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Optiant has been acquired by Logility, a leading provider of collaborative supply chain planning solutions. As part of Logility, Optiant is in a stronger position to deliver innovative solutions that help improve your business. Logility is a respected, fast-growing supply chain solutions provider able to drive increased innovation in Optiant products and deliver access to highly complementary solutions.

Optiant is pleased to announce that Version 6.2 of PowerChain Inventory and Planner is now available for upgrade to customers on active maintenance in our Solution Support Plan program.

Version 6.2 decreases the cost and time for deployment, raises overall performance, and improves accountability and manageability of the applications, models, and inventory targets.

The PowerChain 6.2 release is right around the corner! This release features many new enhancements covering administration, performance, and usability. You can download a draft of the PowerChain 6.2 What's New document at http://community.optiant.com/documentation/6.2. Look for more information at the Optiant Community in the coming weeks, and expect emails with instructions on getting this release starting in December. We hope you'll find plenty of reasons to upgrade your PowerChain Inventory and Planner deployments to version 6.2.

Today we released an update to PowerChain 6.1. Available to all customers on PowerChain 6.1 with active maintenance, PowerChain 6.1.2 fixes one problem in PowerChain Inventory on Windows 2008, and two problems in PowerChain Planner. This update is highly recommended for all customers on PowerChain 6.1. Details on the update are available at http://community.optiant.com/node/192.

To receive this update, please contact Optiant Technical Support at support@optiant.com for download instructions. Optiant Technical Support is also available to assist in installation of this update.

PowerChain Planner 6.0 introduced new ways to use Planner's ability to calculate forecast bias to control the calculation of forecast error COV. Forecast bias can also now be displayed in the item demand characterization component in the Planner user interface. We've written a knowledgebase article that answers several questions about the calculation, display, configuration, and impact of forecast bias in PowerChain Planner. The article is located at http://community.optiant.com/node/167.

In preparation for roll-out of PowerChain 6.1, we have published the documentation set on the Optiant Community at http://community.optiant.com/documentation/6.1. All of the documents have been updated for version 6.1. One big change is that we have merged the three separate installation guides into a single PowerChain 6.1 Installation Guide, which should make it easier to follow the entire process when you have both PowerChain Inventory and PowerChain Planner to install or upgrade.

Earlier this month, Optiant was proud to announce that The Hershey Company has selected and implemented Optiant's full PowerChain inventory and supply chain optimization suite.

Optiant is pleased to announce the availability of PowerChain 6.0.

PowerChain 6.0 includes updates to PowerChain Inventory and PowerChain Planner. The focus in this release is on automating and managing more of the activities that users perform, such as dealing with unusual demand data in Planner. Improvements to installation and support capabilities speed the time of deployment and issue resolution. The ability to integrate with your network identities using LDAP or Active Directory improves security compliance and user maintenance.

August of 2008 marks the beginning of a new endeavor for us, and we hope you will be a part of it. As you can see, we've created a new place for you to participate in the discussions, share ideas, and get information about Optiant, our products, and improving business results through supply chain optimization in general.

Not only can you find technical documentation, answers to frequently asked questions, and various in-depth knowledge base articles, but you can also participate in discussions with Optiant consultants and engineers and, most importantly, other users of Optiant solutions.

If you already have an account, log in on the right. If you need an account, click on Create new account to get started. The online community is available to anyone using Optiant software at a company that is actively subscribed to an Optiant maintenance agreement.

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