January 6, 2010 (FinancialWire) — Global supply chain optimization provider Manhattan Associates, Inc. (NASDAQ: MANH) has won the ‘Supply Chain Management Industry’ and ‘Logistics Industry’ category awards at AMT Group’s ‘Annual Top-lists of Business Software in China, 2009′.

Manhattan was announced winner of the awards following a short-listing of ten leading business software providers in each category. The awards ceremony was held in December at the Sofitel Jinjiang Oriental Pudong Hotel in Shanghai. More than 300 people, including government officials, representatives from end-user organizations in retail, distribution and manufacturing as well as professionals from China’s IT industry gathered for the awards ceremony to announce the 2009 winners of these coveted awards.

While the global financial crisis has impacted the software industry in China, the industry has maintained a year-on-year growth rate of around 20% (China IT Software Industry Association). The software industry has registered one of the highest growth rates amongst industry sectors in China during 2009.

The ‘Annual Top-lists of Business Software in China’ is organized by AMT Group, China’s leading and most popular IT / Management website, in conjunction with the ‘China IT Software Industry Association’. AMT’s Annual Top-lists are renowned and respected among professionals across China’s IT industry. Past winners include Microsoft, IBM, Alcatel, UFIDA, Blackberry and Salesforce.com. The whole award nomination and judgment process lasted about 3 months, and attracted applications from software companies with operations in mainland China as well as in Hong Kong and Taiwan, serving clients across a variety of industry sectors including manufacturing, logistics, pharmaceuticals, FMCG, retail, hi-tech and finance. The awards themselves extend across many software segments including Enterprise Resource Planning, SCM, Customer Relationship Management, Software-as-a-Service, and Business Intelligence .

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