CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
18 October 2005
Product News
New .NET®-based RuleStream 6.0 Maximizes Manufacturers' Investments in Rules-driven Product Management
RuleStream Corporation announced the general availability of RuleStream 6.0, a Microsoft .NET®-based version of the company's rules-driven product management (RPM) solution. RuleStream's patent-pending software solution aggregates and manages Intellectual Property (IP) assets to automate complex decisions for all product-centric business operations.
RuleStream 6.0 allows manufacturers and their customers and suppliers to access and create new product designs securely and easily over the Internet. Taking full advantage of its new .NET-based architecture, RuleStream 6.0's new web capabilities empower distribution and supplier partners to securely cross corporate boundaries and directly benefit from RuleStream's automation and productivity enhancement tools.
RuleStream 6.0 is a highly scalable solution than can serve thousands of users, leveraging both hardware and software load balancing features to provide excellent response times without any sacrifice to the rich-client feel that RuleStream customers have come to enjoy and expect.
"RuleStream's move to .NET is a big step toward making RPM available to a broader audience of manufacturers, including industries like F&A, AEC, automotive, aerospace and defense," said Ed Miller, president of CIMdata, a leading global consulting and research firm focused on PLM. "Manufacturers are beginning to realize that you don't have to be an engineer-to-order firm to benefit from rules-driven product management."
"RuleStream 6.0 marks an important step for rules-driven product management, expanding the use of RPM beyond the physical enterprise," said David Vredenburgh, chief operating officer and co-founder of RuleStream Corporation. "RuleStream 6.0 allows manufacturers to include their outside sales force - including dealers - as they deploy an RPM system. And with .NET, users all over the globe can contribute to a company's centralized, secure knowledge database. With today's announcement, RuleStream is broadening its market reach and its ability to help companies gain a competitive advantage."
"Moving to a .NET platform is going to have a significant impact on RuleStream's offering," said Bill Gerould, industry director, worldwide discrete manufacturing, Microsoft Corporation. ".NET's robust platform will give more users the ability to access RuleStream's solutions, opening up the opportunity for the company to extend the reach of RPM."
RuleStream 6.0 features the new RS CAD and Visualization server, which allows remote non-CAD users to easily view designs, improving the ease of use and extending the availability of RuleStream to a wider range of users. This new feature allows users to request geometry information about a design from RuleStream and to view the design once the geometry is created.
RuleStream 6.0 also has a new user interface with several new features including dockable windows, making the design of RuleStream applications more simple and flexible.
Microsoft .NET connects systems, information, and devices through Web services so people can collaborate and communicate more effectively. For more information on .NET-based RuleStream 6.0, visit http://www.rulestream.com/pages.asp?page=65 .
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