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Contents Acquisitions _______________________________
Autodesk Acquires PlassoTech—Simulation SoftwaPrototyping Solution_________________________
CIMdata in the News ________________________Reminder to Vote on the CIMdata Opinion Poll abo
Company News_____________________________Autodesk Launches Preferred Industry Partner ProgFreeborders Unveils Expansion Plans in China ____ILOG and Wipro Form Strategic Alliance to DeliveApplications _______________________________Kubotek USA Announces New Reseller, IntegratedPLM Survey Results Show a Need for More EfficieCompliance Management _____________________SAP Reinforces Importance of India to Company's Sudipta Bhattacharya Appointed Invensys Chief SoWipro and SAP Strengthen Relationship to Foster G
Events News _______________________________AGILITY is Now a Comprehensive Agile PLM ProDassault Systèmes to Host European CATIA ForumDelcam to Demo Adaptive Blade Repair at EMO __ESPRIT at Magnum Machinery Open House Sept. 1Mentor Graphics President to Speak at Citigroup’s GOSIsoft announces the Regional Seminar Series feaSign Up Now for Free Arena Solutions/Symphony COutsourcing Survey Results and Tips for Getting It SOA Consortium Presents: SOA Governance RounCisco share their insights on SOA Governance ____UGS PLM Software Hosts Digital Manufacturing SUnleashing 3D CAD with Seemage and SolidWork
Financial News ____________________________Open Text Reports Fourth Quarter and Year-End 20
Implementation Investments __________________Cost-Effective, Ultra-High-Quality Test Results UsEnterasys Selects BigMachines Lean Front-End® toFamily of Companies to Standardize on IFS ApplicFluid Simulation Reduces Valve Prototype DevelopJAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) SelecSimulation Program _________________________Leading German Consulting Firm Brunel Selects HMayerton Group signs major deal with IFS to standMentor Graphics and the College of Automotive EnTechnical Training Center for Auto Electronic SystMetso Paper, Inc Signs Contract Worth Over $4.5m
PLM Industry SummaryEditor: Christine Bennett
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Philadelphia Stock Exchange Transforms IT Process and Workflow With Serena Software ____________29 Simulia: Glass Service Improve BV Reduces Time And Cost of Bottle Blow Molding with Realistic Simulation Solutions from Dassault Systèmes ________________________________________________30 Small Auto Racing Parts Maker Does Big Business Using SolidWorks Software ____________________31 Synopsys Lowers the Cost of Semiconductor Testing at Tessolve ________________________________31 Tractair Accelerates Brake System Development with SolidWorks _______________________________32
Product News _____________________________________________________________________ 33 Bentley Releases Enhanced AutoPLANT P&ID; New Version Adds Support for AutoCAD 2007 and AutoCAD 2008________________________________________________________________________33 Camstar Delivers Comprehensive Electronics Suite ___________________________________________34 Conformia Development Operations Management Named SAP-Endorsed Business Solution ___________35 CONTACT Software and IDS Scheer Agree Upon Partnership in the Area of Product Lifecycle Management __________________________________________________________________________37 Engineous Launches Component Central Website_____________________________________________37 New Kit from Cadence Cuts Risk and Time for Adopting Functional Verification Methodology ________38 SAP Showcases Value and Process Innovation for Real Estate Management ________________________39 Share-A-space™ Extended with Support for PLM Services 2.0 __________________________________40 Synopsys and SMIC Jointly Address China Mobile TV Market with Low Power Design Solution _______40 UGS PLM Software Announces New Releases for its D-Cubed 2D Component Software Solutions _____41 UGS PLM Software Ships Velocity Series’ Solid Edge Version 20 _______________________________42
Acquisitions Autodesk Acquires PlassoTech—Simulation Software Extends Functionality of the Autodesk Digital Prototyping Solution Aug. 27, 2007
Autodesk, Inc. today announced the acquisition of California-based PlassoTech, a leading supplier of analysis and simulation software for the mechanical design market. The acquisition of PlassoTech will allow Autodesk to enhance the simulation and optimization capabilities found in Autodesk Inventor software making it easier than ever for customers to simulate, optimize and validate a complete digital prototype. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. "Our goal is to provide the most comprehensive and easy-to-use Digital Prototyping solution on the market," said Robert "Buzz" Kross, senior vice president of Autodesk Manufacturing Solutions. "The acquisition of PlassoTech will provide our customers with integrated simulation tools and sophisticated analysis functionality that complements their Digital Prototyping workflows." Autodesk currently plans to integrate PlassoTech technology into the Inventor product family, augmenting existing finite element analysis (FEA) tools. The technology brings many distinct advantages to the Inventor product line, including:
• The ability to perform analysis on entire assemblies, as well as individual parts
• The ability to perform analysis based on real-world structural and thermal conditions
• Advanced-ease-of use and performance superiority with a fully integrated simulation solution. Specifically, PlassoTech technology allows FEA calculations in categories such as linear static stress, steady state thermal, thermal stress, modal and frequency analysis, optimization and buckling. It also includes advanced functionalities to test dynamic stress, transient thermal, and large deformation
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analysis of solid and shell models with various contact conditions. Hundreds of companies globally in industrial machinery, transportation, consumer products and building and plant equipment use PlassoTech technology including: Innoventa LLC, Jupp Associates Ltd., Mammoth Inc., Microheat, OSSTEM Co., Ltd, Pentax, Rinehart Motion Systems LLC, Sejong Industrial Company Ltd, Subaru Telescope, Telops and Tokyo Electron Limited. For customers seeking support information, please email mailto:[email protected].
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Company News Autodesk Launches Preferred Industry Partner Program August 27, 2007
To help customers in the manufacturing, architecture, building and construction markets benefit from the advantages of 3D software, Autodesk, Inc. today announced the Autodesk Preferred Industry Partner Program. The new program recognizes select third-party software developers for their innovative, industry-focused solutions. Designated Preferred Industry Partners create applications that complement Autodesk 3D products and help customers simulate their ideas early in the design process as well as reduce time and cost in manufacturing or construction. A global sales and marketing initiative, the Preferred Industry Partner program launches with five software developers awarded Preferred Industry Partner status in North America and Europe. These inaugural partners have created products that tightly integrate with applications such as Autodesk Inventor, Revit and AutoCAD Civil 3D software products, and add industry-, task- or region-specific functionality, from advanced mechanical analysis to compliance with local regulations. "Worldwide, macroeconomic trends such as the rising cost of energy, globalization of business and growing need for infrastructure are creating new opportunities and placing new demands on manufacturing, building and construction companies," said Jim Quanci, worldwide director, Autodesk Developer Network. "Together, Autodesk and its Preferred Industry Partners offer best-in-class design solutions that help our customers use 3D digital models to experience their ideas virtually-and then make them real—saving time and money for them and their customers."
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Partners Ease Customers' Transition to 3D Software Preferred Industry Partner companies such as hsbSOFT are helping their customers make the transition to 3D software and Digital Prototyping easier so that they can take advantage of the benefits offered by these advanced technologies. "Software flexibility and scalability are required due to the constantly changing building code in North America," said Patrick Duffy, Production Engineer, Toll Integrated Systems, an hsbSOFT customer. "Providing Autodesk Preferred Industry Partners with enhanced services and support will allow for more agile development for Autodesk customers, and that is advantageous for large scale homebuilders, like Toll Brothers who work in an environment of rapid customization." Headquartered in Belgium, hsbSOFT's flagship product is hsbCAD, a leading-edge software application for the prefabricated building industry (timber framing, steel framing and log homes). hsbSOFT just released hsbCAD with an interface to the Autodesk Revit platform for building information modeling (BIM), which provides coordinated, consistent and computable information. "Like Autodesk, we believe that 3D simulation is fundamental to innovation in the architecture, engineering and construction sector," said Karel Vinckier, CEO and founder of hsbSOFT. "Our software is designed to help our customers embrace BIM so that they can evaluate and iterate designs and arrive at optimal solutions for their clients' needs, from structural performance to cost-effectiveness. Becoming one of the first members in the Autodesk Preferred Industry Partner program is recognition of our long-standing industry specific expertise and we're excited about working closely with Autodesk to drive even greater awareness for our solutions among resellers and prospective customers." Today, Autodesk Preferred Industry Partners include:
Company Country Capability Works With AcadGraph Germany Project Management AutoCAD Architecture
CGS Eastern Europe Infrastructure Design AutoCAD Civil 3D
HsbSOFT Belgium Timber Framing Revit & AutoCAD Architecture
INOVA Eastern Europe Telecom AutoCAD Map 3D
RDV Systems Israel Infrastructure Simulation AutoCAD Civil 3D
Participation Includes Enhanced Sales and Marketing Support Autodesk works closely with Preferred Industry Partners on a range of marketing and sales activities including channel development support and a designated Autodesk sales contact; creation of joint marketing materials and announcements; and a special program logo for use on product packaging and partner Web sites. Program participants also receive early access to alpha and beta versions of Autodesk software, priority service support and feature requests, and gain access to additional co-marketing resources. Software and service companies who are members of the Autodesk Developer Network may obtain more information about the Preferred Industry Partner Program by contacting Karl Osti, Preferred Industry Partner Program Manager, at mailto:[email protected]. Partners are selected based on criteria including their ability to offer industry-leading technology that is tightly integrated with Autodesk 3D applications, as well as a commitment to delivering software that advances Digital Prototyping.
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About the Autodesk Developer Network The Autodesk Developer Network (ADN) comprises more than 2,700 technology partners around the world. Preferred Industry Partners extend Autodesk solutions to meet the industry-specific needs of the design community. For more information about ADN and Autodesk Preferred Industry Partners, visit http://www.autodesk.com/adn.
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Freeborders Unveils Expansion Plans in China 29 August 2007
Freeborders Incorporated has just expanded operations in China.
Freeborders currently has a state of the art technology center in Shenzhen, which has provided IT outsourcing services to Fortune 1000 US and European companies for nearly a decade. The company has expanded operations and has opened a new office in Guangzhou. This move gives Freeborders much needed additional space and positions them closer to key clients.
This expansion will help to facilitate Freeborders’ growth, provide additional business continuity capability, and allow Freeborders to gain access to an additional talent pool in Guangzhou. Because of significant demand for Freeborders IT outsourcing services, the company is also evaluating additional locations for expansion over the next 12-18 months. Locations such as Xian, Chengdu and others are under consideration.
Jim Reesing, Freeborders Executive Vice President for Global Sales and Operations, explained the drivers of Freeborders growth. “Our unique global operating mode, CHINDUSsm, has contributed significantly to our growth and need for additional locations. The CHINDUSsm approach includes adopting best practices from the US, India, and China. From the US, we leverage our strong on site domain knowledge, our strong US management team, and our relationship management capabilities. From India, we adopt industry best practices around governance and the global delivery model. From China, we leverage the massive talent pool, the strong technical skills, and the English language capabilities that China can deliver.”
Industry leaders and analysts agree that China is the next big destination in offshore sourcing strategies. Its wealth of highly skilled labor and solid infrastructure place it atop most “short” lists for offshoring engagements.
“As more and more Fortune 1000 companies take advantage of a multi-country sourcing strategy, China is becoming the most compelling choice,” Jim adds. “The opening of our Guangzhou facility is symbolic of the growth and scale we are seeing across the China market”
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ILOG and Wipro Form Strategic Alliance to Deliver Software Solutions that Simplify Complex Business Applications August 28, 2007
ILOG® and Wipro Technologies, the global IT services division of Wipro Limited , today announced that they have formed a strategic alliance, where Wipro will incorporate ILOG's Business Rules
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Management System (BRMS) products into its application development process. Wipro will also leverage ILOG's other product lines, namely its supply chain planning and scheduling applications, as well as optimization and visualization software components. Through this alliance, ILOG and Wipro will share business and technical expertise to help customers improve business decision-making, bring solutions to market faster, optimize business processes and manage product life-cycle development. Wipro will also create a dedicated ILOG Center of Excellence (COE) for selling and implementing BRMS applications. ILOG will provide Wipro with access to its technology and training services and will work with Wipro to integrate its products into Wipro's services offerings. Initial projects include integrating ILOG Jrules®, a key offering in ILOG's BRMS product line into Wipro's product lifecycle management (PLM) solution for a major tire manufacturer. "Wipro delivers unmatched business value to customers through a combination of process excellence, quality frameworks and service delivery innovation," said Vivek Bhasin, Vice President, e-Business and BI-IM, Wipro Technologies. "Close collaboration with ILOG helps Wipro's consultants apply ILOG's best practices for making solutions that allow both business and IT users to manage complex systems easily and efficiently." ILOG has been an industry leader in business rules management space since 1992 providing solutions that automate business policies in custom and composite business applications and lower application maintenance costs, facilitating more accurate and consistent business policy implementation across applications, and improving collaboration between an organization's business and IT departments. Wipro offers unique solutions in the BRMS space, which is a strategic focus area for its Enterprise Business Integration practice. The solutions have gained immense client acceptance as they are built viewing client requirements from a practitioner's approach. Wipro has established a dedicated practice utilizing consulting and product implementation expertise on ILOG. Wipro offers end-to-end BRMS expertise ranging from rules assessment, rules harvesting, rules mining, consulting, implementation, support and maintenance. For another joint project, Wipro is creating a solution using the ILOG CPLEX(R) optimization engine to optimize the scheduling and slotting of advertising space for a market-leading media and entertainment client. ILOG is a leader in the field of optimization technology and ILOG's solutions are used by more than 1,000 commercial customers to solve challenging planning and scheduling problems. Wipro will also use Visualization, ILOG's third product line, to create sophisticated graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to enhance decision making, speed and ability by making vast quantities of complex data more comprehensible and manageable for users.
