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IndX Software Corp. 's second annual user conference was dominated by the announcement that plant automation giant Siemens is acquiring IndX (see Views from the front, page 9, for more) , which offers software for operations intelligence. The past year was a good one for IndX, as it landed new customers interested in using Web technology to tap into real-time plant-floor data and turn it into useful information.
At the user conference--held early last month--managers with both Siemens and IndX said the acquisition will take IndX and its XHQ suite to new levels of market effectiveness. As a small, independent vendor of portal-based software for...