Press reports May 2001 deal with EDM/PDM
Needham, MA, May 30, 2001
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PTC (NASDAQ: PMTC), the product development company™,
today announced that Marconi Commerce Systems has selected
PTC's Windchill for its project collaboration solution.
Marconi Commerce, one of the world's largest manufacturers
of retail petroleum and site management systems, will
use Windchill software and services to automate change
processes and enable effective global collaboration among
the company's design, manufacturing, service and procurement
departments, as well as customers and suppliers. The software
was shipped during PTC's first fiscal quarter (ended December
30, 2000).
http://www.ptc.com
Orlando, FL, May 30, 2001
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SDRC (Nasdaq: SDRC) today announced at its Collaborative
Product Management Symposium in Orlando, Florida, SDRC
TeamCenter™, the industry's first suite of
collaborative product management solutions. eamCenter
is uniquely product-centric, enabling virtual enterprises
- comprised of dispersed knowledge users and diverse application
systems - to collaborate on the planning, development,
and support of products.
TeamCenter is built on an open, Internet-standards based,
web-native environment, and it is the only solution that
unites all of the critical technologies essential for
collaboratively managing all aspects of the products,
including: requirements, designs, configurations, documents,
and related business information. The integration of these
technology components enables TeamCenter to deliver solution
value never before possible, enabling global manufacturers
to bring new products to market faster, with better quality
and less cost.
http://www.sdrc.com
Lexington, Mass., May 30, 2001
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Workgroup Technology Corporation (WTC) (Nasdaq: WKGP),
a leading provider of collaborative product data management
(PDM) software solutions, announced that WTC's ProductCenter™
PDM solution was successfully eployed at Xandex, Inc.,
a recognized industry leader of DieMark inking systems
and prober-tester interface products for the semiconductor
industry. ProductCenter was implemented at Xandex's corporate
facility in Petaluma, California in support of its worldwide
operations by WTC value-added reseller and SolidWorks®
authorized training and support center partner, GEI technology,
inc.
http://www.workgroup.com
Cincinnati, Ohio and Belmont,
Calif., May 30, 2001 -
SDRC (Nasdaq: SDRC) and Asera Inc. today announced a multi-phase
strategic alliance to integrate SDRC's I-DEAS®
mechanical design automation and SDRC's TeamCenter™
collaborative product management solutions, including
specific functionality from Metaphase® and
Accelis™, with Asera's eBusiness Operating
System. The alliance will enable expanded collaborative
commerce across product design, configuration, order management,
supply chain management, and product service and support
addressing the needs of enterprises and private exchanges
in industries such as automotive, aerospace, high tech,
and industrial machinery. The two companies will be initiating
a combined go-to-market sales and marketing strategy targeting
key customers and prospects in these industries.
http://www.sdrc.com
Orlando, FL, May 30, 2001 -
SDRC (Nasdaq: SDRC) today announced at its Collaborative
Product Management Symposium that it has formed a co-marketing
alliance with i2 Technologies, Inc., the leading provider
of supply chain and marketplace solutions. The agreement
positions the two companies' software offerings as a complementary
collaborative product management solution. SDRC's new
TeamCenter™ products, in concert with the i2
Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) suite, will provide
an industry-leading web-centric environment that links
product development and strategic sourcing, enabling companies
to drive down their cost of product development, while
accelerating their ability to deliver both build-to-order
and engineer-to-order products.
http://www.sdrc.com
Plano, Texas, Milford, Ohio and
Cypress, California, May 23, 2001 -
EDS today announced an agreement to purchase Structural
Dynamics Research Corporation (SDRC) for approximately
$950 million in cash, or $25.00 a share.
Concurrent with the SDRC purchase, EDS will offer to buy
the 14 percent of its Unigraphics Solutions (UGS) subsidiary
that is publicly held. The offer to the shareholders of
UGS contemplates a price of $27.00 a share or total cash
of approximately about $170 million.
The two organizations have complementary product sets.
Together they provide the most comprehensive digitized
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software and services
in the industry. PLM offerings digitally produce and share
product planning, design, manufacturing and distribution
information for collaboration via local networks and the
Internet.
