Manufacturing Business Technology's special report, Emerging Vendors in Manufacturing, recognizes innovative companies that are delivering technology to develop competitive advantage among best-in-class manufacturers. These companies are helping customers realize true return-on-investment while empowering the industry as a whole. Exsys is one of those companies.

COMPANY

Exsys Inc. www.exsys.com

SOLUTION TYPE; TARGET CUSTOMER SIZE BY REVENU; INDUSTRIES SERVED

Knowledge automation expert system bridges the gap between data analytics and real-world business needs to give customers and employees recommendations and advice; manufacturing, plant operations, process control.

NUMBER OF CUSTOMERS; KEY CUSTOMERS

More than 14,000 users worldwide, including half of Fortune 100 companies.

GROWTH INDICATION

Grew revenue by more than 50 percent in 2005—even greater growth is expected for 2006.

EDITORIAL INSIGHT

System captures the expert’s problem-solving logic and process and follows the same steps the expert does to produce a reasoned recommendation based on logic that can be traced and reviewed.