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Kubotek USA Announces New Reseller, Integrated Manufacturing Technologies 27 August 2007
Kubotek USA announced the addition of a new Reseller in the Southwestern US and Mexico Integrated Manufacturing Technology – (IMT) a multinational VAR based in the Southwest United States. Integrated Manufacturing is a comprehensive and knowledgeable GibbsCAM dealer with offices in Phoenix, Los Angeles County, San Diego, New Mexico and Mexico locations. Their customers range from large aerospace and automotive companies to small mold shops. Last year they were the 2nd largest reseller of GibbsCAM in the Western US.
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"Integrated Manufacturing is exactly the type of partner for us.” said Scott Sweeney, vice president at Kubotek USA. “The company offers a complementary product, GibbsCAM." KeyCreator is the very best CAD tool to prepare and edit models to get them ready for manufacturing. Manufactures worldwide struggle with interoperability problems and the difficulty of trying to edit parametric models that they did not create. With KeyCreator these problems vanish, saving manufacturers a great deal of time and money.” said Dick Smith, Director of Operations forIntegrated Manufacturing Technologies. Scott Sweeney, VP of Business Development, comments on Kubotek USA’s channel expansion in the Americas “When customers begin using KeyCreator it is like going from using MS-Dos to Windows. Instead of programming the computer on how you want to design a product, you just design it, using geometry. We owe it to our customers to expand our channel to ensure that every CAD user has an opportunity to be serviced by a local reseller. To help support our growing channel we have initiated live demos on a weekly basis. Our channel can direct new prospects to this live web demo to get them exposed to our breakthrough technology. After years of literally nothing new in the CAD world, KeyCreator is really taking CAD design to the next level.” We are continuing to selectively expand its reseller channel across the Americas. We offer an attractive program that rivals its CAD competitors.” About Integrated Manufacturing Technologies (IMT)
Established in 1988, (Originally as CAM Professionals, Inc.) IMT provides manufacturing and design solutions to clients across the automotive, consumer electronics, education, energy, industrial products and manufacturing market segments. The team at IMT brings a wealth of CAE, CAD and CAM expertise to each of its client relationships. Visit IMT at http://www.intmfgtec.com/.
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PLM Survey Results Show a Need for More Efficient Engineering Change, Bill of Material, and Compliance Management 28 August 2007
Omnify Software announced the results of its annual customer survey. The survey polled more than 100 Omnify customers, both new and legacy, in order to research and evaluate common product development challenges before and after their PLM implementation. Omnify Software reports that approximately 91 percent of respondents indicated they were able to overcome product development challenges using PLM software.
Survey results showed that there is a significant need among manufacturers for more efficient engineering change, Bill of Material (BOM) and component management, as well as ease of communicating necessary product information to various departments. The survey confirmed that customers were able to resolve these product development challenges by implementing a PLM solution and were pleased with how they were able to streamline their operations and develop products much easier and faster. Prior to implementing a PLM solution, the majority of respondents reported that managing product information in different locations and outgrowing Excel or homegrown solutions were key issues. These practices could not support the growing amounts of data involved in designing and manufacturing a product. Employing PLM technology was a strategic initiative to create more efficient product design and development processes by managing product data in a single, secure location and eliminating silos of information throughout the enterprise.
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The survey also uncovered that the most common market trend manufacturers are seeing today is the need to meet diverse compliance requirements such as RoHS, FDA, Quality and ISO. Respondents reported that they feel Omnify is in a strong position to support these trends with the system's ability to manage detailed product data, track change history, handle quality/CAPA information, and its robust reporting capabilities. Over 82% of customers stated that they are currently using Omnify to manage their compliance processes or plan to. Ease of implementation and depth of capabilities, followed by ease of use, are key factors when selecting a PLM system. According to the survey, customers selected Omnify over other PLM vendors mainly for the ease of implementation and use as well as its rich PLM feature set. The business-ready solution from Omnify allows customers to be trained and implemented within days due to its intuitive user interface and open technology platform. Omnify manages the complete product record delivering component data, BOM, engineering change, and documentation management. Empower, Omnify's next-generation PLM solution, incorporates project, quality/CAPA, and training requirements management functionality to further enhance visibility to the entire product development process. "Both the ease of use and functionality of Omnify has helped us to easily transition to paperless operations and establish real-time data exchange among our product development teams," said Raleigh Morgan, Documentation Control Manager for EMS Technologies. "On average, we have achieved over a 50% reduction in process steps with Omnify."
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SAP Reinforces Importance of India to Company's 2010 Growth Strategy Aug. 28, 2007
SAP AG today announced significant successes in the fast-growing Indian market that are helping the company better execute its vision for 2010. In the space of just one year, SAP has doubled the number of Indian customers to 2,000, highlighting a level of growth unprecedented for the company around the globe. The announcement was made during the first-ever visit by the entire SAP Executive Board to India, reflecting the rising importance of the country to SAP both as a vibrant market as well as a technology development and services-support delivery center.
SAP Grows Indian Customer Base from 1,000 to 2,000 in One Year In a sign of overwhelming acceptance among Indian customers, SAP announced that it has doubled its customer base in India from 1,000 to 2,000 since August 2006. SAP was also the first enterprise software vendor in India to cross the 1,000 customer-mark, which further reinforces the company's leadership in India.
"The unprecedented growth that we are seeing from India is one of the best examples of how our 2010 strategy translates into action," said Henning Kagermann, CEO and chairman of the executive board, SAP. "Markets like India are at an inflection point when it comes to the adoption of technology by businesses of all shapes and sizes. For instance, it took us nine years in India to reach the 1,000 customer mark, and only one to double it."
Globally, SAP has set itself a goal of reaching 100,000 customers by 2010. In order to achieve this goal, the company plans to significantly expand the addressable market for enterprise software solutions by aggressively targeting small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) and emerging markets. Markets such as India and China will play a central role in helping the company achieve its vision.
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Reaffirming $1 Billion Investment for India, SAP Labs India Set to Grow in Gurgaon, Focusing on Global Service and Support Validating the continuing importance of India to SAP, the company reaffirmed the investment of $1 billion in the country by 2010. The announcement was originally made in 2006 coinciding with the elevation of India as a 'strategic hub' for SAP, enabling the company to draw more attention, resources and focus required to sustain and build upon its momentum in the country. A major portion of SAP's investment in India is targeted at expanding the company's global development and services and support hub in India, SAP Labs. Originally established in 1998 in Bangalore, India became the first region for SAP worldwide to have development and services and support centers in multiple cities when it opened a center in Gurgaon in 2006. The Gurgaon center delivers a full set of services to the company and its global customers across multiple product categories. "SAP Labs India is today the largest research and development hub and support presence for us outside Germany," added Kagermann. "While the Bangalore center will continue to play a central global leadership role, we now foresee the Gurgaon center focusing on global service and support scaling up significantly in the next few years to enable us to meet our aggressive goals for India."
Indian SMEs a Significant Source of Growth for SAP Small businesses and midsize companies are the fastest-growing segments for SAP in India. Through its SAP® All-in-One solution targeted at fast-growing midsize companies, and SAP® Business One solution targeted at small businesses, SAP is a market leader in the Indian SME enterprise software space. "Today, Indian SMEs are as aggressive and confident in their business outlook as their larger counterparts and demand enterprise solutions that are powerful and robust enough to handle strong growth," said Leo Apotheker, deputy CEO and member of the executive board, SAP AG. "SAP provides a comprehensive portfolio of solutions for small businesses and midsize companies and is continuing to invest in its existing portfolio to bring value and innovation to its customers." Customers ranging from Subhiksha Retail, SAP's 1000th SME customer in India, which is using the SAP All-in-One solution as a foundation to expand its store presence in India from 750 to 1,500 in two years to Masaurhi Petrol Station, which is implementing SAP Business One to automate its processes and improve customer service support, show that SAP is today the overwhelming choice by Indian SMEs.
NTPC and ITC Papers to Join Extensive Index of Indian Businesses That Run SAP SAP also announced two significant additions to its customer base in India. The first is NTPC, India's largest thermal power generating company and one of the officially identified high-potential public sector companies, called 'Navratnas' in India. The company is up and running on a comprehensive SAP implementation based on the SAP(R) for Utilities solution portfolio, capping one of the largest-ever projects in the utilities industry that will see the replacement of the company's disparate legacy system. "Given the large scale of NTPC's operations and the complexity of our structure, we wanted to implement a business software solution that would establish uniform business processes, improve decision support and control over operations," said T. Sankarlingham, chairman and managing director, NTPC. SAP also announced that ITC Paperboards & Specialty Papers Division (ITC-PSPD), a division of ITC
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Ltd., has selected a comprehensive SAP® Business Suite implementation covering a range of areas such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management (SCM), customer relationship management (CRM), supplier relationship management (SRM), product lifecycle management (PLM), business warehouse (BW) and radio frequency identification (RFID). Once live, the SAP solution will allow ITC-PSPD to integrate and automate units across its entire business leading to a fully integrated geographical workflow.
SAP Ecosystem in India Continues to Deliver and Expand SAP also emphasized the role of the Indian ecosystem in the company's growth. Through an ecosystem of more than 200 partners across locations and categories, SAP is able to deliver comprehensive solutions to Indian customers that incorporate world-class best practices together with functionalities specific to the Indian business environment. To access an audio replay of the press conference with members of the SAP Executive Board in India, please visit http://www.sap.com/company/press/index.epx.
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Sudipta Bhattacharya Appointed Invensys Chief Software Solutions Officer 29 August 2007
British engineering firm Invensys plc announced that Sudipta Bhattacharya has been appointed as the Invensys chief software solutions officer reporting to Mike Bradley Sr., president of Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys. Bhattacharya will be responsible for driving strategy and growing the Invensys and Wonderware software solutions business.
“I am pleased that Sudipta has chosen Invensys to realize his dream of shaping the future for real-time applications in the manufacturing space,” said Ulf Henriksson, chief executive of Invensys. “His expertise and energy will be important to the pace of our developments in this strategic and growing market.”
Previously, Bhattacharya served as senior vice president of solutions management for supply chain, manufacturing and product lifecycle applications at SAP America, Inc. He was responsible for driving and executing product strategy for three of SAP’s core solutions and several strategic alliances including those with Invensys and Wonderware, also a major SAP customer. With 17 years of experience in managing and building global teams across the U.S., Europe and India, Bhattacharya is currently recognized as a top industry leader in supply chain and manufacturing.
Before joining SAP in January 2002, Bhattacharya worked at i2 Technologies Inc. in its strategic services group. He held a consulting role that involved advising company executives on supply chain strategy. Prior to i2 Technologies, he worked for 10 years at Tata Group, a business conglomerate based in India, where he held different operational positions and built his strong functional background in core manufacturing and supply chain operations.
“Invensys and Wonderware customers in industrial information, operations management and manufacturing IT are increasingly seeking software solutions that significantly improve the efficiency, performance and agility of their operations,” Bradley said. “At SAP, Sudipta has been very successful in building the manufacturing ecosystem and delivering high-value software solutions at the enterprise level. I know that Sudipta is looking forward to the challenge of leveraging the significant opportunities which have been created at Wonderware and Invensys while continuing to help grow the global real-
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time manufacturing ecosystem.” Bhattacharya holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemical engineering and in business administration with specialization in marketing, finance and operations.
About Wonderware Wonderware is a business unit of Invensys plc and is a leading supplier of industrial automation and information software solutions. One-third of the world’s plants run Wonderware® software solutions. Having sold more than 450,000 software licenses in over 100,000 plants worldwide, Wonderware has customers in virtually every global industry including oil and gas, food and beverage, utilities, pharmaceuticals, electronics, metals, automotive and more. Founded in 1987, Wonderware pioneered the use of the Microsoft Windows® operating system in HMI software for manufacturing operations. Wonderware software powers intelligent plant decisions in real time. Its software products and solutions are based on the ArchestrA® architecture from Invensys. Based in Lake Forest, Calif., Wonderware has regional sales and development offices throughout the North American, European, Latin American and Asia-Pacific regions to provide support to its network of more than 160 distributor offices. Wonderware currently sells into more than 130 countries across the world.
About Invensys Invensys is a global automation, controls and process solutions group. Its products, services, expertise and ongoing support enable intelligent systems to monitor and control processes in many different environments. The businesses units within Invensys help customers in a variety of industries -- including hydrocarbons, chemicals, oil and gas, power and utilities, rail, telecommunications, paper, food and beverage, dairy, pharmaceuticals and personal care -- to perform with greater efficiency, safety and cost-effectiveness.