Both companies would be combined under the UGS name to
become EDS’ fifth line of business. Tony Affuso, current
UGS president and CEO, would become president of the new
line of business. UGS would be a leader in digitized PLM,
with more than $1 billion in annual revenues.
http://www.sdrc.com
Needham, MA, May 21, 2001
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PTC (NASDAQ: PMTC), the product development company™,
today announced that Intersil Corporation (Nasdaq: ISIL),
a leading provider of silicon technology for wireless
access and communications analog markets, will standardize
on PTC's Windchill solutions to enable more rapid development
and delivery of innovative communication products to both
existing and new markets. The software was shipped during
PTC's third fiscal quarter (ending June 30, 2001).
Intersil selected Windchill, PTC's Web-based collaboration
solution, in a competitive process after evaluating solutions
from several vendors. Windchill will be deployed to more
than 400 users in the initial phase. This process redefines
the way Intersil manages product information in the design
and manufacturing stages and allows for true collaboration
from all key participants in these processes.
http://www.ptc.com
Needham, MA, May 21, 2001 -
PTC (NASDAQ: PMTC), the product development company™,
today announced that Hynix Semiconductor Ltd. (formerly
Hyundai Electronics Ltd.) has chosen its Windchill product
collaboration software for its internal R&D center. Hynix
Semiconductor is a leading global supplier of semiconductors
including DRAM, SRAM, and Flash memories, and global semiconductor
foundry service company based in Korea.
http://www.ptc.com
Cypress, CA, May 18, 2001 -
UGS'(NYSE: UGS) a leading supplier of product development
and collaboration solutions to the manufacturing industry,
today announces that ITT Industries, Gilfillan Radar Systems
Group - a developer of state-of-the-art air defense, surveillance,
and radar systems - has signed a $700,000 contract for
the implementation of an advanced, fully integrated product
development and data management system. The contract includes
licenses of Unigraphics - UGS' high-end CAD/CAM/CAE software
suite, which replaces ITT Gilfillan's existing CAD software
from another leading supplier, as well as i-Man - the
company's collaborative product lifecycle management solution.
http://www.ugs.com
Cypress, CA, May 18, 2001
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Cunningham Motor Company - the celebrated American sports
car racing team of the 1950's - is using UGS'(NYSE: UGS)
collaborative product development software technology
to enable the implementation of a "virtual car company"
business model and the development of the first true American
Luxury GT car in nearly five decades. Using this novel
approach, Briggs Cunningham III, son of the company's
founder Briggs Cunningham Jr., and Bob Lutz, former Chrysler
executive, will attempt to return the Cunningham name
and legacy to the forefront of the world's automotive
stage by leveraging UGS' capabilities.
http://www.ugs.com
Cypress, CA, May 10, 2001 -
Fiat Auto, a company of Group Fiat and one of the European
leaders in the automotive industry, and UGS, a leading
supplier of software and services for collaborative product
development, have signed a 5-year agreement under which
UGS will implement its comprehensive engineering technologies
not only within Fiat Auto and Power Train, but also across
the automaker's entire supply chain.
The agreement includes 500 seats of Unigraphics, UGS'
integrated CAD/CAM/CAE application, to be used for digital
product development, simulation and validation, 600 licenses
of software from UGS' EAI division for Web-based visualization
and collaboration in the design and manufacturing stages,
and 1,500 licenses of i-Man, UGS' Internet-centric product
life cycle management system. UGS' i-Man application will
unify the management of product lifecycle and production
process information by integrating the information currently
resident in the variety of PDM (product data management)
systems used by different Fiat departments.
http://www.ugs.com
Chelmsford, MA,
May 14, 2001 -
MatrixOne, Inc. (NASDAQ:MONE), the first in Intelligent
Collaborative Commerce™, today announced that CAE Northwest,
Inc., formerly Personal Workstations, has been selected
to be a reseller of MatrixOne's collaboration technology
solutions to middle market companies in northwestern North
America in the areas of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana,
British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Yukon.
http://www.matrixOne.com
Orange, CA and Chelmsford,
MA, May 14, 2001 -
MXintegrations, a business unit of The van der Roest Group,
Inc., today announced the availability of a high-value
enterprise application integration (EAI) with MatrixOne's
® eMatrix™ 9 Intelligent Collaborative Commerce™ framework
for users of Telelogic's DOORS®. eMatrix Integration for
DOORS Version 1.0 provides requirements management capabilities
to eMatrix for discrete manufacturing applications.
