aPriori Cost Management Platform
(aPriori Technologies Inc., Concord, Mass.) targets the need for real-time, predictive cost assessments throughout product development. Use the resulting knowledge to test the validity of outsourcing decisions, the company says.

Arena PLM
(Arena Solutions, Menlo Park, Calif.) is available as a service, has zero upfront costs, no costly IT requirements and features easy-to-use implementations. The service features automatic upgrades -- 44 since the company's founding in 2000.

AtmoPlas process
(Dana Corp., Toledo, Ohio) enables heat treating without the need for vacuum equipment. The enablers: combining microwave energy with the ability to generate and sustain a plasma at atmospheric pressure. The benefits: big savings in capital equipment and operating costs.

Blue Gene supercomputing technology
(IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) is powering a new collaboration between IBM and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. The goal: accelerate and broaden research in fields including life sciences, hydrodynamics, materials sciences, quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics and business applications.

BPX Technology
(Broin and Associates, Sioux Falls, S. D.) harnesses a new enzyme commercialized with Novozymes to bring new process competitiveness to ethanol plants. Benefits: reduced energy consumption, improved ethanol yields and increased value of co-products.

Brightidea.com
(Brightidea Inc., New York) is an on-demand innovation process management service designed to accelerate product development, process improvement, cost cutting, intellectual property management, technology adoption, marketing strategy and business model innovation.

Cognos 8
(Cognos, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a business intelligence product that enables business enterprises to leverage all corporate data and deliver all BI capabilities to all users across the organization on one Web-based architecture, regardless of infrastructure complexity.

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Manufacturing Advantage
(HighJump Software, Eden Prairie, Minn.), a supply chain execution module, integrates manufacturing operations with overall supply-chain flows. The goal: enhancing competitiveness via visibility of shop floor activities and inventories.

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