| Westford, Mass. – September 7,
2004 – MatrixOne, Inc. (NASDAQ: MONE), a leading provider
of collaborative product lifecycle management (PLM)
solutions for the value chainTM, today announced that
NCR Corporation is standardizing on MatrixOne's (NASDAQ:
MONE) product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions.
NCR selected MatrixOne in order to leverage the success
they have already established with MatrixOne products
since 1996.
Representing another key win for MatrixOne in the
global electronics market, NCR will leverage MatrixOne's
PLM environment to support the company's extensive
product management, global design, and manufacturing
partnerships. This worldwide value chain is composed
of more than 2,000 internal and external users responsible
for designing and manufacturing NCR's technology solutions,
such as leading-edge automated teller machines, point-of-sale
systems and self-service kiosks.
NCR PLM and MatrixOne
NCR has a 120-year legacy of delivering technology
to companies that allow them to better serve and retain
their customers. To keep pace within its worldwide
markets, NCR has turned to a global product development
system that leverages talent and relies on collaboration
with manufacturing partners in several markets.
MatrixOne's PLM environment will provide a secure,
collaborative product development environment across
NCR's global operations that will allow them to increase
efficiencies in bringing new products to market and
to help ensure they are driving the right products
into its globally dispersed new product development
processes. The MatrixOne PLM backbone will provide
a single repository that drives the global enterprise
business process, helping NCR to compress the time
required throughout the continuum between customer
needs, product requirements, product architecture
and solution creation.
"NCR's product development and engineering strategies
revolve around an ability to capture synergies across
all of our business units, so we can share common
parts, platforms and software components among our
families of products, while utilizing globally dispersed
development and manufacturing teams," said Bob Tramontano,
vice president of NCR's Financial Solutions Division.
"MatrixOne allows us to leverage existing efficiencies
and discover new ones wherever possible by creating
a single, unified repository for worldwide product
lifecycle management."
"NCR represents another milestone for MatrixOne
as we increase our presence in electronics-intensive
industries," said Mark F. O'Connell, president and
CEO, MatrixOne. "By using MatrixOne as the backbone
of their global product development, NCR will recognize
significant savings and improve their ability to serve
their customers."
About MatrixOne
MatrixOne, Inc. (NASDAQ: MONE) is a recognized leader
in delivering collaborative Product Lifecycle Management
(PLM) solutions. We provide flexible solutions that
unleash the creative power of global value chains
to inspire innovations and speed them to market. MatrixOne's
customers include global leaders in the aerospace
and defense, automotive, consumer products, high technology,
life sciences, machinery, and the process industries,
including Agilent Technologies, General Electric,
Honda, Johnson Controls, Philips, Procter & Gamble,
Siemens, and Toshiba. MatrixOne (http://www.matrixone.com/)
is headquartered in Westford, Massachusetts with locations
throughout North America, Europe, and Asia/Pacific.
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