Business
Adexa delivers intelligent enterprise business planning and performance management solutions that link strategic planning, financial planning and supply chain planning.  In this synchronized environment, the financial impact of planning decisions, and their ramifications on the enterprise, are known in advance to ensure profitable decisions are made every time.  The end result is an innovative enterprise, able to proactively adjust to changing market conditions and support growth and capitalization.

Founded in 1994 by Dr. Cyrus Hadavi, who continues to serve the company as President, CEO and Chairman of the Board, Adexa has at its core comprehensive planning, modeling and collaboration technologies, designed to bridge the gap between enterprise stakeholders, geographic locations, customers and supply chains.  Adexa assists with the identification of strategic objectives, plans the supply chain to meet them, executes against the plan, then monitors and measures progress using hundreds of key performance indicators. Inherent event management capabilities enable managers to proactively deal with issues before they grow into problems through the use of KPI reports, alerts and messages.  The impact of Adexa solutions can be measured with financial markers such as improved revenues, profitability and returns on invested capital.

Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Adexa maintains offices across the United States and international offices in Canada, Asia, and Europe.  Adexa's global customer base includes over one hundred Fortune 2000 industry leaders, including General Motors, Hitachi, Johnson & Johnson, Maytag, Philips, Siemens,Teijin Limited, Unilever, Xerox, Firmenich and AMD.

Locations
Adexa Worldwide

Established
1994   

Finances
Profitable

Employees
150 +

Major Customers - Over One Hundred Fortune 2000 customers

• AMD
• ASE
• ASMC 
• Boeing
• CSLP
• Cirrus Logic
• Columbian Chemical
• Conexant
• Dofasco
• Firmenich
• General Motors
• Hitachi
• Hynix
• J & J Industries
• Lucent
• Mannington
• Maytag
• Milliken
• Mitac
• NAVAIRGM
• CNH Global
• Philips
• Pulse
• Quaker
• Samsung
• Sharp
• Shimano
• Silicon Labs
• Silterra
• STATS ChipPac
• Sumitomo
• Toshiba
• Tropical Sportswear
• TSMC
• UMC
• Xerox

Management Team

• K. Cyrus Hadavi, President & CEO
• Tim Field, CTO
• Kameron Hadavi, VP Marketing
• William Green, VP Solutions

Dr. Cyrus Hadavi, formerly with i2, and Udo Dengler, formerly with Numetrix, later acquired by J. D. Edwards, brought to Adexa a comprehensive understanding of the requirements of the customer and the shortcomings of competitive supply chain offerings. The founders, each of whom also had experience in planning roles at major manufacturing companies, set out to design a memory-resident solution, with the robustness to rapidly process tremendous volumes of data.  Dr. Hadavi and Mr. Dengler continue to serve the company as President and CEO and Chief Technology Officer, respectively. Adexa has raised over $50 million in venture financing to date.  Investors include: Sutter Hill Ventures, Information Technology Ventures, J & W Seligman, Amerindo Investment Advisors, Freemarkets, Vitria, and DRW Venture Partners.  In calendar year 2001, the company generated revenue of $41 million.  Adexa is headquartered in Los Angeles, Californina and maintains three additional offices in the United States and eight international offices across Canada, Asia, and Europe.  Adexa currently employs over one hundred fifty people.  Adexa serves five vertical industry groups: Semiconductor, Soft Goods, Electronics and General Industry including Automotive, Aerospace & Defense, CPG, and Chemicals.  Each group has its own solution templates based on common industry requirements, and its own support team with the expertise to rapidly tailor solutions and meet unique customer specific requirements.

Selected Partners

• EDS
• Hewlett-Packard
• IBM
• Vitria

Investors

• Amerindo Investment Advisors
• BEV Capital
• DRW Venture Partners, L.P.
• Information Technology Ventures II, L.P.
• J & W Seligman & Company
• Mitsubishi
• Sutter Hill Ventures, L.P.
• Vitria Technology, Inc.
• Wasserstein Ventures

Competition

• i2
• Manugistics
• Oracle
• SAP

Adexa Business Solutions
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Architecture
Adexa's eGPS architecture provides a business application framework that combines both planning and execution into a single web-enabled environment.   The architecture provides the following capabilities:

• Support for intelligent, flexible, scalable, fast solvers
• Collaboration with intelligence at both planning and order levels
• Scalable, reliable, transactional computing
• Open integration with enterprise systems (ERP, OM, MES) and transactional systems
• Connectivity with trading partners that includes web-based services as well as traditional EDI connectivity

This is accomplished using open standards computing that consists of a browser-based client, use of standard web servers (Apache and IIS), J2EE compliant application components, high-performance components in C++ for solving, support for both Unix and Windows, and portability to a variety of hardware platforms (Unix and Wintel) and databases (DB2, ORACLE, Microsoft).  Adexa supports web services connectivity in the suite, and connectivity to EAI and B2B tools (IBM Websphere and Vitria).  Adexa's architecture has been proven the fastest, most scalable and flexible in its space.  The suite is anchored on its single data model, built by Adexa, which provides a high-performance platform at a low total cost of ownership.