Peggy Smedley is the editor of Start Magazine and will be addressing the first annual PRONTO North America Users Conference on Thursday, May 5th. Smedley was recently profiled in the Wall Street Journal and authored Mending Manufacturing, How America Can Manufacture its Survival. She is an award-winning journalist. - TR Cutler, Inc.

OTI, Optimization Technology Inc., located in Mississauga Canada, has been developing and implementing ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems since 1984. The Canadian VARs (Value Added Reseller) customer base appreciates the features built into their legacy systems which focused on individual manufacturing and distribution requirements. With the advent of GUI (Graphical User Interface) it became too difficult to add some of the new productivity features OTI and their clients wanted. - TR Cutler, Inc.

Encompix ETO ERP software leader based in Cincinnati, OH, announced the inclusion of the proprietary ETO Configurator as part of the company's product suite. The ETO Configurator is based on Configure One's concept product and is specifically design for engineer-to-order manufacturers. - TR Cutler, Inc.

E-Z-MRP, the leading manufacturing software system for small manufacturers, announced effective April 15th, there will be a new pricing and product structure. According to Rocky Smolin, founder of Beach Access Software, makers of E-Z-MRP, "We see a distinction between those small manufacturers with less than five hundred parts in material resource planning, and those with a need for unlimited part numbers." - TR Cutler, Inc.

Portland Backup LLC announced today the formation of the Portland Backup Remote Data Trust, a three pronged strategy for ensuring your corporate history is safely stored in case of catastrophic event. - Portland Portals

Neoxen Systems, a European software company developing process management solutions, has today released Release 3.1 of their Neoxen® Modus process improvement suite for Software Life Cycle Management.
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Even within the same IT Department, there are conflicting views regarding the importance of UML tools for Model-Driven Development, DeveloperEye study reveals - MediaDev