SDRC Announces Industry's First Suite of Collaborative Product Management Solutions

Business Wire, May 30, 2001

Business & High-Tech Editors

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 30, 2001

SDRC (Nasdaq:SDRC)

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SDRC TeamCenter(TM) enables global manufacturers to reduce

time-to-market and costs, while increasing productivity

SDRC (Nasdaq:SDRC) today announced at its Collaborative Product Management Symposium in Orlando, Florida, SDRC TeamCenter(TM), the industry's first suite of collaborative product management solutions. TeamCenter is uniquely product-centric, enabling virtual enterprises -- comprised of dispersed knowledge users and diverse application systems -- to collaborate on the planning, development, and support of products.

TeamCenter is built on an open, Internet-standards based, web-native environment, and it is the only solution that unites all of the critical technologies essential for collaboratively managing all aspects of the products, including: requirements, designs, configurations, documents, and related business information. The integration of these technology components enables TeamCenter to deliver solution value never before possible, enabling global manufacturers to bring new products to market faster, with better quality and less cost.

"TeamCenter is a revolutionary step forward for SDRC," said Bill Weyand, chairman and CEO, SDRC. "Confirming our own research on this new product with customers, prospects, and analysts, we believe that TeamCenter provides manufacturers exactly what is needed to stay competitively viable in today's product development environment -- a new, web-native collaboration environment to bind together disparate systems into one integrated source of data and knowledge that is aligned with product lifecycle business processes. TeamCenter will enable these global manufacturers to turn their product development organizations into competitive engines for business growth."

Based on Sun Microsystem's Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), the recognized standard for today's Internet-based e-business framework, TeamCenter fully embraces the web for managing the product lifecycle and is the first CAD-neutral collaborative product management solution in the industry. TeamCenter is a breakthrough in collaborative product management, delivering a new era of business value.

"Aberdeen finds that SDRC's new corporate strategy and the introduction of their TeamCenter solution clearly positions them in the CPC market space," said Jack Maynard, research director, Aberdeen Group. "Their new collaborative development architecture has the potential to deliver on the promise of what PDM was meant to be and to deliver this value beyond the engineering community to all constituents involved in the product lifecycle."

TeamCenter's Solution Suite:

TeamCenter is a component-based system. According to Ed Miller, president of CIMdata, Inc., "The components approach allows for unparalleled openness by allowing customers to not only use SDRC's components, but also their own components, components from other products, and components developed by third parties."

At the cornerstone of TeamCenter is the Collaboration Foundation, providing the web infrastructure that controls and manages product information throughout the virtual enterprise. This foundation allows globally dispersed teams to author, share, and access product information as it proceeds across the product lifecycle. TeamCenter leverages the Collaboration Foundation to offer functional solutions that address company-specific lifecycle requirements, including:

-- TeamCenter Project Collaboration -- creates a real-time

workspace to create, share, and manage project information.

Reduces product development costs by synchronizing the tasks

and schedules of project teams through the value chain, while

optimizing resource allocation through skill mix and

availability.

-- TeamCenter Requirements Collaboration -- enables entitled

participants, customers and suppliers, to create, capture,

share, and manage product requirements. Reduces warranty costs

while increasing product quality through its unique ability to

build customer and regulatory requirements compliance early

into the product development process.

-- TeamCenter Product Collaboration -- enables he entire value

chain to capture dispersed product information, transform it

into product knowledge and share and manage this knowledge on

an extended enterprise basis. Dramatically reduces development

cycles times and costs through managing product information

and development processes in the world's only web-native

collaborative product management environment.

-- TeamCenter Design Collaboration -- provides breakthrough

technology that synchronizes today's leading-edge

visualization and mockup capabilities with product structure

browsing, enabling global teams to create, share, and manage

virtual prototypes and assembles from multiple geometry