The huge juggernaut slows down slightly
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Market researcher International Data anticipates worldwide revenues for the software industry to increase 13.4% to $102.3 billion in 1996, a small decrease from 1995's 13.5% increase. A number of factors will contribute to the decrease, including continuing price competition, high levels of service demanded by corporate users and the rise of application suites. Growth for certain types of applications declined in 1995. For example, word processing software revenues decreased from $1.3 billion in the US in 1994, to $1 billion in 1995. Furthermore, corporations are demanding high quality services from software suppliers, such as volume discounts, coordinated service and support and other services. Application suites are strangling the single application PC software market. However, foreign software markets are strengthening, particularly in Europe. Also noteworthy is the rise of Internet and Web software packages, which are emerging as market drivers.
Publication Name: Electronic Business Today
Subject: Electronics and electrical industries
ISSN: 1085-8288
Year: 1996
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Integration builds factory of the future
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US factories currently are focusing on providing more flexible and faster production as a way to stay competitive, and many are recognizing that older software is not able to keep up with current business and production settings. Software vendors, in response are working to create object-oriented software and other component-based software to meet the changing requirements on the factory floor. Market research reveals that in 1995 the worldwide market for discrete-manufacturing software had its biggest increase of more than 15%. IBM is one firm that has created novel flexible software and production techniques, enabling the company to cut cycle times for manufacturing printed circuit boards by 70%. One challenge facing software vendors tapping into the need to link planning and management software with shop floor controls is convincing customers to migrate away from proprietary software.
Publication Name: Electronic Business Today
Subject: Electronics and electrical industries
ISSN: 1085-8288
Year: 1996
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Start-up boosts synthesis
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TriQuest Design Automation Inc is a new start-up based in San Jose, CA, that specializes in enhancing synthesis tools in the semiconductor industry. The company was founded Feb 1995 by Jay Roy and Nand Kumar; both founders earned their doctorates at the University of Cincinnati. The company aims to develop tools for the highest level of integrated circuits. The tools will hopefully boost productivity and create the smallest and fastest possible designs. These tools are based on behavioral synthesis and will serve as turbo solutions for preprocessor logic synthesis. They work at the register transfer level (RTL) and employ at least a dozen algorithms to optimize performance and minimize size. The RTL market was valued at $18.3 million in 1995 and is expected to grow at a 24% clip.
Publication Name: Electronic Business Today
Subject: Electronics and electrical industries
ISSN: 1085-8288
Year: 1996
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