Press reports February 2001 deal with EDM/PDM
Ann Arbor, Michigan, February
28, 2001 -
According to figures released today from consulting and
research firm CIMdata, Inc., the worldwide collaborative
Product Definition management (cPDm) market grew 62% to
reach $2.86 billion in 2000. Investments in software jumped
to $1.23 billion, comprising 43% of the total market and
exceeding the growth rate for service revenue for the
first time in years.
http://www.cimdata.com
Cincinnati and Boston, February
27, 2001 -
SDRC (Nasdaq: SDRC) today announced, at the Daratech Summit
2001, that the company has received approximately $6 million
from a number of Metaphase orders received in January
and February, with several representing Sherpa conversion
customers, including Rockwell Automation, Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, and Perkin Elmer.
http://www.sdrc.com
Cincinnati and Boston,
February 26, 2001 -
EIGNER + PARTNER, a leading international supplier of
e-Engineering solutions, has laid the foundation for more
aggressive penetration in the substantial US market by
announcing the appointment of a new member of the management
board. The new member will attend to the company's North
American expansion.
Chairman of the Board Dr. Martin Eigner said, "We are
fully aware of the extraordinary importance of the American
market to our business. As a result, we have planned major
investments in the US Marketing, Distribution and Service
Divisions. They are critical for our continued growth
and the success of our eventual public offering."
http://www.ep-ag.com
Needham, Mass., February 26,
2001 -
PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC), the product development company, today
announced that it has reached an agreement with Zweave,
Inc., the first collaborative product commerce platform
for the apparel industry, to use PTC's software and implementation
services. The Windchill ProjectLink solution allows Zweave
to offer its fashion design clients quick and efficient
access to PTC's industry leading collaborative product
commerce solutions. The software was shipped during PTC's
second fiscal quarter (ending March 31, 2001).
http://www.ptc.com
Cincinnati and Boston,
February 26, 2001 -
SDRC (Nasdaq: SDRC) today announced, at the Daratech Summit
2001, I-DEAS Enterprise, an integration of SDRC's award-winning
I-DEAS mechanical design automation (MDA) products and
its market leading Metaphase product knowledge management
(PKM) technology. This new product enables scalable, enterprise-wide
design data management to support product development
teams that cross discipline, geographic, and company boundaries.
http://www.sdrc.com
Needham, Mass., February
26, 2001 -
In a move that transforms the dynamics of design project
collaboration, PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC ), the product development
company, today announced the availability of Windchill
ProjectLink. Windchill ProjectLink is a Web-based workspace
that advances the ability of geographically and organizationally
dispersed project teams to work on highly iterative design
projects. Windchill ProjectLink, based on Windchill release
6.0 technology, addresses the needs of a design project
team whether the project is hosted within a manufacturing
enterprise, in a private exchange, or in a public B2B
exchange. The solution empowers design teams to combine
forces, delivering innovative, high quality products to
market faster and at lower cost. Windchill ProjectLink
includes a flexible pricing model, an ASP hosted option,
and a quick-start implementation option that derives benefits
for discrete manufacturers in as little as two weeks.
http://www.ptc.com
Needham, Mass. and El Segundo
Calif., February 26, 2001 -
PTC (NASDAQ: PMTC), the product development company, and
Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC), global provider
of information technology (IT) consulting, systems integration
and outsourcing services, today announced they have expanded
their current alliance to help manufacturers and exchanges
take immediate advantage of the benefits of collaborative
product development in a hosted environment.
PTC has selected CSC as its first partner to host its
new Windchill ProjectLink solution. Windchill ProjectLink,
announced today by PTC, is a quick-start solution for
manufacturers and exchanges that drives product innovation
and decreases time-to-market through a Web-based virtual
workspace where project teams collaborate on product designs.
Offering Windchill ProjectLink in a hosted environment
further reduces the time and expense of in-house implementation,
making the solution more deployable and accessible by
enterprises, as well as private and public exchanges.
http://www.ptc.com
Needham, Mass., February 26, 2001
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PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC), the product development company, today
announced that it had entered into a binding memorandum
of understanding with Competitiveness to enter into a
license arrangement for PTC's Windchill ProjectLink solution.
Competitiveness is headquartered in Barcelona and offers
small-to medium-sized companies B2B solutions to increase
their competitiveness. The Windchill ProjectLink solution
will allow Competitiveness to offer its e-marketplace
users quick and efficient access to collaboration along
the development chain on a hosted platform.
http://www.ptc.com
Needham, Mass., February 26,
2001 -
PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC), the product development company, and
Agito, Inc. today announced a strategic partnership to
deliver collaborative product design and commerce services.
