UGS PLM Solutions Achieves Leadership Status in Product Lifecycle Management Industry Report

PLANO, Texas, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- UGS PLM Solutions, the product lifecycle management subsidiary of EDS (NYSE:EDS), today announced it has achieved "Leadership Status" -- with top scores in both major evaluation categories -- in META Group's recently released METAspectrum for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). META Group is a leading research and consulting firm that focuses on information technology and business transformation strategies.

The new METAspectrum evaluation provides an objective assessment of companies providing PLM, which the report describes as "the range of collaborative applications that address the creation, control and communication of product-related information inside the enterprise and with partners."

"We are very pleased with our top ranking by META Group and we applaud the evaluation criteria and methodology used in the newly released METAspectrum," said Tony Affuso, president and CEO of UGS PLM Solutions. "META Group has done an excellent job of capturing the key components that define what is important when evaluating a PLM supplier and its offerings. The results serve to validate the proven deployments, flexibility and scalability of our industry-leading Teamcenter(R) solution and the report recognizes UGS PLM Solutions' leading market presence and exceptional software and services performance."

Top scores in both areas of evaluation

UGS PLM Solutions was placed in the "leadership" segment of the METAspectrum analysis, having achieved top scores in both market presence and performance -- the two main dimensions by which a product and its associated vendor are analyzed in the META Group report. Specific strengths cited in the report regarding UGS PLM Solutions and its products include:

- - Excellent enterprise multi-CAD visualization capabilities with support for six integrated tools available for specific visualization needs, such as collaborative design. The visualization tools are embedded in UGS PLM Solutions' Teamcenter suite of PLM applications.

- - Desirable breadth for a PLM solution, enabling organizations to buy from a single vendor.

- - Expertise to help implement and manage PLM installs for organizations.

- - Financial capability to continue investing in software development.

- - Off-the-shelf PLM industry solutions covering multiple verticals (e.g., automotive, aerospace/defense, consumer packaged goods).

Evaluation categories: market presence and performance

According to the META Group report: "Proven deployments, flexibility and scalability of the PLM technology backbone, and evolution of PLM functionality across the product life cycle define the standard for success in the PLM market. Vendors should be evaluated first on proven market presence, particularly in specific industries, second on feature/functionality, and third on services provided in-house or through partnerships."

The report continues, "As PLM strategies are long term and core components such as PDM are still central to the PLM strategy, vendor viability, measured by market presence, is important. Performance points the way forward and is an indicator of cost of ownership. As the market matures and overall performance improves, pricing, implementation, and support will become more important."

Teamcenter

Teamcenter, UGS PLM Solutions' flagship PLM portfolio, optimizes business performance by uniting product knowledge and collaboration across the extended enterprise, throughout the product lifecycle. Teamcenter is the PLM digital enterprise backbone, with industry-leading, proven solutions targeted at lifecycle domain and industry-focused business challenges where quick implementation and a rapid return on investment are essential. UGS PLM Solutions announced in October that Teamcenter had exceeded one million licenses sold -- the first PLM portfolio to achieve this milestone.

About UGS PLM Solutions

UGS PLM Solutions, a leader in product data management, collaboration and product design software and services with 41,000 clients and more than 2.6 million seats of technology operating in the market, is the product lifecycle management (PLM) subsidiary of EDS. The company works collaboratively with its clients to create solutions enabling them to transform their process of innovation and thus begin to capture the promise of PLM. The integration of the former operations of companies including Structural Dynamics Research Corporation (SDRC), Engineering Animation Inc. (EAI) and UGS, UGS PLM Solutions has created some of the leading design, collaboration and product data management technologies that ultimately formed the foundation of the PLM industry. Today, the company is a family of one, building on three decades of leadership in continuing to be a pioneer in PLM. 

www.ugsplmsolutions.com

 

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