It has become almost an article of faith that mid-size manufacturing companies, particularly those with little or no IT staff, need highly packaged systems that require little human intervention to run. This requirement has been at the center of the emerging value proposition for the so-called software-as-a-service application model, popularized by salesforce.com in the customer relationship management (CRM) market and now the subject of campaigns by enterprise resource planning (ERP) suppliers.
In a recent briefing, Plexus CEO and President Mark Symonds said the company came up with the idea for the engine about a year ago. "Engineering was tasked to come up with something revolutionary, " Symonds said. "We had had tools to enable customization, but the rendering engine goes way beyond what we had." But Plexus officials see another benefit to the engine, one that addresses the needs of larger organizations with IT staffs. "This gives back some control," says Tom Mackey, executive vice president of sales. "There was a gap in the offering for big companies that needed to make a change in the software."
Plexus showed a test version of the rendering engine at its user group meeting in May. Although the engine was originally envisioned as an internal development platform, Symonds has high hopes for it going forward, even suggesting that Plexus may develop a separate business around it.
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