Manhattan Associates is a supplier of supply chain management software. Manhattan Associates was founded by Alan Dabbiere, Prahlad Suresh, Deepak Raghavan, Deepak M.J. Rao and Ponnambalam Muthiah in 1990 in Manhattan Beach, CA for the purpose of applying information technology solutions to distribution centers. The company's first product, called PkMS, managed receiving stock, locating stock, picking stock, verifying stock, packaging, and shipping stock in and out of a warehouse. In 1994, it signed its 50th customer and generated $6.5 million in revenues.
The Oracle Corporation is an American global computer technology corporation, headquartered in Redwood City, California, United States. The company primarily specializes in developing and marketing computer hardware systems and enterprise software products particularly its own brands of database management systems. In 2011 Oracle was the second-largest software maker by revenue, after Microsoft. The company also develops and builds tools for database development and systems of middle-tier software, enterprise resource planning software, customer relationship management software and supply chain management software.
