CDC Software completes acquisition of Categoric SCEM firm

Categoric provides real-time information about the status and results of supply chain operations, helps predict issues before they arise, and alerts users on exceptions or problems, according to Bruce Cameron, president of CDC Software. He gives examples as delayed shipments or damaged goods, both requiring immediate corrective action. And he point out that the solution includes Sarbanes-Oxley auditing and compliance capabilities. For Cameron, it's all about being able to handle so-called complex event processing (CEP) in the supply chain context – with security, business intelligence and fraud detection. And he should know: under an OEM agreement, Categoric's supply chain event management technology has been used in CDC Software's products for several years. Future releases of its supply chain event management solutions will, he says, now be developed at the company's Nanjing, China engineering centre. "We will be leveraging our China product engineering operations, which we expect will add more cost efficiencies to the development of future Categoric product releases," says Cameron. "Categoric helps us expand the breadth of our enterprise applications offerings and create new cross-sell opportunities throughout our customer base," he adds.