Agile has been a supplier of products for content management software for use on the Internet within and between companies in the supply chain industry. Agile suite of products was designed to improve the ability of participants in the supply chain to communicate and cooperate with each other on new or changing product content. The software has been especially useful for managing the virtual supply chain, where the production and distribution functions were transferred to the contract partners. Agile has been in business for over four years and released his first non-web-based product in 1996. In many ways, Agile products were well suited to become a fully web-based, and with a growing wave of interest in online business to business applications, the company quickly redesigned their products to use the Internet. "Hide
by Hau Lee, M. Eric Johnson Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business 15 pages. Publication Date: January 3, 2000. Prod. #: GS20-PDF-ENG
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