Agito will use PTC's Windchill ProjectLink solution to
add design collaboration tools to its FluidPowerHub commerce
engine, and engineered-to-order sales configurator applications..
Agito, Inc., headquartered in Chicago, provides commerce,
configuration, and design collaboration services for the
motion control and automation industry. Agito's flagship
product, FluidPowerHub (www.fluidpowerhub.com), is the
only B2B technology portal dedicated to enabling e-business
for the fluid power industry. FluidPowerHub is a robust
set of applications that technically integrates trading
partners, and drives efficiencies in the transactions
of standard, configured, and engineered-to-order products.
The Windchill ProjectLink solution equips FluidPowerHub
with the tools necessary to support manufacturers, distributors,
and OEMs in their efforts to collaboratively build customized
product solutions.
http://www.ptc.com
Needham, Mass., February
22, 2001 -
PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC), the product development company, today
announced it has received a $1 million order from Lockheed
Martin Aeronautics for Windchill software. The software
was purchased under the Integrated Management Framework
(IMF) Project; a Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Initiative
to provide a web based integrated program management capability
for its next generation aircraft programs. Production-level
implementation of PTC's Windchill software will begin
at Lockheed in April 2001, concluding with more than 1600
users for this phase of the IMF project. The software
was shipped in PTC's first fiscal quarter (ended December
30, 2000).
http://www.ptc.com
Cypress, Ca, February 21, 2001
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Driven by the manufacturing industry's growing demand
to leverage the Internet for significant improvements
in the processes of product development, manufacturing
and delivery, Unigraphics Solutions Inc. (NYSE: UGS),
today announces a newcorporate vision and strategy that
include a realignment of its greatly expanded software
and services offerings, along with a renewed focus on
open solutions and interoperability. To complement these
announcements, the company is changing its name to UGS
and unveiling a new corporate logo that highlights the
multiplying effect of its "Solution" and "Platform" technologies
that comprise collaboration.
http://www.ugsolutions.com
Cypress, Ca, February 21, 2001
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UGS (NYSE: UGS), a leader in product life cycle solutions
powering collaborative commerce, today announced a marketing
alliance with i2 Technologies, Inc., the leading provider
of supply chain and marketplace solutions. The alliance
is designed to integrate the two companies' software offerings
to create a collaborative product development platform.
The integrated solution will aim to link product development
and strategic sourcing activities and create a collaborative
platform for suppliers and partners. The goal of the alliance
is to drive down costs for developing, sourcing, manufacturing
and servicing products, while accelerating time-to-market.
http://www.ugsolutions.com
Cypress, Ca, February
21, 2001 -
UGS (NYSE: UGS), a leading supplier of software and services
to optimize the product lifecycle process, today announces
the formation of a new efactory business unit to focus
on solutions for 'virtual manufacturing'-- the ability
to collaboratively create, validate and communicate an
optimized manufacturing process plan. Built on an extended
and federated PDM infrastructure offering exceptional
scalability and collaboration, efactory establishes the
critical link between a company's product development,
manufacturing engineering and its supply chain.
http://www.ugsolutions.com
Cypress, Ca, February 21, 2001
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Underscoring its commitment to powering collaborative
commerce for the manufacturing industry, UGS (NYSE: UGS)
today announces the availability of e-vis connect, a new
solution for Internet-based visual collaboration between
manufacturers and their extended enterprises. e-vis connect
includes the deployment and integration services and software
needed for secure and efficient supply-chain collaboration
in a manufacturer's private B2B exchange.
http://www.ugsolutions.com
Chelmsford, Mass., February
20, 2001 -
MatrixOne (Nasdaq: MONE), the first in Intelligent Collaborative
Commerce, today announced that adidas-Salomon, a leading
company in the sports industry, has chosen MatrixOne's
eMatrix to provide a Web-based solution for collaborative
product content definition and manufacturing. This solution
will help extend adidas-Salomon's leading position in
the industry by improving the quality of product information
and speed to market, thereby improving top line growth
while reducing costs. This project will cover the entire
adidas-Salomon group.
http://www.matrixOne.com
St. Louis, Mo, February 13, 2001
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Unigraphics Solutions Inc. (NYSE: UGS), today announces
it has signed a software and services contract with Formula
1 Grand Prix motor racing team, British American Racing
(BAR). The agreement includes the supply and implementation
of licenses of Unigraphics -UGS' high-end, fully integrated
CAD/CAM/CAE software suite, iMAN - its internet-centric
product content management application, Solid Edge - the
company's powerful mechanical CAD solution and ProductVision
- UGS' advanced visualization and collaboration tool.
