DALLAS--Aug. 7, 2006--i2 Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:ITWO) today announced that it has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in Gartner's "Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems (TMS), 2006" report, authored by Jeff Woods and published July 18, 2006. The report evaluated over 12 TMS vendors.
"We believe that our position in the Leaders Quadrant in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for transportation management systems confirms our ability to help customers solve complex transportation problems on a global basis," said Razat Gaurav, i2 vice president, Global Transportation and Distribution Management. "With the launch of our new-generation transportation management solution, we are now able to provide unparalleled flexibility and extensibility in terms of user-interfaces, workflows and data models while leveraging the most robust and scalable optimization capability in the industry. Our goal is to continue providing innovative transportation solutions and helping companies achieve global logistics efficiencies across strategic, tactical and operational time-horizons."
Gartner's TMS Magic Quadrant evaluated vendor offerings based on two major criteria: Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. "Leaders in the TMS market have deep and robust functionality to meet a broad range of user requirements. These vendors can support sophisticated and complex transportation strategies for large customers with substantial freight spending. The vendors can also meet the needs of users throughout the transportation process with offerings from strategic planning and procurement through freight payment and audit functionality. Leaders also have a compelling strategy for addressing the ongoing market changes related to the emergence of BPPs, the integration of dedicated fleet assets, and the convergence of WMS and TMS functionality," states the Gartner report.
i2's New-Generation Transportation and Distribution Management solutions have been designed and proven to enable shippers (retailers, manufacturers and distributors) and logistics service providers to design, procure, plan, execute, monitor and measure freight movements across multiple modes, enterprises and countries. This new-generation solution footprint has been integrated to an innovative technology platform through a service-oriented architecture that is designed to allow customers to define unique user-interfaces, workflows, and data-model extensions. This new-generation transportation solution is designed to deliver faster time-to-value, and allow customers to create an innovative solution that is specific to their operating environment while leveraging industry best-practices.
About i2
i2 helps business leaders make better supply chain decisions. i2's flexible new-generation solutions are designed to synchronize demand and supply across ever-changing global business networks. i2's innovative supply chain management tools and services are pervasive in a wide cross-section of industries; 20 of the AMR Research Top 25 Global Supply Chains belong to i2 customers. Learn more at www.i2.com.
About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted July 18, 2006 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