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Wipro and SAP Strengthen Relationship to Foster Growth for Customers August 28, 2007
In an effort to accelerate growth and innovation for businesses around the globe, the Global IT Services Division of Wipro Limited and SAP AG today announced an expansion of their existing partnership aimed at enhancing development and implementation of best-in-class solutions, especially around enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA). As part of the agreement, Wipro will become an SAP global services partner and will establish a solutions lab in Bangalore to showcase the benefits of enterprise SOA, industry best practices and innovative service-delivery models.
Wipro—A New SAP Global Services Partner As an SAP global services partner, Wipro joins a select group of large consultancies. Wipro will invest further in joint marketing resources and strategic planning to support the growth with SAP and to serve global customers and prospects. Wipro and SAP will leverage their respective strengths—including Wipro's in-depth industry knowledge and implementation skills and SAP's comprehensive range of enterprise applications—to jointly conduct sales promotion programs for mutually agreed upon regional and industry markets.
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"We have established a strong reputation for delivering high-quality solutions to large, small and midsize enterprises, and for providing competencies for SAP applications," said Suresh Vaswani, president, IT practices, Wipro Technologies. "Becoming an SAP global services partner provides increased opportunities for Wipro to collaborate with SAP to help businesses around the globe adopt a services-based IT approach. Today's announcement underscores Wipro's dedication to expand its SAP applications-based services practice worldwide and to add new dimensions to our already very strong relationship with SAP." "Wipro has excelled as a member of our ecosystem by providing high-quality products, solutions and services to customers," said Leo Apotheker, deputy CEO and member of the executive board, SAP AG. "By expanding our existing partnership to have Wipro become an SAP global services partner -- a category reserved for a select group of global organizations that deliver exceptional value and innovation to customers—we are providing a long-term and strategic approach to bringing the value of enterprise SOA to our customers."
Establishing an SAP Solutions Lab in Bangalore In an effort to help customers define their IT roadmaps, Wipro is engaging with SAP to establish a state-of-the-art SAP solutions lab at the company's Electronic City Facility in Bangalore, India. The new lab will provide customers with the opportunity to test the adoption of enterprise SOA and showcase innovative joint solutions. Continuing SAP's mission to fuel a partner ecosystem of innovation, the lab is intended to also leverage the model from the SAP Co-Innovation Lab in Palo Alto, California to advance enterprise software solutions for customers in India. To learn more about the Wipro and SAP relationship on the SAP Technology Tour 2007, please visit http://www.sap.com/company/events/technologytour2007/index.epx.
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Events News AGILITY is Now a Comprehensive Agile PLM Program at Oracle OpenWorld August 2007
What: Oracle OpenWorld
When: November 11-15, 2007
Where: San Francisco Moscone Center Now as part of Oracle, Agile Software is pleased to announce that they have rolled AGILITY into a comprehensive Agile PLM program at Oracle OpenWorld. It’s the traditional Agile PLM program with luminary speakers, customers, executives, partners, and industry colleagues but with many more distinguished speakers, and a world-class customer appreciation event featuring Billy Joel, Prince and Stevie Nicks with Mick Fleetwood.
Every year, Oracle customers and partners come together at Oracle OpenWorld to learn, collaborate, and connect. Join us at Oracle OpenWorld, November 11-15, 2007 where you will:
• Attend a special two-and-a-half-day Agile PLM program, featuring business and technical
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sessions specifically designed for Agile’s customers (November 13-15)
• Hear Agile PLM success stories from senior customer executives. At past Agile PLM conferences, senior executives from companies ranging from Dell, Flextronics, Harris, Heinz, Hitachi, Johnson & Johnson, Metaldyne, Micron, Playtex, Qualcomm, Siemens, and ZF (just to name a few) have given their insight on product innovation and profitability
• Experience the latest in Oracle and Agile applications and information technologies
• Listen to Oracle I Agile executives reveal ongoing strategy, plans, and vision for Agile PLM applications
• Network with your peers and Oracle I Agile business partners
• Get inspiration from industry thought leaders and featured Keynote speakers, including Oracle CEO Larry Ellison; Oracle President Charles Phillips; AMD Chairman and CEO Hector De J. Ruiz, PhD; Dell Inc. Chairman of the Board and CEO Michael Dell; Intel Corporation President and CEO Paul Otellini; HP Chairman and CEO Mark Hurd; and Sun Microsystems, Inc. CEO and President Jonathan Schwartz
• Explore the Oracle DEMOgrounds, two exhibition halls featuring more than 350 partners and customers, and the Innovation Gallery zones sponsored by Intel Corporation
• Enjoy numerous networking and social activities, including the Agile PLM Customer Reception, Oracle OpenWorld Connect, sponsored by EMC; a welcome reception, sponsored by AMD; and the appreciation event sponsored by Network Appliance, Inc.—this year featuring Billy Joel, Prince and Stevie Nicks with Mick Fleetwood
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Dassault Systèmes to Host European CATIA Forum in Paris, November 6-7, 2007 4 September 2007
Dassault Systèmes (DS) announced it will host the 2007 European CATIA Forum on November 6-7, at Disneyland Paris, France. Themed “Let’s Be Imagineers”, the event will focus on how to bring life to innovative products with CATIA. During the international event dedicated to CATIA customers with participation from other DS brands and partners, DS will release several major announcements and highlight this year’s most significant
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ones, which include CATIA V5 SOA, 3DVIA, online CATIA applications, and CATIA PLM Express. Attendees will meet key players of business transformation; share major market trends, business cases and advanced strategies; and experience first-hand solutions that will take their businesses to the next level. In addition to numerous informal networking opportunities, this year’s forum goers will also be able to attend one-to-one meetings and themed breakfasts with DS experts and product managers, as well as DS partners. For complete information about the European CATIA Forum, including the full agenda and registration kit, please visit: http://www.3ds.com/ecforum.
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Delcam to Demo Adaptive Blade Repair at EMO 30 August 2007
Delcam will perform live demonstrations of the use of its software for the adaptive repair of turbine blades at the EMO exhibition to be held in Hannover from 17th to 22nd September. The technique, which will be shown on a Roeders machine tool fitted with Renishaw probing, is based on Delcam’s combination of expertise in software for both machining and inspection. This has been built up over many years of development of PowerMILL and PowerINSPECT.
Adaptive machining allows successful production and repair of the most complex components, by using in-process measurement to close the information gaps in the chain of operations.
The most common applications are those where the exact position of a heavy workpiece on the machine tool bed is unknown or when the precise shape of the starting material can vary, for example, when finish machining castings, forgings or large, flexible composite components.
The most challenging adaptive machining operations are those where the precise final shape of the component is unknown. This is needed when repairing turbine blades that have been distorted by the high temperatures in aircraft engines or other components that have been changed from their nominal CAD shape during service.
The initial stage of the process is to measure the blade with the Renishaw probe to determine the extent of its deviation from the nominal CAD data. Then, the morphing functionality in Delcam’s PowerSHAPE hybrid modeller can be used to bring the CAD model into line with the actual geometry. The probe is also used to determine the extent of the weld that needs to be machined away. With these measurements, toolpaths can be generated within PowerMILL that will remove the excess weld without violating the blade shape and without excessive air cutting.
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ESPRIT at Magnum Machinery Open House Sept. 12-13, 2007 30 August 2007
ESPRIT 2008, the latest software release from computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) industry innovator DP Technology, will be showcased Sept. 12-13, 2007, at the Magnum Machinery Open House in Albuquerque, N.M. Visitors to the open house will have the opportunity to see firsthand demonstrations of advancements
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made available within the latest generation of the product, including turning stock automation for lathes, open-pocket milling, EDM machine specific machining technology, improved 3D machining performance, B-axis turning for 5-axis mill-turn machines, and more. The new open pocket feature and open pocket machining cycles in ESPRIT 2008 combine to offer greater machining flexibility and improved cycle times when machining pockets with a combination of open edges and closed walls. These new machining cycles will allow the tool to hang partially over the open edge to improve the edge finish and provide a more constant cutter load throughout the cutting cycle. Numerous other additions and enhancements were made to ESPRIT in support of improving the productivity of both the milling programmer and milling machine tool. They include faster calculation times for building 3D toolpath, new adaptive facing machining cycles offering dramatically improved cycle times, an all new operation manager that simplifies the CNC programmers’ job of organizing machining processes and cutting tools, and new feature groups that allow the programmer to more easily manage the machining conditions for a collection of similar part features. The new 2008 stock automation technology allows ESPRIT to maintain awareness of the state of lathe stock at all times during the machining process. After each turning operation is created, ESPRIT will update the stock to reflect the actual remaining material based on the machining cycles and cutting tools used. This stock automation capability allows ESPRIT to automatically manage lead-in and lead-out distances and moves, and eliminates the possibility of gouging material or crashing tools, resulting in improved quality of the part program and significantly reduced programming time and effort. Increased performance and productivity for the lathe programmer are available with the new features in ESPRIT 2008, including new threading cycles with a database of standard thread dimensions, a new cutoff cycle with greater tool control, flexibility for a larger variety of cutting tools, improved material removal and machine simulation for more realistic computer based dry-runs, and the ability to handle an even larger variety of machine configurations (spindles and turrets) in support of today’s advanced multi-tasking and mill-turn machine tools. Among several enhancements to be demonstrated at the show and available in ESPRIT 2008 are significant improvements for milling, turning and wire EDM programming. In addition to increasing the performance of the CAM software, the upgrades reduce the time required to produce part programs while increasing the quality of those programs and helping to reduce machining cycle times.
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Mentor Graphics President to Speak at Citigroup’s Global Technology Conference August 28, 2007
Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced that Gregory K. Hinckley, President, will speak at Citigroup's 14th Annual Global Technology Conference in New York, NY. The conference runs from September 4-6, 2007.
Who: Gregory K. Hinckley, President, Mentor Graphics
What: Will present at Citigroup's 14th Annual Global Technology Conference
Where: Hilton New York Hotel, New York, NY When: Presentation takes place September 4, 1:45 p.m. Eastern Time
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Presentation will be webcast at http://www.mentor.com/company/investor_relations/index.cfm
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OSIsoft announces the Regional Seminar Series featuring the PI System August 27, 2007
Please join OSIsoft for a unique opportunity to broaden your knowledge of the capabilities available through this state-of-the-art, real-time information system as it is applied to improving Operational Strategies and Enterprise Information Systems. This will be a great opportunity to learn about new developments and to share your experiences with other regional users.
When: Thursday, August 30, 2007, 8:30am to 4:30pm
Where: Hyatt Regency, 350 North High Street, Columbus OH 43215. Tel: 614-463-1234. Fax: 614-280-3034
Cost: $50.00 USD per attendee
RSVP: Please register by August 23, 2007
Lodging: Lodging is available at the Hyatt Regency; please make your reservations directly with the hotel.
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Sign Up Now for Free Arena Solutions/Symphony Consulting Webcast Featuring Manufacturing Outsourcing Survey Results and Tips for Getting It Right 31 August 2007
TITLE: Manufacturing Outsourcing Survey Results 2007
WHEN: 10 a.m. Pacific, Thursday, September 13, 2007
FOR: Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), primarily small or mid-size, who wish to become more competitive through manufacturing outsourcing or who wish to gain greater control of their current manufacturing outsourcing efforts. SPEAKERS:
• Bijan Dastmalchi, co-founder and president of Symphony Consulting, Inc., a Silicon Valley consulting firm specializing in manufacturing outsourcing and supply chain management.
• Mark Holman, senior vice president of Operations and Strategic Development at Arena Solutions.
RSVP: http://www.arenaplm.com/forms/int_outsourcingwebinar_ma_07q3 (Upon registration, call in details will be provided.)
COST: Free
DETAILS:
Arena Solutions (http://www.arenasolutions.com/) and Symphony Consulting recently conducted a survey on the challenges of manufacturing outsourcing and the best practices for addressing them. Over
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800 manufacturers responded and results were startling. For example, research revealed that while 85 percent of the manufacturers surveyed outsource part or all of their manufacturing operations, nearly two-thirds of them risk the associated cost-savings because they lack adequate control and processes. The results of the study shed light on a very important trend in manufacturing. Every manufacturer who is outsourcing today and wants to improve their processes or who is considering outsourcing in the future should join Mark Holman, senior vice president of Operations and Strategic Development and Bijan Dastmalchi, co-founder and president of Symphony Consulting, Inc. for this free educational webcast where they will share the full results and implications of the study.
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SOA Consortium Presents: SOA Governance Roundtable Podcast—Experts from IBM, BEA, SAP AG and Cisco share their insights on SOA Governance August 27, 2007
The SOA Consortium™ today announced that a podcast and slide presentation of the SOA Governance Roundtable that was held at its recent European general meeting is now available on its website. To access the presentation, visit http://www.soa-consortium.org/podcast-pr.