http://www.ugsolutions.com
Chelmsford, Mass.,
February 12, 2001 -
Teams are the structure that organizations depend on for
innovation. Today MatrixOne, Inc. (NASDAQ: MONE), the
first in Intelligent Collaborative Commerce™, announced
a new application called Team Central that creates collaborative
virtual workspaces for global project teams operating
in private and public net markets. The new application
supports the dynamic nature of project teams by providing
flexible, secure mechanisms to facilitate their information
exchange and collaboration, and by managing a team's structure
in real-time.
http://www.matrixOne.com
Cincinnati, February 8, 2001
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SDRC (Nasdaq: SDRC) today announced that the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL) has purchased I-DEAS, Metaphase, and
Accelis software for the Mars Exploration Rover project.
I-DEAS will be used in the design of the rovers, while
Metaphase and Accelis will migrate disperse legacy systems
to an enterprise standard laboratory wide, including interfacing
with suppliers. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, managed
for NASA by the California Institute of Technology, is
the lead U.S. center for robotic exploration of the solar
system.
Both Mars rovers, to be built, managed and operated by
JPL, currently are planned for launch from Cape Canaveral
Air Force Station, Florida. The missions are slated for
launch in the Spring of 2003 with arrival at Mars in early
2004.
http://www.sdrc.com
Cincinnati, February 6, 2001
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SDRC (Nasdaq: SDRC) today announced it is working more
closely with long-time industry partner, Sun Microsystems,
Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to help drive the adoption of Collaborative
Product Commerce (CPC) solutions within the discrete manufacturing
environment. SDRC and Sun intend to work together to showcase
solutions that aerospace and defense manufacturers can
utilize to adopt a CPC infrastructure. The two companies
are contributing engineering resources to ensure the products
are optimized to further drive performance and scalability
of their combined CPC solutions. As part of this effort,
plans are for SDRC's software suite of Metaphase, Accelis,
and its recently announced Metaphase Aerospace and Defense
Solution to be installed in Sun's iForce(SM) Ready Center
located in Menlo Park, Calif., and in the United Kingdom.
http://www.sdrc.com
Cincinnati, February 5,
2001 -
SDRC (Nasdaq: SDRC), today announced that Khrunichev State
Research and Production Space Center, Europe's leading
space launch services provider, has placed an order valued
at $1.4 million over 2 years in Metaphase product knowledge
management (PKM) software and services.
Khrunichev Space Center is implementing Metaphase to further
enable innovation and speed within their design, engineering,
manufacturing and configuration management processes.
http://www.sdrc.com
Rijswijk, The Netherlands,
January 06, 2001 -
Cyco Software, the leading provider of document management
software for the design and engineering environment, today
released a free 30-day fully-functional download of its
award-winning AutoManager View 3.2 software on http://www.cyco.com.
AutoManager View allows designers and others to to view,
compare, redline and print more than 225 file formats
including AutoCAD 2000i, Mechanical Desktop 5, MS Office
2000, Adobe Acrobot PDF, scanned images, hybrid files
and much more.
http://www.cyco.com
Chelmsford, Mass.,
February 02, 2001 -
MatrixOne, Inc. (NASDAQ: MONE), today announced that eMatrix
is the solution of choice for Intelligent Collaborative
Commerce at Aviointeriors S.p.A., Latina. Located near
Rome, Aviointeriors is the European leader in the manufacture
of interiors and seating for civil airplanes and train
coaches. This agreement was facilitated by Adage Srl,
a systems integrator specializing in the sale and support
of eMatrix solutions. The selection of MatrixOne's software
by Aviointeriors' IT directors came after careful and
exhaustive evaluation of competing products. eMatrix's
flexibility and legacy data integration capabilities were
winning advantages when held up against competing PDM/CPC
products.
The eMatrix platform implementation, enabling 100 users
to collaborate across the enterprise, began last October.
The first application, supporting EDM/PDM at Aviointeriors,
was deployed in the second half of December 2000. Other
eMatrix modules for Engineering Change Order Management
and Engineering Process Control are planned to follow.
http://www.matrixOne.com
Fort Collins, Colo.,
February 01, 2001 -
CoCreate Software, Inc. and MatrixOne, today announced
that, as part of a new alliance, they would integrate
certain complementary technologies that will enable companies
to capitalize on intellectual property created during
the product generation process.
MatrixOne products will provide the underlying business
process and enterprise integration infrastructure for
business-to-business collaboration, and CoCreate's OneSpace
engineering collaboration solution will enable real-time
communication sessions in a virtual conference room among
geographically disparate design teams.
http://www.matrixOne.com
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