http://www.matrixOne.com
Cypress, CA, May 10, 2001
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CIMdata, a worldwide strategic consulting and research
organization, reporting on its recent industry conference
held in Palm Springs, California, stated that General
Motors Corporation is expected to double its design productivity
and increase product development workflow by 70 percent,
thanks to a collaborative product development system being
built around UGS' (NYSE:UGS) i-Man product lifecycle management
solution.
http://www.ugs.com
Karlsruhe, May 08, 2001
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Eigner+Partner, an international web-based e-Engineering
software provider, and MAGNA STEYR ENGINEERING, a global
automotive supplier, have recently signed a cooperative
agreement to address the specific automotive industry
requirements with axalant - automotive.
This agreement leverages EIGNER + PARNTER’s long standing
experience in the international PDM market, as well as
MAGNA STEYR ENGINEERING’s internationally recognized competence
in all areas of automotive engineering. Key areas of the
venture include workflow, change management, engineering
collaboration and weight management.
http://www.ep-ag.com
Cincinnati, May 08, 2001 -
SDRC (Nasdaq: SDRC) today announced that BAE SYSTEMS Avionics,
a defense electronics manufacturer, is migrating 4,400
users at its ten U.K. sites from Sherpa to SDRC's Metaphase®
Express Aerospace & Defense solution.
The program to replace the current Sherpa installation
is viewed not only as a tool migration program but also
as a platform for Process Improvement. The solution will
integrate the data across the Avionics' preferred tools
and will support the core Configuration and the entire
Product Life-Cycle process.
http://www.sdrc.com
Chelmsford, MA and
Fort Collins, CO, May 07, 2001 -
MatrixOne, Inc. (NASDAQ:MONE), the first in Intelligent
Collaborative Commerce™, and IntegWare, Inc., a provider
of software customization and implementation services
to Fortune 500 manufacturers, today announced an agreement
whereby IntegWare will provide system integration and
application development services to MatrixOne customers.
MatrixOne selected IntegWare for this alliance because
of the Company's deep domain expertise, integration products
and technical services in the specification and implementation
of collaborative product development (CPD) technology.
Datex-Ohmeda, the world's leading supplier of anesthesia
equipment and services, has already engaged IntegWare
to customize MatrixOne's eMatrix™ collaboration platform
and to integrate it with a host of legacy systems.
http://www.matrixOne.com
Anaheim (California,
USA) and Suresnes (France), April 3, 2001 -
IBM and Dassault Systemes (NASDAQ: DASTY; Euronext Paris:
#13065, DSY.PA) announced today major enhancements to
ENOVIA Portal Solutions Version 5 Release 6 (V5R6) and
ENOVIAVPM Version 1 Release 4 (V1R4), and the introduction
of the next generation of ENOVIA Life Cycle Applications
(LCA) V5R6. With these additions ENOVIA Solutions provide
the most comprehensive collaborative Product Lifecycle
Management (PLM) capabilities in the industry, enabling
companies to implement and deploy best practices for innovation
in an open, knowledge-based environment that links companies,
their customers and their suppliers.
Enhancements to ENOVIA Portal Solutions include nine new
products that promote Web-centric 3d e-business collaboration,
innovation and decisionmaking. The Portal’s powerful application
and data federation capabilities enable users to connect
heterogeneous and complex IT environments. ENOVIA Portal
V5R6 provides new scientific knowledge applications and
content, driving greater innovation during design. Its
enhanced 3D collaboration capabilities include human modeling
and simulation functions, and a virtual reality environment
for immersive review.
http://www.enovia.com
Needham, MA, Palo Alto, CA, May
01, 2001 -
In order to accelerate manufacturers' product development
cycles and improve cross-company collaboration, Accenture,
PTC, and Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced
that they are working together to provide clients with
comprehensive collaborative product commerce (CPC) solutions.
Designed to help companies leverage the Internet, the
joint CPC solution helps remove the traditional barriers
between companies, organizations and business systems
by allowing key partners, suppliers, customers and internal
production teams to work in concert through all phases
of a product's lifecycle. This solution leverages Accenture's
deep experience in delivering successful CPC implementations,
PTC's Windchill software, and Sun's Network Computing
Solutions and iForce(SM) solution approach.
http://www.ptc.com
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