The main objective of the SOA Governance Roundtable was to generate a meaningful conversation between Thought Leaders and meeting attendees on the hot topic of SOA Governance. Each Roundtable participant gave a five-minute overview of their thoughts on the following topics:
• SOA Governance Program Capabilities: ‘Top 3 key capabilities’ or ‘Three lesser known, but important capabilities’
• Human Factors in SOA Governance: Such as, the impact of SOA governance on the governed, or governors, or the use of social computing tools/technologies for effective SOA governance
• Best SOA Governance Practices from the Field: 2-3 best practices that their customers are employing
• Ties to IT and Corporate Governance: Discuss how (or how not) SOA Governance relates to IT Governance and Corporate Governance
SOA Governance Thought Leaders were:
• Fill Bowen, Marketing Manager, SOA Governance, IBM Software Group
• Ed Cobb, VP-Architecture & Standards, Office of the CTO, BEA Systems
• Christian Hastedt-Marckwardt, Solution Marketing Director, Enterprise SOA, SAP AG
• Clive Read, SONA Program, Cisco Systems
• Facilitator: Brenda Michelson, SOA Consortium Program Director After the individual presentations, SOA Consortium meeting attendees joined the discussion with questions and comments. The SOA Consortium mission, strategies and tactics center on the following premises:
• Service-oriented architecture adoption is a key enabler for the 21st century enterprise
• Achieving the benefits of service-oriented architecture requires significant changes for both IT and
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business executives
• Service-oriented architecture is a business agility story, not just an IT integration story
• Enterprise SOA practitioners would greatly benefit from a vibrant practitioner community to drive local, business-driven, SOA success, and to spur broader enterprise, and industry-wide, SOA adoption.
The next SOA Consortium meeting is September 26-27, 2007 in Jacksonville, FL at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront hotel. Organizations interested in joining the SOA Consortium and attending the meeting should visit the website, http://www.soa-consortium.org/ or email mailto:[email protected] for more information.
About The SOA Consortium The SOA Consortium is an advocacy group of end users, service providers and technology vendors committed to helping the Global 1000 successfully adopt Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) by 2010. SOA Consortium founding enterprise members include Fortune 200 companies in Financial Services, Travel, Manufacturing, Retail and Telecommunications. Founding sponsors are BEA Systems, Inc., Cisco, IBM Corporation, and SAP AG. Participants in the consortium to date include: Aberdeen Group, Adaptive, Inc, American Red Cross, Avis Budget Car Rental, Bank of America, Capability Measurement, Cape Clear Software, Inc., CellExchange, Inc., Center for Public-Private Enterprise, CGI, CSC, EDS, Equally Keen, Ltd., Federal Signal Corp., General Services Administration, Helm Solutions Group, HP, Hurwitz & Associates, Interoperability Clearinghouse, Integration Consortium, iWay Software, Kohl’s Department Stores, Lake Trail Partners, LLC, MAKE Technologies Inc., Maryfran Johnson & Associates, Object Management Group, Penn National Insurance, SAIC, PHS Operation, SDG Corporation, Sonoa Systems, TethersEnd Consulting, Thomas & Hebert, Torry Harris Business Solutions, WebEx Communications, Wells Fargo Bank, and ZapThink, LLC. Any organization may join the SOA Consortium. The SOA Consortium is managed by the Object Management Group.
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UGS PLM Software Hosts Digital Manufacturing Seminar in Korea 30 August 2007
UGS PLM Software, a division of Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D) will host its UGS PLM Software Digital Manufacturing Solution Seminar on Sept. 4 at the Grand Intercontinental Hotel in Seoul. The seminar will provide insight to help companies make their digital manufacturing strategy a reality and will give attendees a chance to learn more about the company’s latest digital manufacturing solution, UGS Tecnomatix™ 8 software. Digital manufacturing is a set of technologies within PLM that focuses on improving every aspect of how a company builds its products. Many of the world’s most forward-thinking manufacturers are embracing the technology – and have reported a number of benefits such as better asset utilization, reduced launch times, more predictable processes and improved profitability. A variety of topics will be covered during the seminar for participants to obtain information in order to implement and deploy digital manufacturing strategies, including UGS PLM Software’s digital manufacturing strategies and directions for local manufacturing companies to accelerate innovation on their production processes and success stories from such customers as Doosan Infracore using digital manufacturing solutions. The seminar will be joined by many partners such as Microsoft, Motion
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Captures, Citek and Space Solution. “Through this upcoming event, UGS PLM Software will introduce breakthrough digital manufacturing solutions that will help companies transform their knowledge into innovative solutions for future growth,” said Ron Close, vice president of Asia Pacific Marketing, UGS PLM Software. “We are confident that the customer-driven improvements in Tecnomatix® 8 have direct applicability to our customers’ business objectives and look forward to sharing ideas with them.” Tecnomatix® 8 is UGS PLM Software’s latest digital manufacturing software solution, which enables companies to improve manufacturing predictability and quality by better anticipating potential shop floor issues originating in product or process design. Tecnomatix 8 enhancements fall into two major categories – added strength for its industry leading PLM integration and the introduction of a next generation process planning and simulation capability. The result is enhanced predictability from product development to the shop floor, enabling companies to improve the manufacturability of product designs and to design robust, reliable and optimized manufacturing processes. For further information on the seminar and registration, please visit http://www.ugs.co.kr/.
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Unleashing 3D CAD with Seemage and SolidWorks August 27, 2007
1. Have you ever had a product delayed because required deliverables were late or incomplete?
2. Have late design changes ever raised manufacturing or quality issues?
3. Do you wish there was a way to reuse the knowledge in your SolidWorks® models to improve critical processes in your company outside engineering and design?
If the answer to any of these questions is yes, you will want to attend an exciting, free webinar entitled Unleashing 3D CAD: Improving business processes enterprise-wide with SolidWorks and Seemage.
Seemage and SolidWorks experts Computer Aided Technology Inc (CATI) will present next-generation technologies that leverage your existing investments in SolidWorks to improve core business processes including service, training, manufacturing planning, marketing and sales.
The webinar is scheduled for Wednesday, August 29, 2007 at 10am Central Daylight Time, 11am EDT, 8am PDT. Please click here to register, (or cut and paste this link into your browser if the link does not work:) http://www.meetingbridge.com/Seminar/registration.aspx?sessioncd=293816376. All attendees are eligible to receive a free license of Seemage Viz, worth $2600.
Attend this webinar to learn more about Seemage’s “product information everyware” vision, which allows anyone to rapidly create critical product deliverables directly from 3D SolidWorks CAD models. With Seemage you can increase the value of your investment in SolidWorks many times over.
You will learn how to use Seemage to:
• Quickly and easily produce sophisticated animations, service procedures, technical illustrations and more
• Easily integrate BOM into any product documentation
• Work with common desktop tools and formats like Microsoft® Office®, web and PDF.
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Financial News Open Text Reports Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2007 Financial Results 30 August 2007
Open Text™ Corporation announced unaudited financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended June 30, 2007(1). Total revenue for the fourth quarter was $175.2 million, compared to $105.2 million for the same period in the prior fiscal year. License revenue in the fourth quarter was $59.2 million, compared to $32.0 million in the fourth quarter of the prior fiscal year. License revenues grew 38% from $43.0 million in the previous quarter ended March 31, 2007. Adjusted net income in the quarter was $26.6 million or $0.52 per share on a diluted basis, compared to $15.4 million or $0.31 per share on a diluted basis for the same period in the prior fiscal year. Net income in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("US GAAP") was $8.2 million or $0.16 per share on a diluted basis, compared to $7.8 million or $0.16 per share on a diluted basis for the same period in the prior fiscal year(2). Total revenue for fiscal year 2007 was $595.7 million, compared to $409.6 million for the previous fiscal year. License revenue for fiscal year 2007 was $182.5 million, compared to $122.5 million in the previous fiscal year. Adjusted net income for fiscal year 2007 was $74.3 million, or $1.46 per share on a diluted basis, compared to adjusted net income for the previous fiscal year of $50.8 million, or $1.01 per share on a diluted basis. This represents a growth of 45% of adjusted EPS for the year. Net income for fiscal year 2007 in accordance with US GAAP was $21.7 million, or $0.43 per share on a diluted basis, compared to the prior fiscal year's net income of $5.0 million, or $0.10 per share on a diluted basis(2). Operating cash flow in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007 was $28.5 million, compared to $15.4 million in the fourth quarter of the prior fiscal year. For the full 2007 fiscal year, Open Text generated $110.9 million in operating cash flow compared to $60.8 million in fiscal 2006. "The Company plans to make an additional debt repayment of $30 million. This will reduce our debt from $390 million at the time of the Hummingbird acquisition to approximately $327 million this quarter. We are pleased with our accelerated repayment of the debt ahead of schedule and planning for future lump sum debt repayments will continue to be reviewed on a periodic basis," said Paul McFeeters, Chief Financial Officer of Open Text. The cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments balance as of June 30, 2007 was $150.0 million. Accounts receivable as of June 30, 2007, totaled $128.8 million, compared to $75.0 million as of June 30, 2006, and Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) was 66 days in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007, compared to 64 days in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2006. "I am very pleased with our performance in the quarter and for the full fiscal year. The integration of Hummingbird has gone well and investments in our partner strategy are paying off," said John Shackleton, President and Chief Executive Officer of Open Text. "We will continue to focus on profitability as we now position the Company for growth in fiscal 2008." Please see note (2) below for a reconciliation of non-US GAAP based financial measures used in this
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press release, to US GAAP based financial measures.
Teleconference Call Open Text will host a conference call on August 30, 2007 at 5:00 p.m. ET to discuss the final financial results of its fourth quarter and fiscal year-end 2007. Date: Thursday, August 30, 2007
Time: 5:00 p.m. ET/2:00 p.m. PT
Length: 60 minutes
Where: 416-640-1907
Please dial-in approximately 10 minutes before the teleconference is scheduled to begin. A replay of the call will be available beginning August 30, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. ET through 11:59 p.m. on September 13, 2007 and can be accessed by dialing 416-640-1917 and using pass code 21238674 followed by the number sign. For more information or to listen to the call via Web cast, please use the following link:
http://www.opentext.com/events/event.html?id=5726174
Notes
(1) Based on comparison of historic revenue figures publicly disseminated by companies in the Enterprise Content Management ("ECM") sector. All dollar amounts in this press release are in US Dollars unless otherwise indicated. (2) In addition to these GAAP and adjusted results the Company has provided financial information that adds-back maintenance revenue eliminated due to the impact of purchase accounting entries on deferred revenue and the impact of interest expense. Management believes that the furnishing of these adjustments provide a consistent basis for comparison between quarters and help to more accurately reflect Open Text's underlying operating results.
Implementation Investments Cost-Effective, Ultra-High-Quality Test Results Using Synopsys DFT MAX Achieved at SHARP 27 August 2007
Synopsys, Inc. announced that SHARP Corporation has evaluated the Synopsys DFT MAX solution to achieve higher test quality for its SoC designs. SHARP is among several semiconductor firms, including the Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center (STARC) research and development consortium, collaborating with Synopsys to develop new automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) technology that targets small delay defects to further increase the quality of manufacturing tests. SHARP has demonstrated in working silicon that this new small delay defect ATPG technology improves quality and is cost-effective when deployed with DFT MAX to compress the test data. "SHARP believes that test quality is very important, so we are evaluating Synopsys' small delay defect ATPG technology on production designs," said Hiroyuki Shibata, department general manager, LSI Test Engineering Department, Production Center, Large-Scale IC Group at SHARP. "We wanted to apply all the patterns without slowing down the production line or making costly changes to our ATE
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infrastructure. We achieved this by reducing the test data volume by 95 percent using DFT MAX to implement scan compression on-chip. We would like to use DFT MAX in our SoC designs to improve quality." Standard stuck-at test patterns are ineffective at detecting many timing-sensitive defects, so semiconductor companies are now using at-speed tests to cover these defects for nanometer processes. Transition-delay testing for complex designs has led to an explosion in the total number of test patterns required to properly test a device. The resulting inflation in both pattern count and test data volume per pattern has increased the time required to test each device, creating bottlenecks in production testing. Working seamlessly within Synopsys' Galaxy™ Design Platform, DFT MAX uses Adaptive Scan technology to substantially reduce the amount of test data required for each test pattern, achieving predictable results with virtually no impact on timing. By avoiding the use of complex sequential state machines for compression/decompression, DFT MAX minimizes the silicon area overhead of compression and alleviates wire congestion that can lead to routing problems during physical implementation. "We welcome SHARP to the growing ranks of DFT MAX users in Japan and look forward to continued collaboration to validate Synopsys' advanced ATPG technologies," said Graham Etchells, director of Test Marketing, Synopsys Implementation Group. "SHARP's remarkable success demonstrates that ultra-high-quality testing is not only feasible, but is also cost-effective when combined with DFT MAX."
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Enterasys Selects BigMachines Lean Front-End® to Streamline Quote and Configuration Processes August 28, 2007
BigMachines, Inc., the leading provider of on-demand configuration and quoting software, announced today that Enterasys, a leader in network security hardware, software, and services, has selected the BigMachines CPP (Configure, Price, Propose) solution to help manage information across multiple global sales channels. Specifically, Enterasys will use BigMachines integrated with Salesforce.com and SAP to help their sales teams and channel partners generate quotes, manage product configurations, and enter orders.
