JDA (R) Software Group Incorporated, founded in 1985 and based in Scottsdale, Arizona, provides over 4,900 businesses across the manufacturing, wholesale, and retail sectors with supply and demand chain management programs. The firm's systems optimize planning, pricing, promotion, and selling processes. The company is known for the Portfolio Merchandise Operations (TM), Portfolio Store Systems (TM), and Portfolio Strategic Merchandise Management products. Portfolio Merchandise Operations is an enterprise decision support system. Portfolio Store Systems supports back office, point-of-sale, store inventory, customer relationship management (CRM), workforce management, and other processes. Portfolio Strategic Merchandise Management is a product lifecycle management system. It includes the Portfolio Enterprise Planning (TM), Portfolio Category Management (TM), Portfolio Allocation and Replenishment (TM), and Portfolio Revenue Management (TM) components. JDA Software Group offers customers supply and manufacturing management, warehouse management, transportation planning, freight audit and management, fleet management, procurement, performance analysis, collaboration, reporting, and other tools. Systems are built on the scalable JDA Enterprise Architecture platform. The firm also provides clients with system implementation and training services. JDA Software Group maintains additional offices across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. The company has acquired Intactix, E3 Corporation, and Manugistics. The firm went public in 1996. It is listed on NASDAQ under the JDAS symbol. JDA Software Group was founded by James Armstrong.