Press Release
Alenia Aeronautica Selects MSC.SimManager to Drive Enterprise Business Transformation
SANTA ANA, Calif. - April 3, 2007 - MSC.Software (NASDAQ: MSCS), the leading global provider of enterprise simulation solutions including simulation software and services, has announced that Alenia Aeronautica has selected its enterprise simulation management solution, SimManager to drive significant process transformation for the company's Alenia Networked Enterprise Transformation (ALENET) initiative.
ALENET is a multi-year business transformation initiative, designed to deliver benefits in standardization, streamlining, and innovation to Alenia companies, suppliers, partners, and customers worldwide. Promoting an extended and integrated vision of the PLM and simulation environment, the ALENET objectives focus on improving engineering lifecycle efficiency, and include strategies for the improved integration of suppliers and partners, harmonization of technologies and processes, and the capture, management, and sharing of inherent process and intellectual property enterprise-wide.
SimManager, a component of SimEnterprise, is MSC.Software's enterprise simulation data and process management solution, and has been selected as a key component to the ALENET project. The deployment of SimManager across the Alenia organization is central to the process for simulation / virtual test data management and process automation, establishing a standardized simulation and testing knowledge database, and helping to rationalize in-house and legacy technology onto a common integrated environment.
"Consistent with the ongoing transformation in the Aerospace & Defense sector, Alenia Aeronautica is undergoing radical changes in its core processes - a genuine business transformation to an extended virtual enterprise," saidAlessandro Franzoni, chief technical officer, Alenia Aeronautica. "SimManager enables consolidated standards for simulation technology and process, and creates an enterprise wide collaborative knowledge management engineering environment. This is a critical factor in driving the shift from vertical silos to a growing interdependence - a transverse approach to lifecycle integration that will positively impact top & bottom lines."
"We're leveraging our heritage in engineering analysis with the scalability of the embedded IBM products in SimManager to provide a better product for our enterprise customers and lead the enterprise simulation movement from isolated to integrated solutions", said Amir Mobayen, senior vice president, EMEA Operations, MSC.Software. "The ALENET project is an exciting example of how to harmonize, manage, and collaboratively extend engineering lifecycle processes across the enterprise including partners and suppliers and provides a strong testament to the value of the MSC.Software and IBM Alliance."
SimManager provides organizations with the ability to work more efficiently, react more quickly, and to differentiate themselves and their products from the competition," said Bill Weyand, chief executive officer, MSC.Software. "Alenia recognizes this innovation and has chosenMSC.Software as their enterprise simulation partner."
About SimManager
SimManager allows business to harness the sea of data produced in product development and save time and costs with easy management and integration of engineering data within the IT infrastructure. MSC.Software embeds and optimizes IBM technology, including DB2, WebSphere software and Tivoli, as a part of SimManager, pre-configuring and testing these technologies for ease of installation, rapid scalability and aligning smoothly with enterprise architecture strategies such as the adoption of an enterprise Service Oriented Architecture. The combination of IBM's technology, services and integration expertise along with SimManager's capabilities provides a complete solution stack for the management of simulation processes and product performance data, ensuring scalability for global deployments.
More information on SimManager and SimEnterprise can be found at www.mscsoftware.com or https://cpd-associates.com/download/index.cfm?download=simmanagermsc&company=
About MSC.Software Corporation
MSC.Software (NASDAQ: MSCS) is the global leader of enterprise simulation solutions that help companies make money, save time and reduce costs associated with designing and testing manufactured products. MSC.Software works with thousands of companies in hundreds of industries to develop better products faster by utilizing information technology, software, services and systems. MSC.Software employs more than 1100 people in 23 countries. For additional information about MSC.Software's products and services, please visit www.mscsoftware.com.
About Alenia Aeronautica
Alenia Aeronautica, a subsidiary of Finmeccanica, is one of the worlds leading aerospace organizations, with interests in the design and production and support of aircraft and aero-structures for a wide range of commercial and military applications. A key partner of the major aerospace groups, Alenia is involved with projects from Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Airbus, and BAE Systems, and is one of the military partner companies of the Eurofighter and Panavia Tornado consortia.
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