Enterasys designs, deploys, supports and services integrated hardware and software solutions that intelligently sense and automatically respond to security threats – and proactively prevent threats from entering your network. Enterasys is based in Andover, MA in the Boston-metro area.
“BigMachines Lean Front End is the most flexible application we evaluated. The LFE gives us the greatest ability to support our business needs,” said Benjamin Doyle, Director of IT Applications. “The LFE is also the best fit in terms of integrating into our existing application environment while ensuring ease of use for our employees and partners around the globe.”
BigMachines CPP will be tightly integrated with Enterasys’s Salesforce.com CRM system to provide a single view of customer data, in addition to automatically updating sales forecasts as quotes and orders are created and changed. Enterasys will also open the application to resellers to allow them to quickly and efficiently quote the Enterasys product line. Godard Abel, CEO of BigMachines, stated, “We are delighted that Enterasys has selected BigMachines and will join our growing list of hi-tech customers. Their network security solutions demonstrate the
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need for robust global configuration, pricing, and quote management tools that can integrate with their CRM and ERP systems. These needs are a great fit for our capabilities, and we look forward to delivering a fast ROI to Enterasys.”
About Enterasys Networks Enterasys Networks—the Secure Networks Company—is owned by a private investor group led by The Gores Group, LLC and Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC. Enterasys’ unique Secure Networks solutions secure any network and ensure the confidentiality, integrity, availability and performance of IT services and the business users that rely on them. Thousands of leading companies, government agencies and educational institutions in more than 70 countries rely on Secure Networks solutions to maintain business continuity and protect vital information. The company's culture is centered on the principle "There is nothing more important than our customers." Delivering on that commitment, Secure Networks provides granular, policy-based visibility and control of individual user, application, device, port and flow performance, and security. Enterasys’ architectural approach to network security offers a long technology lifecycle and significant operational and business benefits, while reducing total cost of ownership.
About BigMachines, Inc. and BigMachines AG BigMachines, Inc. founded in 1999, provides web-based configurator, quoting, and proposal software and services to help companies streamline their selling processes from customer inquiry-to-order. BigMachines Lean Front-End® (LFE) solution digitizes complex selling processes and captures an organization's tribal knowledge to provide online product selection, configuration, quoting, and ordering capabilities for new products and aftermarket parts. BigMachines LFE provides in-depth sales reporting capabilities and easily integrates to existing ERP, CAD, and CRM systems.
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Family of Companies to Standardize on IFS Applications August 27, 2007
IFS, the global enterprise applications company, announced today that Channel Products Inc., a Chesterland, Ohio-based manufacturer of ignition controls for gas appliances, has gone live on IFS Applications 7.
According to Channel Products CEO Dave Wozencraft, the company and other subsidiaries of its Santa Barbara-based parent, Channel Technologies Inc. will benefit from more timely financial and management reporting and increased flexibility, allowing process improvements that will help the family of companies to better serve its customers. Channel Technologies will also implement IFS Applications at its headquarters and other subsidiaries. .
"Our IFS Applications implementation went more smoothly than I expected," Channel Products President Dave Wozencraft said. "Our internal implementation team, managers from Channel Technologies and IFS worked seamlessly with our consultant, Norma Davis of Connective Edge Resources, who did an excellent job to ensure a smooth transition. We knew going in that this was more than an IT project, but rather an organization-wide initiative that required involvement of multiple business disciplines to succeed." "It is very unusual to have such a smooth cutover to a new system, and this speaks to the strength and dedication of the implementation teams," Davis said. "Channel Technologies and Channel Products
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teams were able to work effectively as one team across organizational and departmental boundaries." "Standardizing on IFS Applications is a very sound strategy for uniting divisions or subsidiaries into a unified company," IFS North America President and CEO Cindy Jaudon said. "Channel Technologies and its subsidiaries represent a diverse range of business models ranging from make-to-stock to engineer-to-order, and serve both government and commercial customers. IFS is uniquely suited to meet the diverse needs of such a broad family of companies."
About Channel Products and Channel Technologies Headquartered in Chesterland, Ohio and with facilities in Jefferson, Ohio and China, Channel Products, Inc. is a leading design and manufacturing company that supplies electronic and piezoceramic ignitors, gas ignition safety controls, electrodes and sensor assemblies, wire assemblies, and accessories to the gas appliance industry worldwide. Additional products include piezoelectric ceramic materials, piezoelectric transducers, nebulizers, sensors, filters and resonators. Established in 1983 as a parent company that evolved from the original company Channel Industries Inc., Channel Technologies, Inc. and its subsidiaries founded in Santa Barbara, California has been a part of the Santa Barbara community for nearly 50 years. The Channel Technologies, Inc. family of companies is comprised of six wholly owned subsidiaries, each of which excels in the development and manufacturing of their particular product line, providing a wide range of equipment and products for commercial and government contracts.
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Fluid Simulation Reduces Valve Prototype Development Time from 3 Months to 1 Day August 2007
Aerospace valve manufacturer Shaw Aero Devices, Inc., Naples, Florida, saved at least $9000 and three months in prototyping costs by using Flomerics’ EFD.Lab computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software to iterate to an optimized design. The CFD results for each iteration provided insights into how the design could be improved. Rob Preble, Project Engineer for Shaw, created a design that provided the required pressure drop without the need to build a single hardware prototype. “CFD simulation dramatically reduced the time needed to meet our customer’s demanding specifications,” Preble concluded. “We moved from the beginning of the project to the development of an acceptable software prototype in only one day.”
Shaw Aero Devices designs, develops and manufactures a wide range of products in the areas of fuel, oil and water/waste systems and components. Shaw’s customer was interested in purchasing a large quantity of a solenoid valve similar to one of their standard products for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The customer specified a pressure drop of 0.75 pounds per square inch (psi) at a flow rate of 4.45 gallons per minute (gpm) while Shaw’s standard valve measured out at 6.09 psi. In the past, this would have required building and testing a series of designs in an effort to eliminate constrictions with no guarantee of success.
Instead, Preble simulated fluid flow within the original standard product design. EFD.Lab reduced the time required to simulate flow by analyzing the model and automatically identifying fluid and solid regions without user interaction. Preble then ran a series of simulations of the original design at flow rates from 1 to 5 gpm and the simulation predicted the pressure drop with an error of less than 10% at every point. Preble then created a series of design iterations, changing each design to reduce pressure
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drop guided by the CFD results of the previous iteration. For example, in viewing the cut plot of the pressure gradient of the first design run, Preble noticed that the angled wing seat was causing a significant portion of the pressure drop. In order to address this issue he modeled the new valve with a larger opening below the solenoid poppet and removed the angled valve seat. The CFD simulation showed that this change substantially reduced the pressure drop to 1.09 psi. But it was still too high. Further changes to the design reduced the pressure drop across the valve to an acceptable 0.71 psi. “We had complete confidence in the simulation results because EFD.Lab had provided such an accurate simulation of the original design,” Preble concluded. “Without CFD, this knowledge would have been hard won. We would have had to go through a minimum of three prototypes, more likely several more. Each prototype would have cost $3000 and taken a month to manufacture, build and test. We took our simulation results to the customer and we were awarded the contract to build the valve. We are so confident that the new configuration will work we are not planning on building any prototypes. This application provides an excellent example of how the new generation of easy to use CFD software is helping to dramatically improve the design process at small and medium manufacturers with products that involve fluid flow.”
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JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Selects MSC.Software's Marc for Thermal-Structural Simulation Program August 28, 2007
MSC.Software, the leading global provider of enterprise simulation solutions including simulation software and services, today announced that JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Japan's core organization for aerospace technology, has selected their solution, Marc, as their thermal-structural simulation program for nonlinear structural analysis.
As a core organization for aerospace technology, JAXA promotes activities ranging from basic research to technology development and utilization. Marc will perform thermal-structural simulation in a research project on structural reliability assessment technology for the Institute of Aerospace Technology. It will be used to develop integrated simulation such as the complex phenomenon of thermal radiation.
A solution was needed to address the strong-coupling problem of thermal, structural, fluid, and material. The introduction of an alternative nonlinear analytical program was considered but because of the ease-of-use of MSC.Software's Marc with Mentat which was already in use at JAXA, along with its effective integration with MSC Nastran, Marc was selected.
"Marc is a well-known, easy to use and respected program for nonlinear structural analysis that collaborates with MSC Nastran," said Yutaka Sato, director of Structure Technology Center at JAXA. "Marc will play a significant role in building the thermal-structural simulation which is one of the important pillars of this project."
"We are very pleased that we can contribute to the security of our country by supporting the leading-edge engineering development of aerospace technology," said Toru Kawaguchi, president, MSC.Software Ltd. Japan. "We believe that MSC.Software's technology which effectively allows coupled analysis over different domains will achieve the JAXA's technological development goals."
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Leading German Consulting Firm Brunel Selects HyperWorks Engineering Framework 29 August 2007
Altair Engineering, Inc. announced that Germany’s Brunel, a leading engineering consulting firm specializing in project development and innovation, has included the use of HyperWorks into its tool sets employed for service offerings. Starting with service and consultancy projects within the automotive industry, the engineering service provider will use the software framework both on site at their customers and within their competence centers.
To date, HyperWorks results have shown great potential in automotive applications. As a result, Brunel sees the need for HyperWorks also within other industries, such as the aerospace industry. Primarily, Brunel is using OptiStruct for topology optimization especially within the first development phases. HyperMesh will be used for the meshing of finite-element models within its competence centers and on site at different customers for consulting projects. Brunel will extend the use of HyperWorks to other areas and industries, as requested.
“We have been using HyperWorks for the optimization of components since February 2007, following a customer request coming from an automotive OEM,” said Peter Mikolaj, manager of Numerical Simulation, at Brunel, Germany. “We are very pleased with the results we have from HyperWorks, and plan to apply especially HyperMesh and OptiStruct in upcoming projects for our aerospace and automotive customers. HyperWorks offers us the possibility to work very closely with our customers, as well as react quickly to any request within the areas of optimization and meshing. As an integrated solution, HyperWorks provides a smooth development process and has put the powerful tools our engineers need within easy reach. For the future, I see a high need for the HyperWorks framework coming from all of our customers and from any industry.”
“Simulation tools such as HyperWorks provide the answer to many engineering challenges for today’s industries. Especially within the area of optimization, we expect more requests from customers such as we have had from Brunel in the engineering service area,” said Dr. Detlef Schneider, managing director of Altair Engineering, Germany. “All industries have to frontload their development processes and will need to optimize their products as early as possible. The HyperWorks framework is an integrated solution, offering all the tools needed to deal with engineering tasks within this area. I am very happy that Brunel has chosen HyperWorks, and I am sure that the Brunel engineers and their customers will soon benefit from the excellent results achieved with HyperWorks.”
Altair HyperMesh is a user-friendly, high-performance finite-element pre- and post-processor for popular finite-element solvers. It allows engineers to analyze product design performance in a highly interactive and visual environment. It also contains a morphing capability that permits users to quickly parameterize models and stretch finite-element meshes, while keeping mesh distortion at a minimum.
Altair OptiStruct is a highly advanced finite element-based software for both structural analysis and design optimization. OptiStruct is used to design, evaluate and improve performance of mechanical structures. Unlike classical finite-element solvers, OptiStruct software proposes new and better solutions throughout the entire design process. Powerful optimization routines are deeply integrated with popular analysis types, including linear statics, buckling and frequency analysis – making design optimization easy, robust and accurate.
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Mayerton Group signs major deal with IFS to standardize its global operations August 28, 2007
IFS, the global enterprise applications company, today announced that Mayerton Group has chosen IFS Applications to manage its global business with greater agility. The contract is valued at just over $1m and will deploy IFS Applications across the entire Mayerton Group’s operations.
The Mayerton Group has its headquarters in the Isle of Man, UK, a major manufacturing operation in China, and a global sales operation. The Group is a leading manufacturer and supplier of high quality refractories and tailor-made refractory solutions for the global iron and steel and non-ferrous industries.
“We are expanding our business and have recently added to our existing facilities in China by constructing the world’s most advanced refractory brick producing plant,” Mayerton Group Chief Operations Officer Adam Clayton said. “As part of that expansion we needed to look at our internal systems and after a review of the marketplace, and shortlisting IFS, SAP and Oracle, we have chosen IFS to support our global operations. We need a scaleable and agile solution which can be deployed quickly combined with the ability to run our global operations. IFS met those requirements and had a close cultural match to our business.”
Paul Massey, Managing Direcor, IFS UK, says “IFS is very pleased to be partnering the Mayerton Group. They have invested heavily in new automated production facilities and IFS Applications will help automate the supply chain processes thus enabling them to continue providing the excellent customer service they achieve today”.
The process industry is one of IFS' seven targeted markets. IFS provides industry-specific functionality for enterprises in the metals, pulp and paper, food and beverage, and chemicals segments. IFS Applications for the process industry provides support for all critical business processes, including reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), plant design, maintenance management, standardized real-time automation integration, order handling, manufacturing management, quality management, and demand planning. The application suite includes a complete asset and product lifecycle management solution.
