Lucent Virtual Design Teams Enabled by Synchronicity; Designers from Two Companies in Five Cities Work as One Team - Company Business and Marketing

Cambridge Telcom Report, Feb 21, 2000

Synchronicity Monday announced the successful implementation of a virtual design team infrastructure for Lucent Technologies Microelectronics Group, the world leader in communications semiconductors.

The client/server environment was constructed from Synchronicity's enterprise solutions, DesignSync and ProjectSync. Design engineers in Holmdel, N.J.; Allentown, Pa.; Portland, Maine; and Ascot, U.K. are now able to share development data and communicate more efficiently. Also included, in the verification effort, is ASIC Alliance of Woburn, Mass., an engineering consulting and services company, which has been made part of the virtual team in a seamless but secure fashion.

"Before we tried Synchronicity, we had a collection of various data management tools that worked for small, co-located teams. But, with increasing chip complexity and the necessity for larger, multi-location design teams, we needed to effectively unify the remote design and verification teams in order to collapse time to market" said Eugene Scuteri, Director of Broadband IC development at Lucent's Microelectronics Group. "A couple of weeks after installing Synchronicity software, we had multiple development locations working over the Internet smoothly and efficiently. We were really impressed with the ease of transitioning the multi-location design teams to the new Synchronicity environment."

Dennis Harmon, Synchronicity CEO, commented, "We are pleased to be able to help an industry leader such as Lucent. Synchronicity has been implementing enterprise design and project management solutions since 1997 and business-to-business collaboration systems for over a year, but here Lucent takes the lead by combining them and virtualizing the entire development team."

Lucent Technologies designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronics components. Bell Labs is the research and development arm for the company. For more information on Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., USA, visit its Web site at http://www.lucent.com.

Lucent's Microelectronics Group designs and manufactures integrated circuits and optoelectronics components for the computer and communications industries. More information about Lucent's Microelectronics Group is available from its Web site at http://www.lucent.com/micro.> Synchronicity supplies Internet-based enterprise & business-to-business collaboration solutions to manage the supply chain feeding the development of complex electronic products. Synchronicity's enterprise applications, DesignSync(3) and ProjectSync(3), enhance design productivity by enabling effective data management, parallel development techniques and proactive team communication within the design team, across the enterprise and between businesses. Synchronicity's IP Gear family of application servers enables organizations to create Web-accessible, centralized resource portals that enhance visibility, support complex decision processes, and manage the relationships and communication between the members of the development supply chain. Headquartered in Marlboro, MA, 508/485-4122, Synchronicity has offices worldwide, see www.syncinc.com.