information management software company Trigo
Technologies.
Trigo's products helps corporate users to integrate and manage
comprehensive product information across the breadth of an
enterprise and/or a supply chain.
The company's middleware products also link product-related
information with terms of trade, including pricing, and then
synchronise this information internally with users' enterprise
systems as well as business partners.
IBM believed the deal will extend its portfolio of integration
middleware that is part of its WebSphere line of products, and
enhance its ability, and that of its business partners, to assemble
more complete middleware solutions that can access a centralised
source of integrated product information.
"We think Trigo complements our middleware portfolio perfectly,"
said Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive, in
charge of IBM's Software Group.
"The benefit to our customers will be in our ability to deliver
sophisticated, industry-specific middleware solutions that enable
customers to introduce new products rapidly, improve their supply
chain operations and customer service and enhance business
performance."
Trigo officials said their product information management
middleware can supply product information for WebSphere Commerce
solutions and can deliver multimedia content managed by IBM's DB2
Content Manager. It can also deliver detailed product information
to corporate users, trading partners, and employees through
WebSphere Portal.
Ed Scannell writes for InfoWorld
