CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
24 November 2005
Company News
Actify Inc Signs New Distribution Agreement With Kisters AG
Actify Inc . announced that Kisters AG has become its newest German distributor. Under the terms of the agreement Kisters will offer Actify products, training and support to manufacturers in Germany-complementing Actify's existing channel strategy in the region. Kisters AG will be exhibiting Actify's Suite of Products at Euromold, Frankfurt Germany, 30 November to 3 December, in Hall 8.0, Stand B86.
Actify products enable manufacturing companies and their worldwide supply chains to securely access and distribute 2D and 3D CAD files without the need for costly CAD systems or complex data management systems. Kisters sells the entire Actify product range-including SpinFire Professional, Actify Publisher, SpinFire for Microsoft Office and Actify SDK, which provides developers and systems integrators with everything they need to integrate Actify's visualization capabilities with their own applications.
Randy Ochs, president and CEO of Actify said, "The agreement with Kisters AG compliments our current channel relationships in the German region and provides us with new opportunities to reach out to some of the large manufacturing organizations that characterize Kisters' customer base. Actify recently launched Actify DesignShare to address the collaboration needs of workgroups and design teams within manufacturing corporations. Our partnership with Kisters comes at a particular opportunistic time."
Hanns Kisters, member of the Kisters Board of Directors commented, "Actify's Suite of Products, an out-of-the-box solution, are perfectly adapted to customers requirements. For installations in large manufacturing companies our integration services, coupled with the Actify Suite of Products, ensure we can much better serve our customers. With Actify's Solution Suite, we can offer a diverse set of options to high end professional clients, including a communication and collaboration solution embedded in Microsoft Office to a free viewer for casual users."
Headquartered in Aachen, Germany Kisters has been providing products, support and services to German manufacturers since 1963. Its customers include Airbus, Bosch, DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Bahn, EADS, ThyssenKrupp, Volkswagen and more.
KISTERS AG is Germany's leading competence and distributor for visualization and imaging tools as well as large format equipment. The growing importance of visualization in more and more business processes and most phases of the product life cycle has made KISTERS an appreciated partner for the free enterprises from small up to the well-known multinationals as well as for institutions of public administrative authorities. The same is true for KISTERS' proprietary information systems for the management of natural resources and the deregulated energy markets as well as for all requirements of environment, health and safety. KISTERS systems are in use at more than 100.000 workplaces in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. KISTERS is an incorporated company headquartered in Aachen, Germany, and subsidiaries in the United States of America, Australia, France, and Spain. For more information visit http://www.kisters.de or call +49.241.96710.
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