IE Index i2 Revenue continues to decline, and Aberdeen put supply chain software vendor i2 Technologies Inc. on its list of "Not" (vs. "Hot) companies on its latest Supply Chain 50 index. MapInfo A rare report of increased revenue over the previous year comes from location-based information application provider MapInfo Corp., with a 24 percent increase. The company also turned around its net loss from last year and came back with a net income of nearly the same absolute number. OpenText Enterprise content management provider OpenText Corp. reported its highest revenue and profit in company history. During its fourth quarter, 74 percent of all license revenue was from new accounts. INDEX LEGEND HOT — On the upswing NOT — Possible trouble ahead STATUS QUO — No change

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Signs of a Rebound. IT spending will strengthen in the second half of 2003, if the Gartner Technology Demand Index is any indication. A weekly poll drawn from the 20,000 members of the Gartner panel of IT decision makers from small, midsize, and large businesses shows that U.S. businesses, on average, are slowly returning to budgeted IT spending levels.

Tool Integration: Now with BI. SAS has become the first major BI vendor to join the Eclipse consortium. Eclipse members are software developers working together to support and promote the Eclipse universal tools integration platform. Other consortium members include Intel, HP, Oracle, SAP, Red Hat, and Fujitsu.

Getting Priorities, and Supply Chains, In Order. Supply chains are crucial to achieving corporate objectives, says a majority of corporate America's chief financial officers — according to a poll by UPS Consulting, the strategic consulting arm of international shipper UPS. Yet only 33 percent of those polled say business and operational plans are well integrated. Furthermore, 62 percent say their companies seem capable of making only incremental improvements today. Determined to change the situation, nearly half of the CFOs plan to play a vital leadership role in supply chain decisions by 2005.

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