Manugistics

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Manugistics is a software application for resource planning and supply chain management, used by corporations in North America, the UK, and Ireland.

Manugistics is also the name of the company that develops and markets this and other applications. The Manugistics supply-chain application was originally written in APL.

[edit] History

The company was originally known as Scientific Time Sharing Corporation (STSC), formed in 1969 in Bethesda, Maryland with some of the people who originally implemented APL programming language as a language at IBM. In 1970, STSC released APL*PLUS, a new version of the APL language with many extensions oriented toward allowing to develop business applications.

1979 - the company name was changed to STSC, Inc.
1982 - APL*PLUS/PC launched, the first version of APL on the personal computer
1982 - acquired by Continental Telecom Inc.
1992 - name changed to Manugistics
1993 - initial public offering
1995 - the APL product line was sold to LEX2000, Inc.
1999 - Cognos Corporation acquired LEX2000

Continued financial concerns for almost a decade starting in 1998, tough competition from vendors of similar software and a crash of the dot com boom heralded the steady deterioration of this famed Supply chain software company. After struggling for 9 years, it returned to positive numbers in 2006 and finally was sold off to rival retail-demand-chain software maker, JDA Software [1].

Manugistics is now headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, the headquarters of JDA.