Alliances, funding, acquisitions .... solutions
by Staff -- Manufacturing Business Technology, 11/1/2004 7:00:00 AM
Aspen Technology and Microsoft will integrate AspenTech's aspenONE solutions for enterprise operations management—or EOM—with Microsoft's SharePoint Portal Server, BizTalk Server, SQL Server Analysis Services, and SQL Server Reporting Services. AspenTech calls EOM an emerging technology that bridges the gap between corporate financial, historical, and transactional (ERP) systems; and the control systems (DCS/PLC) that manage plant processes.
Meanwhile, plant-centric vendor Honeywell will acquire AspenTech's HYSYS modeling software and Operator Training Simulation (OTS) business to extend Honeywell's Experion Process Knowledge System by means of the ability to gather data throughout the plant and couple it with domain knowledge embedded in HYSYS models and advanced solutions. Honeywell also expects to enhance its Shadow Plant simulation tools using OTS.
Enterprise planning & performance management vendor Steelwedge recently landed an equity investment of $4 million from Sigma Partners and Globespan Capital Partners. Steelwedge solutions enable demand-driven business planning. The company also recently named Timothy Campbell president and CEO. Campbell is former CEO of supply chain execution vendor Industri-Matematik. There he led the company's turnaround from 20 successive quarters of losses to four consecutive profitable quarters.
Extending a global security alliance, IBM Tivoli software is being integrated with Cisco Systems' Networks' Admission Control technologies to help enterprises comply with security policies, then quarantine and remediate at-risk computing devices—including laptops, desktops, and wireless devices. In other business for IBM, it completed its buy of enterprise content management vendor Venetica. Venetica's solutions allow accessing unstructured information—business documents, still images, digital media, and Web pages—and integrating it with business processes. IBM will integrate the solutions with its DB2 products.
Agile Software and i2 Technologies are enabling access to i2 materials and parts content across Agile's product life-cycle management (PLM) solution. Tim Minahan of Boston-based Aberdeen Group says connectivity to i2's electronics database should be especially attractive to Agile's numerous electronics, high-tech, and medical device users that need access to critical parts information to best manage their product designs while complying with government regulations—among them the July 2006 deadline for compliance to WEEE and RoHS directives.
Other PLM announcements:
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Centric Software received $19-million funding from Oak Investment Partners and others. Centric's Innovation suite includes portfolio and program management via online visibility and support that leverages distributed product content.
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Tecnomatix Technologies has expanded its two-year alliance with PLM vendor UGS by joining UGS' partner program. "By partnering with UGS, [we bring together] manufacturing process management domain expertise and the enterprise scalability of UGS' E-factory digital manufacturing solutions," says Amir Livne, executive VP for Tecnomatix.
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