IFS customers in the metals industry include Hutmen, SSAB, HMN Szopienice, WM Dziedzice, Nucor Corp., Elkem AS, and Surahammars Bruk. Other IFS process industry customers include Stora Enso, Holmen Paper, SCA Graphics, Pepsi, Iams, V&S Absolut Spirits, DuPont, Flint Group, Willamette Valley Co., Akzo Nobel, Becker Industrial Coatings, Jotun, and SICPA.
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Mentor Graphics and the College of Automotive Engineering of Tongji University Create Joint Lab and Technical Training Center for Auto Electronic System Design 28 August 2007
Mentor Graphics Corporation announced an agreement with the College of Automotive Engineering of Tongji University, China to set up a Joint Lab and Technical Training Center for Auto Electronic System Design in Shanghai. Mentor Graphics will donate over US$16 million (about RMB123 million) worth of software to Tongji University in order to support Tongji’s teaching and research programs on
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auto electronic and electric design. Designer training is important in meeting the demand of China’s auto market and developing independent brands in the industry, while auto electronic system design is the key element and the most technical part of auto design. Yu Zhuoping, Dean of the College of Automotive Engineering, Tongji University, said, “Our cooperation with Mentor Graphics gives researchers, faculty and students of the College access to the most advanced auto electronic system design software in the world. We are confident that this cooperation will enhance Tongji University’s research capabilities and its influence on both domestic and international auto electronic system industry.” Danny Perng, General Manager, Mentor Graphics China, said: “The rapidly developing China market has been a top priority for Mentor Graphics. We have been increasing our input in China in recent years. By engaging in strategic cooperation with the College of Automotive Engineering of Tongji University and other specialized academic institutions, Mentor Graphics makes its substantive contribution to high-level technical personnel training in East China with our quality products and service capabilities in the China market. Mentor Graphics has set up joint labs with many leading education institutions in China, such as Beijing University and China Academy of Science. Its new joint lab with the College of Automotive Engineering of Tongji University will be another solid base for supporting companies to train up qualified personnel in auto electronic system design.” The College of Automotive Engineering is dedicated to scientific innovation and new energy automobile development, featuring innovative research mechanism and organization and providing a complete range of technical services to the automobile industry in the country. The new energy automotive engineering research program of the College has become an important base for innovation and talent training in the country’s independent development of new energy automobiles. The College is equipped with up-to-date teaching and research facilities. Thanks to support from the relevant Commissions and Ministries of the central government, local government authorities, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (Group) and many multi-nationals, the College now boasts world-class automobile and engine research and test equipment, e.g., running drum test-beds, engine exhaust analyzers, vibration tables that simulate road surface profile, semi-anechoic rooms, 3-D measuring machines as well as up-to-date and complete testing environment for new energy power train and key components. The College is now building two first-class auto product R&D bases, the Shanghai Ground Transportation Vehicle Wind Tunnel Center and the Automobile Styling Research Center. The College also undertakes several state-level key research projects, including “fuel-cell sedan car research,” an “863” key project. For more information, please visit http://web.tongji.edu.cn/~istju/eng/yuanxi7.htm. The Mentor Graphics Higher Education Program provides leading edge design tools and support to universities and colleges for classroom instruction and academic research, to ensure that engineering graduates enter into the industry proficient in state-of-the-art tools and methodologies. Established in 1985, the Higher Education Program develops long term relationships with engineering colleges and universities around the world, and currently has more than 1,100 member colleges in 49 countries. For more information, please visit the HEP website: http://www.mentor.com/company/higher_ed/index.cfm.
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Metso Paper, Inc Signs Contract Worth Over $4.5million with AVEVA 28 August 2007
AVEVA announced that Metso Paper, Inc has signed a contract worth over $4.5million with AVEVA
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for a range of applications within the AVEVA Plant product portfolio. Metso Paper is a global leader in pulping, papermaking and power generation, as well as panelboard technologies, offering its customers a comprehensive range of products and services. Metso Paper's expert service and aftermarket operations improve the life-cycle-long efficiency of customer processes. According to Ismo Vaiste, General Manager Engineering Systems at Metso Paper "Using applications from the AVEVA Plant portfolio including AVEVA PDMS and AVEVA Global, will enable offices and partners to work concurrently towards the same data model, independent of geographical distances and time zones." Martin Yeomans, AVEVA Executive Vice President WEMEA commented, "Metso is acknowledged as one of the world's leading providers of technology and automation to the Pulp and Paper market and we are proud to be working in partnership with Metso on such an international project portfolio. "Key to our success at Metso is the AVEVA Global solution providing a unique capability to facilitate complex project execution globally. AVEVA has always been a very strong player in the Pulp and Paper markets globally and the relationship established between Metso and AVEVA further underlines AVEVA's market leading position."
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Philadelphia Stock Exchange Transforms IT Process and Workflow With Serena Software August 28, 2007
Serena Software, Inc. today announced that Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX), one of the most diverse financial exchanges in the world, has deployed Serena® TeamTrack® to automate and streamline its software development processes. With Serena’s solution for centralized IT process management, PHLX has eliminated paper-based processes, improved application quality, and significantly reduced the time required to administer audits.
“We now have clear audit trails from the initial change request all the way into production,” said Bernie Donnelly, vice president of quality assurance, PHLX. In fact, the company used Serena TeamTrack for a recent Commodity Futures Trading Commission audit to deliver 60,000 electronic pages to auditors within 10 days of the request. “The auditors were very impressed with our ability to quickly access data and information. We’ve set a new standard for the futures industry,” said Donnelly. Before deploying TeamTrack, it took “a small army” of team members one full month to collect boxes full of change control documents, review and index papers, and make photocopies for auditors. With electronic files captured and stored in TeamTrack, PHLX has eliminated paper and storage fees resulting in significant cost savings.
One of the biggest challenges PHLX faces is managing enormous volumes of application changes to support the company’s complex, customer-facing financial applications. Serena TeamTrack has given PHLX a framework for enforcing change control processes, with necessary checks and balances for developers to ensure high levels of quality. With automated approval authorizations, workflow routing, and full traceability for audits, PHLX is much more productive as an IT department, handling more change requests without hiring additional staff.
A long-time Serena® ChangeMan® ZMF and Serena® PVCS® Version Manager™ customer, PHLX saw an opportunity to replace its manual change control processes with an automated workflow-based solution. The company reviewed several vendors but found Serena TeamTrack to be the most robust,
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flexible solution on the market. With TeamTrack, PHLX has automated and simplified its signature approval process. The new electronic signature process has reduced change request approval cycles by several days, saving 2,500 hours in administration. Previously, approvals requiring seven paper-based signatures were manually routed through the office, taking several days to get approved. “Leading financial institutions like PHLX understand that IT must deliver high-quality applications in a timely, efficient manner to maintain a competitive advantage in the industry,” said René Bonvanie, senior vice president of worldwide marketing, partner programs, and online services at Serena Software. “Serena will soon deliver a revolutionary new version of TeamTrack that will take companies like PHLX to a whole new level of fast application development and deployment. Together, we will empower a new class of business developers to deliver even greater value to the business.”
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Simulia: Glass Service Improve BV Reduces Time And Cost of Bottle Blow Molding with Realistic Simulation Solutions from Dassault Systèmes 30 August 2007
Dassault Systèmes (DS) announced that Glass Service Improve BV, a provider of advanced solutions for glass manufacturing, is using professional services and Abaqus Unified Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software from SIMULIA to accelerate and optimize the development process of non-round glass bottle forming.
Glass bottle manufacturers in general, but especially flaconage producers creating complex non-round geometries, are under significant market pressure to produce containers, in a variety of sizes and shapes, quickly and at lower costs. The 3D glass forming analysis method, also applicable to other forming and industrial applications, makes it possible for designers to accurately evaluate the optimum blow mold process in a virtual environment, reducing or eliminating costly physical testing.
“New container designs have traditionally been introduced through a trial-and-error process in a live production environment,” stated Gerard de Leede, managing director, Glass Service Improve BV. “Increased market pressure has made the old process impractical. SIMULIA’s expertise and Abaqus FEA software make it possible for our customers, such as Bormioli Luigi, to save money and shorten time to market for boutique glass designs like perfume bottles.”
“Customer partnerships, innovative methods development and advanced simulation technology are what set us apart in industries where the use of predictive simulation is rapidly increasing,” stated Ken Short, vice president, SIMULIA strategy and marketing. “During a services engagement, our engineering teams work to gain a thorough understanding of our clients’ requirements and processes in order to develop a solution that helps get new products to market reliably and efficiently.”
In collaboration with Glass Service Improve, SIMULIA has developed a methodology that uses an automated remeshing technique to simulate a multistage manufacturing process involving viscous materials that are subjected to high temperatures, large geometry deformation, and complex contact. This methodology is central to Glass Service Improve’s Galileo-Plus product, which uses Abaqus FEA technology to enable designers to reliably simulate the glass forming process from beginning to end.
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Small Auto Racing Parts Maker Does Big Business Using SolidWorks Software 29 August 2007
A small New Hampshire company making aftermarket parts for racing cars is using SolidWorks® 3D CAD software to perform like a larger company. “It allows me to play with the big boys and source manufacturing partners anywhere on the planet,” said Hardbar USA founder Gary Hoffman. “I don’t need a staff of 20 people, and I can’t afford millions of dollars in machine tools. But now I can design a great product, push a button, and send SolidWorks 3D CAD files to my partners, whether they’re across town or in California.”
Hardbar USA takes its name from its signature light, strong, and durable harness bars that anchor full-body racing harnesses popular on the Sports Car Club of America racing circuit. SolidWorks software has helped the company develop high-performance brake parts, composite wings, racing seat mounts, camcorder fixtures, and more.
As a former aerospace engineer, Hoffman has worked with virtually all the CAD offerings on the market. He switched to SolidWorks last year because it was the one most of the machine shops in his industry were using. Their choice was affirmed when he first started using it. “It was amazing,” he said. “I realized you could teach yourself.”
Hoffman says SolidWorks software helps him design better products by getting plans right the first time. In fact, saving one or two mistakes on a $5,000 wing mold more than pays for the software. He has refined his accuracy by importing GM’s Corvette® automotive designs into SolidWorks as STEP files and designing all new parts to the proper dimensions. He uses SolidWorks renderings to gauge and generate demand for a product before manufacturing it to avoid investing in products that won’t sell. “The biggest challenge for my business is throughput, and getting it right the first time saves time and money,” Hoffman said.
Having a design for one car in SolidWorks makes it easy to adapt the design with minimal effort to other vehicles. With one click, for example, Hoffman can modify his five-hole Corvette alignment tool for a six-hole Dodge Viper® wheel. He uses the COSMOSXpress™ analysis tool embedded in SolidWorks to run thermal and stress analysis on brake parts for safety and durability. The heat maps help customers understand and appreciate the value of his designs.
His latest SolidWorks-designed product is a Universal Camcorder Mount that, with a twist of an allen wrench, lets drivers capture the drama on the track or the data coming from their instrument panels.
“This story illustrates the value of participating in the worldwide community of SolidWorks users,” Rainer Gawlick, vice president of worldwide marketing for SolidWorks Corporation. “For Gary and many like him, being an entrepreneur requires not only superior products, but finding new and better ways of doing business. The critical mass of SolidWorks users in the racing community, together with the unique capabilities of SolidWorks, help businesses like Hardbar USA thrive.”
Hardbar USA uses authorized SolidWorks reseller CADD Edge for ongoing software training, implementation, and support.
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Synopsys Lowers the Cost of Semiconductor Testing at Tessolve 28 August 2007
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Synopsys, Inc. announced that Tessolve has adopted Synopsys' DFT MAX scan compression solution to reduce the costs of semiconductor testing and diagnostics. DFT MAX automates creation of scan compression circuits on-chip that substantially decrease the amount of data and time required to test complex ASICs. Tessolve selected DFT MAX because it achieved the best test time/test data reduction results and was easiest to embed within the company's existing design-for-test (DFT) and failure analysis flows. "It is very easy to achieve high compression using Synopsys' DFT MAX solution," said Mohit Bansal, director of DFT Engineering at Tessolve. "DFT MAX is a straightforward extension of the standard scan techniques using Synopsys' DFT Compiler and TetraMAX ATPG design flows currently in use at Tessolve. Because TetraMAX supports automated diagnosis of DFT MAX-compressed test patterns, analysis of failed patterns on the ATE can be completed much faster and cost-effectively." Synopsys' DFT MAX solution utilizes Adaptive Scan compression technology to minimize test costs by substantially reducing both test application time and test data volume. By avoiding the use of complex sequential state machines for compression/decompression, DFT MAX disperses test logic throughout the design, alleviating wire-routing congestion and reducing the silicon area overhead cost of compression. TetraMAX® diagnostics automate failure analysis of manufactured parts by identifying circuits that could contribute to mismatches between expected results generated by the TetraMAX automatic test pattern generator (ATPG) and observed responses of the device under test. "Design services firms like Tessolve need an integrated DFT solution that minimizes the design effort as well as tester-related costs," said Graham Etchells, director of marketing, Test Automation at Synopsys. "Because migration to DFT MAX can be accomplished in days instead of months, our customers quickly see tangible benefits from applying more types of test patterns to achieve even higher test quality."
