OnProcess Technology, a vendor of applications for post-sale supply-chain management and optimization, has created the OPTvision platform.

Dassault Systèmes, a vendor of product design and lifecycle-management software, has launched Perfect Production.

Analyst Insight: The past few years have seen IT systems moving away from advances in individual functionality to interoperability with complementary systems. Also, there's been a greater emphasis on "democratization" of applications - improving accessibility through cloud-based architectures, mobile computing, lower pricing models and improved user interfaces. We have also seen end products themselves becoming ever smarter through embedded software, making them able to react to their environment and transmit information back to supporting systems. -- Tony Christian, Director, Cambashi