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Delfour.... Headwater Technology Solutions Inc. has acquired Delfour. “The Delfour purchase is part of a strategy to provide enterprise solutions to the distribution and supply chain marketplace”, Luft said. “Headwater will continue to extend its platform of applications and horizontal capabilities to a broadening universe of customers with other strategic acquisitions”. The company’s goal is to achieve critical mass in the markets it addresses by growing profitably through acquisitions and organic opportunities.

Headwater provides professional services based on the SAP and Microsoft platforms for enterprise optimization solutions. This includes project management, requirements definition, solution architecture, implementation, training and rollout. The company focuses on Warehouse Management, RF & RFID, Materials Management and SAPconsole. Headwater is a Microsoft Premier Project Partner, Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and Tenrox Partner. Headwater has further leveraged its SAP and Microsoft expertise through ‘Mobius’, a software solution that facilitates bi-directional communication between SAP and Microsoft Project Server. The company has established a strong Canadian presence with over 75 customers (largely comprising of the FP500) with offices in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa. For more information, visit www.headwater.ca. Historically, Headwater Technology Solutions has focused on the SAP and Microsoft environments, while SmartEnterprise 2 solutions run in Oracle environments under both the Unix and the Linux operating systems.

Intermec and METRO Group Achieve 99 Percent RFID Pallet Tag Read Rates at METRO Group Distribution Center; Located in Unna, Germany, the distribution center is equipped with Intermec IF5 Intelligent RFID readers and RFID tags powered by Intermec. With more than 50,000 pallets read to date, METRO is enjoying 99% tag read-rates, as well as complete compliance with ETSI radio standards for operation in Europe. Intermec Intellitag(TM) RFID offers feature-rich UHF Generation 2 technology with user-requested capabilities.

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Oracle Cuts 5,000 jobs in PeopleSoft Merger. Cuts are primarily outside of product development. "By retaining the vast majority of PeopleSoft technical staff, Oracle will have the resources to deliver on the development and support commitments we have made to PeopleSoft customers over the last 18 months," Get this - Pink Slips were MAILED to effected employees (a no-no in human relations!). Oracle to support PeopleSoft products through 2013

Tecsys to acquire Application Solutions, a Canadian provider of warehouse management solutions and system integration services. Dave Brereton, executive chairman of Tecsys, said: "We are ... broadening our warehouse management solutions (WMS) practice to include the AS400 family and positioning us as an early leader in Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) projects and mobile WMS solutions."

ASI has more than forty (40) customers with over three hundred (300) installations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe. The customer base includes companies in food, automotive, electronics, music, apparel, paper and pharmaceutical industries. Some of the brand name clients are: Honda Canada, Adidas, Schenker, Panasonic-Technics, Konica Minolta, Cascades, Philips Canada, Bayer and Cinram.

ASI has a proven track record of successfully completing complex systems integration in the WMS market. The company has had significant experience in RFID solutions with several of its clients. In addition, ASI's solutions have integrated with key ERP solutions in the market including SAP, SSA, Oracle/PeopleSoft/JDE, and MS Business Solutions. In 2002, ASI completely re-architected its WMS software platform with leading edge technologies to provide both investment protection for its existing customers as well as winning new WMS opportunities on the IBM iSeries platform.

Vastera.... JPMorgan Chase to Acquire Vastera. Vastera, a provider of global trade management solutions, will be acquired by and combined with the Logistics and Trade Services businesses of JPMorgan Chase's Treasury Services unit. Under the Agreement and Plan of Merger, Vastera shareholders will receive $3.00 for each outstanding share of Vastera common stock they own, for a total transaction value of approximately $129 million. "Through this combination, JPMorgan Chase will be the first global financial institution to offer a complete integrated cash, trade and logistics solution across the physical and financial supply chains in a way that maximizes benefits to our clients," said Paul Simpson, Emerging Payments and Global Trade Services Business Executive for the Treasury Services unit of JPMorgan Chase. "Moving forward, this combination gives us scale and capabilities that are unmatched in the market place."

Vertex Interactive has acquired the Cape Systems Group for $2 million in cash. Cape Systems provides palletising & packaging configuration, and truck/container loading software that improves pallet and truck utilisation, and reduces packaging, storage and transportation costs.

The enlarged company, which is intended to operate under the Cape Systems name, will continue to serve customers from its primary offices in Allen, TX; South Plainfield, NJ; and the United Kingdom; as well as through a reseller network spanning five continents.

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