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Tractair Accelerates Brake System Development with SolidWorks August 27, 2007
Tractair, Ltd. is using SolidWorks® 3D CAD software to design the air and hydraulic brakes that farmers, construction workers, and others driving heavy duty tractors and off-road vehicles rely on to stop quickly and safely. Tractair’s brake systems enable customers to safely operate larger equipment carrying heavier loads at faster speeds than ever before.
Based in Brough, U.K., Tractair has spearheaded development of air brake systems which–unlike traditional hydraulic systems–deliver finely controlled, powerful stopping capabilities for both the tractor and the trailer for the bigger loads customers pull today. The company standardized on SolidWorks software to speed up the design and development process.
“We’re working with engineering departments 50 times our size,” said Tractair Managing Director David Constantine. “SolidWorks levels the playing field because its table-driven format gives us repeatable designs that we can quickly modify to meet specific customer needs and design better products. That’s huge when you’re designing brake systems to fit on tractors for John Deere, New Holland, and Massey Ferguson.” SolidWorks allows Tractair to send customized brake system models to customers in the CAD format of their choice. That flexibility, coupled with time-saving features such as physical simulation, streamlined
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large assembly design, and automated bill of materials creation and updating help Constantine and his team reduce overall development cycles, costs, and time to delivery. This productivity has played a key role in the company’s 75 percent growth in the past five years. “Stopping a 40-ton load traveling 50 kilometers per hour is not a simple task,” said SolidWorks Marketing Manager, Europe Simon Booker. “Tractair has an impressive list of globally recognized customers precisely because it has developed an efficient braking system capable of such demands – even as customers continue to push the limits of weight, velocity, and size.” Tractair relies on authorized SolidWorks reseller CADConnect for ongoing software training, implementation, and support.
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Product News Bentley Releases Enhanced AutoPLANT P&ID; New Version Adds Support for AutoCAD 2007 and AutoCAD 2008 August 27, 2007
Bentley has released a significant enhancement to AutoPLANT P&ID, a well-established and proven product that includes all the components needed to create P&ID CAD drawings quickly and uniformly. Version 8.9.3 of AutoPLANT P&ID brings important new capabilities, including support for AutoCAD 2007 and AutoCAD 2008 and greater compatibility with ISO 15926. The new version’s support for AutoCAD 2007 and AutoCAD 2008 enables AutoPLANT users to stay abreast of the latest versions of AutoCAD. At the same time, because AutoPLANT v8.9.3 also maintains full support for legacy versions of AutoCAD, AutoPLANT users enjoy the flexibility of deploying the AutoCAD version of their choice. AutoPLANT P&ID v8.9.3 continues to support the export of data in ISO 15926-compatible format and achieves even greater levels of compatibility. Going forward, those capabilities will continue to be expanded. AutoPLANT P&ID project data can be exported in an ISO 15926-compatible format for storage in Bentley’s ProjectWise Lifecycle Server or for use with any other application mapped to the ISO 15926 schema. Other key features of AutoPLANT P&ID include:
• AutoCAD-based – AutoPLANT is based on AutoCAD, ensuring that users can make full use of their AutoCAD training while creating and editing P&IDs. With continuing support for the latest versions of AutoCAD, AutoPLANT P&ID leverages the latest versions of AutoCAD and adds to the productivity of AutoCAD. Moreover, users familiar with AutoCAD will be immediately productive with AutoPLANT P&ID.
• Creates fast, simple, and consistent reports and lists – AutoPLANT P&ID populates a project database while the drawing is being created and modified. By using labels with predefined fields, tag data format is always consistent and correctly inserted into the project database. Reports are automatically extracted from the database in predefined formats.
• Checks data consistency quickly – AutoPLANT P&ID provides built-in consistency checking. It will check for connectivity and data consistency along pipe lines. Inconsistencies such as branch line
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sizes exceeding header sizes or valve sizes different than line sizes without reducing components are highlighted and reported, ensuring errors are reviewed and fixed sooner.
• Maintains consistent drawing quality – AutoPLANT P&ID uses “spec-driven” valve placement functions, drag-and-drop symbol placement, and predefined line styles to ensure drawings are created to project standards. All tags are predefined, ensuring that tag styles are consistent across the project.
• Integrates with external relational project database – AutoPLANT P&IDs are created as part of a project. An external project database is automatically created according to the project data schema and all P&IDs are linked to this database. This allows data to be shared across P&IDs, as well as across other design functions, and ensures data consistency for the whole project. Also, the external relational database environment enables AutoPLANT P&ID to create intelligent plant schematics, enabling engineers to learn more about their plant design in a fraction of the time required to study hundreds of layout drawings or 3D models.
• Scales for use on large or small projects – The AutoPLANT data architecture is designed to be scalable. Coupling with industry-standard relational databases, AutoPLANT P&IDs will be productive on both large and small projects. AutoPLANT P&ID supports Microsoft Access and MSDE (Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine) for smaller projects and Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle for larger projects.
• Includes international standard symbol libraries – AutoPLANT P&ID comes with ISO and DIN standard symbol libraries. The definition of the industry standard (including line styles) is part of the project-creation process, ensuring all P&IDs are drawn to the same standard across the whole project.
• Allows teams to work in distributed environment with subcontractors – AutoPLANT P&ID is a proven product that has been used on hundreds of real-world projects and produced thousands of P&IDs. Examples of current users include Colt Engineering, ConocoPhillips, Intel, Petro-Canada, SNC-Lavalin, Southern Company, VECO, and many others. Featuring the ability to be used in a stand-alone environment and utilizing the Bentley “Split/Merge Project” capabilities, AutoPLANT P&ID allows fully distributed workforces to collaborate on the project.
Users of Bentley’s AutoPLANT product line who are also subscribers under Bentley’s SELECT Program agreement will receive AutoPLANT P&ID v8.9.3 free of charge. For more information about AutoPLANT, please visit http://www.bentley.com/AutoPLANT+PIDor contact Bentley by phone in the United States at +1-800-BENTLEY or outside the U.S. at +1-610-458-5000.
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Camstar Delivers Comprehensive Electronics Suite 29 August 2007
Camstar Systems, Inc announced the release of its Electronics Suite™ solution. With Electronics Suite, Camstar has responded to industry-specific requirements for high complexity manufacturing processes, complete traceability, and high-volume transactions in electronics manufacturing. Customers like Hitachi Electronic Components (LCD display components), Hitachi Global Storage (hard disk drives), Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Hutchinson Technology, and EPIC Technologies are already reaping the benefits of Camstar’s InSite and the Electronics Suite.
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Leading Electronics manufacturers provided input to ensure that the solution brings optimal value to manufacturers who are challenged by growing demand for customization, rapid business and technology changes, shorter product life cycles, and increased product complexities. Visibility and control are critical for the effective management of precious capacity, new product introductions, and quality standards across the enterprise. Early adopters have seen significant benefits such as high throughput velocity, increased control over dynamic and complex processes, and higher precision and quality. Powered by Camstar’s Enterprise Manufacturing Execution and Quality System, Electronics Suite helps manufacturers adapt quickly to change in demand and configurations, accelerate time to market, and ensure consistent product quality across all plants. It includes work in process (WIP) tracking, detailed process modeling, electronic work procedures, serialized forward and reverse component traceability, failure analysis, rework management, maintenance management, operator certification, dispatch management, and more. Electronics Suite is powerful enough to handle high transaction volumes, and is flexible enough to meet each site’s specific needs. It easily integrates with enterprise business systems and the shop floor, and is designed for rapid deployment without complex customization. Electronics Suite is built for global operations, with inherent multilingual capabilities. “Camstar’s Electronics Suite enables customers to take advantage of ‘best practices’ of the leading electronic manufacturers,” said Scott Toney, President and CEO of Camstar. “It offers the most out-of-the-box functionality and a high level of configurability, resulting in rapid deployment and ease of integration. Top electronics manufacturers have already recognized Camstar’s commitment to the industry.”
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Conformia Development Operations Management Named SAP-Endorsed Business Solution August 27, 2007
Conformia, the market leader and innovator of enterprise solutions for product/process lifecycle management (PPLM) for regulated process manufacturing industries, today announced that its Development Operations Management Solution (DevOps)—a combination of the Conformia Scale Up Management System (SUMS) and Product Conformance Management (PCM) platform, both of which have achieved "Powered by SAP NetWeaver®" status—is now an SAP-endorsed business solution. SAP's endorsement marks the culmination of an extensive solution specification, development and testing process by SAP AG. As a result, Conformia's solution is now integrated with SAP® solutions at the platform, application and business scenario levels. The solution builds a bridge between the development and manufacturing functions of product operations in regulated process industries such as life sciences and beverage alcohol.
The solution will allow customers to leverage their investments in solutions from both SAP and Conformia and seamlessly cross the chasm between development and compliant Commercial Manufacturing Operations through a new comprehensive suite of integrated modules.
"Conformia's solution is one of the first commercial-grade solutions for connecting development and manufacturing in the process industries," said Joe Prang, president and CEO, Conformia. "The result of our relationship with SAP is a unique and valuable offering for those in heavily regulated process-manufacturing industries who want to maximize their existing investments in SAP applications and continue to build a master data strategy to support the product/process lifecycle." SAP-endorsed business solutions are complementary to SAP software offerings, are developed in
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accordance with SAP development guidelines, and provide additional choices and flexibility for businesses running SAP applications. As part of the agreement, Conformia and SAP will provide development resources, and exchange and share technology and product roadmaps, as well as market the Conformia Development Operations Management Solution.
Development Operations (DevOps) Platform Provides Integrated PPLM Environment Conformia DevOps is the foundation for the company's full line of integrated application modules—recipe, batch record, material, equipment and environmental management—designed to support all development operations across the entire product/process lifecycle. Offered in preconfigured application suites designed to manage product operations in chemical, biological, drug product, and alcoholic beverage areas, the Conformia platform and applications enable companies to manage their day-to-day product and process operations, integrate process knowledge data for regulatory submissions, improve technology transfer to commercial manufacturing, increase product quality, and reduce the time and expense associated with getting new products approved and into the market. The challenges of accessing and leveraging information from fragmented and unreliable process systems costs regulated process companies millions of dollars annually, and have the potential to put companies and consumers at risk. Conformia DevOps enables a new level of visibility and traceability across the entire product/process development lifecycle by aggregating and centralizing information, thus allowing greater access, continuity and collaboration across global/distributed operations. The platform and embedded applications provide integration of product and process data across functions, sites, development stages, business processes, products, and more.
SAP-Endorsed Business Solutions -- Linking Development Operations and Commercial Operations By connecting Conformia DevOps with applications such as SAP ERP, the worlds of development and manufacturing are being connected. Key aspects of this solution that are included in the SAP-endorsed business solution are integrated business scenarios that allow users to seamlessly move from a business scenario (process) in the Conformia system to SAP applications and vice versa. Some of the business scenarios include the following:
• Using the order management capabilities of SAP ERP to requisition, deliver and invoice all transactions for development materials
• Linking the commercial materials supply chain back into the development materials supply chain
• Transferring information about new products coming from development into commercial operations The benefits of this integrated solution include the ability to leverage the corporate supply chain to reduce development time and costs, better access and visibility into the procurement process, reduced inventory corporate-wide, reduced risk of clinical supply availability shortages, etc. "Endorsing solutions such as Development Operations Management from our co-innovation partners like Conformia serves to bolster the SAP for Life Sciences solution roadmap and enables us to provide measurable value by delivering a 'whole solution' to our customers," said Jim Sabogal, vice president and global head of SAP's Life Sciences Industry Business Unit. "The use of Conformia Development Operations Management with SAP solutions will enable our bio-pharma customers to bridge the disconnect between development and commercial manufacturing operations, improve employee productivity and accelerate innovative products to market, while lowering the total cost of ownership."
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Built on an enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) and adhering to J2EE standards, Conformia DevOps seamlessly integrates with SAP applications including the SAP NetWeaver platform, SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure (SAP NetWeaver XI) and SAP NetWeaver Portal. Earlier this year, the SAP NetWeaver Fund made a minority investment in Conformia Software. The SAP NetWeaver Fund was established in May 2006, focusing on strategic investments in select companies that are committed to the SAP ecosystem and are building innovative solutions based on the SAP NetWeaver platform.
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CONTACT Software and IDS Scheer Agree Upon Partnership in the Area of Product Lifecycle Management 24 July 2007
CONTACT Software, focussed on PDM/PLM solutions, and IDS Scheer, a provider of software and consultation for business process management, cooperate on Product Lifecycle management (PLM). The partnership aims to support discrete manufacturers and automotive suppliers in defining and implementing a PLM strategy. This includes strategic consulting, requirements management and specification work, system implementation and change management. The co-operation focuses on discrete manufacturers and automotive suppliers. Topics such as Compliance, Distributed Product Development, Multi CAD environments or Project Management mean significant challenges for such companies. At the same time theses topics offer great potential to stay ahead of the worldwide competition by means of reduced time-to-market and higher process reliability. The combination of excellent Best Practice know-how with CIM DATABASE as a leading solution platform helps customers to efficiently convert innovative ideas into outstanding products.
