MANAGING AUTOMATION

Providing information via the Internet, podcasts and webcasts in the field of business process integration, namely, in the field of business process re-organization; Providing information via the Internet, podcasts and webcasts in the field of customer relationship management; Providing information via the Internet, podcasts and webcasts in the field of enterprise resource planning, namely, providing business planning information; Providing business information and commercial information via the Internet, podcasts and webcasts in the field of manufacturing execution systems and the use of radio frequency identification for products; Providing business information via the Internet, podcasts and webcasts in the field of conducting business via the Internet; Providing information via the Internet, podcasts and webcasts in the field of product information management, namely, providing information in the field of business information management; Providing information via the Internet, podcasts and webcasts in the field of supply chain management and supply chain execution, namely, providing business management information; providing information via the Internet, podcasts and webcasts in the field of business management logistics; Providing information via the Internet, podcasts and webcasts in the field of enterprise management, namely, providing information in the field of managing the business affairs of commercial enterprises; provision of advertising space by electronic means and global information networks, and providing advertising space in a printed periodical; publishing of advertising texts; providing an online searchable advertising guide featuring the goods and services of third-party vendors with information on the vendor's products and services; providing an online searchable database in the field of industrial products being offered for sale by others, namely, enterprise software, radio frequency identification, computers and networking products, and buyer/seller contact information; providing information via the Internet, podcasts and webcasts in the field of business management for commercial enterprises and management of the manufacturing process from product inception and development through sales, product delivery and inventory tracking

Providing an informational resource for manufacturers, whereby manufacturers can communicate electronically through the Internet with participating experts and professionals in various fields of interest to ask questions within the expert's or professional's area of expertise and receive answers posted to a website, namely, providing online electronic bulletin boards for transmission of messages concerning manufacturing, business management of commercial enterprises, and management of the manufacturing process from product inception and development through sales, product delivery and inventory tracking

Providing information via the Internet in the field of warehousing of goods; providing information via the Internet in the field of logistics, namely, providing information in the field of storage, transportation and delivery of goods

Providing an online searchable database of industrial manufacturing information; providing information in the field of the manufacturing process

Providing recognition by the way of presenting awards to demonstrate excellence in the field of introducing technology into business; on-line journals, namely, blogs featuring commentaries, opinions and original reporting about news on industry research, industrial products, e-business, business intelligence, business process integration, industrial control systems, customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, industrial networks, manufacturing execution systems, manufacturing intelligence, product information management, product lifecycle management, radio frequency identification, sensors/vision systems, supply chain management, supply chain execution, plant floor software, robotics and vision, production processes, product development, logistics and warehousing, and general information on enterprise management; Educational services, namely, developing, arranging, and conducting educational conferences and programs for senior technology and business managers in the field of integrating technology into business; providing newsletters in the field of industry research, news on industrial products, opinion columns, case studies and strategies for improving business, and latest insight and analysis for small-to-midsize manufacturing enterprises via e-mail; providing non-downloadable on-line publications in the nature of magazines in the field of advanced technologies used in the manufacturing enterprise

Providing temporary use of non-downloadable software designed to allow users to search a proprietary database of vendors of enterprise applications, analyze and rank results of the search, generate comparison tables of vendors, and generate requests for proposals from vendors of enterprise application software; providing temporary use of non-downloadable software designed to allow manufacturers to compare responses to business process questions regarding the a key business disciplines to assess user's overall discipline mastery on a four-tier scale and provide recommendations for improvement; Providing an online searchable database concerning enterprise software, radio frequency identification, computers and networking products for industrial use, namely, in the field of information technology; Providing information in the field of business process integration, namely, in the field of integration of business computer systems and networks; Providing technical information via the Internet in the field of industrial process control software; Providing information via the Internet in the field of product development