Press Release
MSC.Software Accepted Into the IBM SOA Specialty
SANTA ANA, Calif. - September 4, 2007 - MSC.Software (NASDAQ: MSCS), a leading global provider of enterprise simulation solutions including simulation software and services, today announced its acceptance to the IBM SOA Specialty after successfully completing IBM's rigorous SOA technical and business requirements. With this achievement, MSC.Software's SimManager has also achieved SOA Connect status, ensuring that it fully integrates with the IBM software and strategy for SOA.
"SOA is an increasingly important business requirement for organizations because of the business flexibility it enables," said Sandy Carter, Vice President of IBM SOA and WebSphere. "MSC.Software's commitment to SOA provides their customers with a powerful way to reduce integration costs."
MSC.Software's SimManager is designed to bring critical simulation information to thousands of users at the lowest possible total cost of ownership (TCO). Compliance with SOA standards enables SimManager to seamlessly link to all SOA-compliant data sources and applications and allows simulation data to be easily integrated into engineering business processes. SimManager uses SOA-based web services to capture transactions from key operational systems and utilizes XML standards to process data and metadata.
"Working with IBM for SOA helps us provide open, flexible enterprise business infrastructure that will enable us to deliver our solutions to customers with reliability and efficiency," said Bill Weyand, chief executive officer of MSC.Software.
More information regarding MSC.Software or SimManager please visit: www.mscsoftware.com.
About SimManager
SimManager is an enterprise-level software product that allows global businesses to leverage their engineering processes throughout the enterprise to greatly speed design and development. Providing functionality that allows organizations to efficiently create, manage and re-use simulation data, SimManager enables companies to control, share and extend engineering data and the processes related to their products both internally and externally into the supply chain. Using SimManager, companies can easily maximize value of their most critical intellectual property, including simulation processes, by capturing knowledge that is dispersed throughout the enterprise, analyzing and automating processes, and making it available throughout the supply chain.
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.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements, including all statements relating to the features, benefits, capabilities and performance of MSC.Software products. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to be materially different than expectations. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, changes in technology, the end-user computing and analysis environment, implementation and support that meet evolving customer requirements, general industry trends and the impact of competitive products.
Furthermore, information provided herein, which is not historical in nature, are forward-looking statements pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All such forward-looking statements are based largely on management's expectations and are subject to and qualified by risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. The Company undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statement to conform the statement to actual results or changes in the Company's expectations.
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| Contact: Jennifer Brannon Senior Manager, Public Relations MSC.Software (714) 445-3119 jennifer.brannon@mscsoftware.com |