"CONTACT´s PLM solutions and services are an optimal complement to our own product range of strategic and business process consulting services", says Stephan Kuka, Manager Business Development Automotive at IDS Scheer. "Co-operation with customers and suppliers places very complex requirements on data and process management, which are very well covered by the CIM DATABASE platform. On top of that, CDB features powerful tools e.g., for collaborative project management, CAD data exchange and the synchronisation with ERP systems such as SAP."
"IDS Scheer distinguishes long-standing, excellent know-how in the evaluation and optimization of business processes, and has gained excellent reputation particularly in the SAP® domain with its ARIS Platform" states Karl Heinz Zachries, managing director of CONTACT. "The partnership allows us to offer our customers the complete range from strategy and business process consulting up to actual Product Lifecycle Management solutions."
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Engineous Launches Component Central Website August 28, 2007
Engineous Software, provider of award-winning integration, automation, and design optimization software and related services, today announced the launch of "Component Central" (http://components.engineous.com/)—a new website that distributes componentized engineering applications that are compatible with the iSIGHT-FD and FIPER products.
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"Drag and drop components are the building blocks of our open process integration software," said Dr. Alex Van der Velden, VP of Engineering for Engineous Software. "We are inviting companies with leading edge simulation & optimization technology to join our component development program. Because of strong demand, we already rolled out 40 components during the beta phase of the Component Central website, including CATIA, Unigraphics, Ansys, Nastran, Abaqus, Adams, LS-DYNA, STAR-CCM+, as well as many others.” Engineous makes component development easy by providing tool kits and development support. "Using both the interface toolkit classes provided by Engineous Software, Inc., and the Java COM Bridge classes, it only took us a couple of days to create the ITI SimulationX component," said Dr. Andreas Uhlig, Managing Director of ITI. “Furthermore, our customers have been very pleased with this product.” Please contact Dr. Alex van der Velden (mailto:[email protected]) to get more information about the program.
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New Kit from Cadence Cuts Risk and Time for Adopting Functional Verification Methodology 27 August 2007
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced the industry's most comprehensive commercially available verification kit for wireless and consumer system-on-chip (SoC) design, enabling engineers to adopt advanced verification techniques with reduced risk and deployment effort and meet time-to-market requirements. The Cadence® SoC Functional Verification Kit provides a proven end-to-end methodology that extends from block-level verification to chip- and system- level advanced verification and includes automated methodologies for implementation and management. The kit provides complete example verification plans, transaction-level and cycle-accurate models, design and verification IP, scripts and libraries—all proven on a wireless segment representative design and delivered through applicability consulting.
"The Cadence SoC Functional Verification Kit is just what is needed for today's feature rich SOC designs," said Chang-Soo Kim, CTO at Kairos Logic Co., Ltd. "In working with the kit, we can see the tremendous time savings the kit provides with its pre-build verification environment, IP and working examples. We believe the delivery mechanism using verification experts is a fantastic way to ensure risk reduction through deep comprehension of the Incisive Plan to Closure coverage driven methodology."
The new kit from Cadence addresses key challenges engineers face when designing and verifying SoC designs: ensuring comprehensive verification of the design, enabling re-use, managing low-power modes typical in today's SoCs, ensuring hardware-dependent software coverage, and accomplishing the verification within very stringent time-to-market timelines.
"Functional verification of SoC designs is one of the most difficult and time-consuming challenges our semiconductor and systems partners face today," said Graham Budd, executive vice president and general manager of the Processor Division at ARM. "Through the kits initiative and ARM collaboration, the Cadence SoC Functional Verification Kit directly addresses these challenges and helps our mutual customers get their products to market more efficiently." The applicability consulting included with the kit provides complete and interactive guidance for performing predictable and repeatable verification of blocks, clusters, full chips, and SoCs, and enables
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design teams to quickly and easily adopt the Cadence Incisive® Plan-to-Closure Methodology. The SoC Functional Verification Kit includes design and verification IP from Cadence and third parties, including an accurate high-speed model of the ARM968E-S™ processor, AMBA® PrimeCell IP® including interconnect and peripherals, and the ARM® RealView® Development Suite debugger, USB 2.0 from ChipIdea, and 802.11 from WiPro. The kit includes three main flows: architectural, RTL block to chip, and system-level. Users can implement the entire kit as an integrated flow, or may select flows individually. Also included are 13 workshop modules and over 40 hands-on labs which engineers can use to incrementally improve their verification productivity. "With today's wireless and consumer chip designs becoming increasingly complex, design teams are under growing pressure to apply more effective verification methods and technology," said Moshe Gavrielov, executive vice president and general manager, Cadence Verification Division. "The SoC Functional Verification Kit delivers a solution spanning the full verification process to ease adoption of advanced verification capabilities for design and verification teams." The Cadence Incisive Plan-to-Closure Methodology will support the Open Verification Methodology or OVM in Q4 this year. The OVM is based on Cadence's Incisive Plan-to-Closure URM module and Mentor's Advanced Verification Methodology module. The new SoC Functional Verification Kit will be featured at the CDNLive! Silicon Valley technical conference, scheduled for Sept. 10 to 12, in San Jose, Calif. More information on the conference can be found at http://www.cadence.com/cdnlive/na.
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SAP Showcases Value and Process Innovation for Real Estate Management August 28, 2007
SAP AG today announced accelerated customer adoption and innovative new processes for SAP® Real Estate Management, a full-featured application for managing all types of real estate. Companies in 40 countries across more than 20 industries—including Copenhagen Airports; Forest City Enterprises, a U.S.-based real estate company; Halliburton, a provider of products and services to the energy industry and NATS, the United Kingdom's leading provider of air traffic management—use the application to gain better control and analysis of their real estate portfolios.
SAP customers will demonstrate the benefits they are gaining from the deployment of the application at the International SAP Real Estate Management Conference in Barcelona, Spain, September 17 - 19 and the Americas' SAP Real Estate Management Conference in Chicago, Illinois, October 16 - 18. At the conferences, SAP experts, partners and customers will discuss and demonstrate how SAP Real Estate Management helps corporate, commercial and public real estate managers to achieve transparency, streamline their business processes and support investment strategies.
SAP Real Estate Management is part of the SAP® ERP application and supports all phases of the life cycle of real estate assets, including the acquisition or disposal of real estate, management of the real estate portfolio, property and technical management, as well as management accounting and reporting. Recently, SAP announced the availability of the second enhancement package for SAP ERP which includes innovations in SAP Real Estate Management (see July 31, 2007 press release titled, "SAP Furthers Its Leadership of the Business Applications Market by Delivering a New Wave of Innovations for SAP® ERP"). This new functionality supports additional corporate real estate scenarios such as
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simplified management of space, rooms, moves and service charge settlements, as well as improved support for lease management in multiple currencies. For further information on SAP Real Estate Management Conferences, please visit:
• International SAP Real Estate Management Conference: http://www.sap.com/company/events/search/overview/index.epx?EventID=3571
• Americas' SAP Real Estate Management Conference: http://www.sap.com/company/events/search/overview/index.epx?EventID=3851
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Share-A-space™ Extended with Support for PLM Services 2.0 August 28, 2007.
The Share-A-space™ Web Services offer is extended with support for PLM Services 2.0 from OMG. Thereby, Share-A-space™ will support both the OASIS PLCS PLM Services and OMG PLM Services 2.0. SOA, Service Oriented Architecture, has rapidly become the preferred way of software application integration in large and medium sized enterprises. A key factor for successful SOA implementations is building them on a foundation of efficient and internationally recognized standards. One such important standard in the PLM area is OMG PLM Services, specified and developed by the global automotive industry to support efficient collaboration in the product development area. By extending the already comprehensive information hub technology in Share-A-space™ with PLM Services 2.0, an important step is taken to successfully link information in the design engineering domain to in-service information in a new and unique way using the cross information domain consolidation mechanisms within Share-A-space™. Besides bridging different domains Share-A-space™ provides an obvious common ground as integration solution in many industries such as automotive, aerospace and defence as well as high tech electronics. Support for the OMG PLM Services will be introduced in Share-A-space™ 6.0 scheduled for release in Q1 2008 with limited support already available during the fall of 2007. Dr Mattias Johansson, Director Software Products at Eurostep is very pleased and says: “Eurostep is unique in supporting Web Services defined both by OASIS and OMG. This extention is yet another step to accommodate and simplify information management for PLM professionals. With the release of PLM Services 2.0 the standard has reached a maturity level where support in Share-A-spaceTM, the leading PLM hub software, is a logical step”, ends Dr Johansson.
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Synopsys and SMIC Jointly Address China Mobile TV Market with Low Power Design Solution 29 August 2007
Synopsys, Inc. and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) jointly announced today at IC China 2007 a strategic alliance to develop a low power design solution optimized for the mobile TV market in China, while also providing key IP components.
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The low power design solution based on 130nm and 90nm fab processes will be designed to help resolve problems in power design. In addition, the companies will provide key IP required by mobile TV IC designers, including AD, DA, PLL, USB, SATA and IEEE 1394. "It's our great honour to form this strategic alliance with SMIC to support Chinese chip manufacturers and the development of the digital TV market. The combination of SMIC's 130/90nm process, complete IP library and design service team with Synopsys' powerful IP and design platform will boost the current market," said Chen Zhikuan, President and COO of Synopsys. Their co-operation also calls for the provision of industry leading design and counseling service to help Chinese chip manufacturers take timely advantage of opportunities in the mobile TV market. As the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games are drawing near, more fabless and design companies are targeting the digital TV market, and the research and development of relevant chips are advancing at an unprecedented speed. However, there is currently no uniform standard in low power design, IP access barrier and foundry access for local manufacturers in the mobile TV market in China, making it tough when they want to compete in the market. "Synopsys has a leading technology advantage in IP and low power design. I believe our cooperation will promote the development of China's digital TV sector's standards and marketplace," said Richard Chang, President and Chief Executive Officer of SMIC. Since its entry into Chinese market in 1995, Synopsys has followed the "mission" of "industry promotion, client success and self-development" and has been dedicated to accelerating the development of China's IC design industry. To date, Synopsys has set up offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hong Kong, as well as R&D centers in Shanghai and Beijing, and a technology support center in Shanghai. Synopsys not only promotes EDA in China but also provides custom-tailor solution and professional counseling service with value creation as its direction. Visit Synopsys online at http://www.synopsys.com.
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UGS PLM Software Announces New Releases for its D-Cubed 2D Component Software Solutions 31 August 2007
UGS PLM Software, a division of Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D), announced the immediate availability of new releases of two of its D-Cubed™ component software products. Version 52.0 of 2D Dimensional Constraint Manager (2D DCM) and Profile Geometry Manager (PGM) contain new enhancements to improve function and performance.
Detailed descriptions of the enhancements are available online at: http://www.ugs.com/products/open/d-cubed/latest_releases.shtml.
About UGS PLM Components; Parasolid and D-Cubed
UGS PLM Components are software tools that can help increase the profitability of software applications in the CAD, CAM, CAE and PLM marketplace by raising their value and lowering their costs. This is achieved by supporting innovation and interoperability with standard tools that ensure quality and reduce time to market. UGS PLM Software develops these components, uses them throughout its own applications and licenses them to independent software vendors and end-user organizations. Flexible licensing arrangements and a simple integration process enable any organisation,
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large or small, to bring innovative capabilities to their applications quickly and economically. Part of the UGS PLM Components family of products, the Parasolid® and D-Cubed components provide 3D part and assembly modeling, editing and interoperability, 2D/3D parametric sketching, motion simulation, collision detection, clearance measurement and visualization. Applications include mechanical CAD, CAM, CAE, mold design, sheet metal, AEC, GIS, structural, plant and ship design, CMM, reverse engineering and sales configuration. For more information, please visit http://www.ugs.com/products/open/
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UGS PLM Software Ships Velocity Series’ Solid Edge Version 20 29 August 2007
UGS PLM Software, a division of Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D), announced that Version 20 of UGS Solid Edge™ software is shipping to customers worldwide. UGS PLM Software is shipping the English version of UGS Solid Edge Version 20 and will ship nine additional languages throughout the coming 10 weeks.
UGS Solid Edge software is a powerful hybrid 2D/3D design system and a core component of the UGS Velocity Series™ portfolio that enables manufacturing companies to achieve competitive advantage through cost reduction while increasing top-line revenues.
“It’s what I’ll call an ‘industrial strength’ 3D MCAD application,” said Jeff Rowe, editor, MCADCafe. "Solid Edge V20 has more of a mechanical engineering ‘feel,’ and Goal Seeking is a good example of this. Solid Edge V20, at least from outward appearances, seems like a good release for those that deal with big assemblies.”
Solid Edge V20 features more than 170 enhancements, including:
• Plant equipment and massive assembly design through zones, component replication and drawing review mode.
• Design collaboration to support PLM across the value chain through new service-oriented architecture (SOA) architecture, structure editor and assembly auto-constrain.
• Productivity improvements through Goal Seeking and tabulated drawings. For more information, visit http://www.solidedge.com/v20.
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