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20 December 2005

Product News

UGS Delivers on PLM Vision for Mid-Market - Ships UGS Velocity Series' Teamcenter Express

UGS Corp. announced Teamcenter® Express software, its breakthrough mid-market collaborative product data management (cPDM) solution, is shipping to customers worldwide, fulfilling UGS' Sept. 28, 2005 commitment to bring PLM to the mid-market.

Teamcenter Express helps companies transform their process of innovation by applying preconfigured best practices to everyday engineering tasks and processes. Teamcenter Express is the first mid-market offering to combine industry-proven digital product development with the unparalleled technology of UGS' Teamcenter® software.

"Teamcenter Express applies preconfigured industry best practices from UGS' years of cPDM leadership," said Barry Dudley, business unit director, UGS Velocity Series Product Development, UGS. "This provides a low total cost of ownership through a framework built for ease of installation, setup, use and support. With this shipment UGS has now delivered on all products announced with its UGS Velocity Series."

New Product Addresses Critical Mid-market Data Management Needs

Teamcenter Express is part of the new UGS UGS Velocity SeriesT portfolio, , the industry's first comprehensive, preconfigured portfolio of digital product design, analysis and data management software for the PLM mid-market. Key advantages include:

Open Multi-CAD Support : Aligned with UGS' "Open by Design" strategy, Teamcenter Express manages and synchronizes product information from any major CAD system, including CATIA®, AutoCAD®, Autodesk Inventor and SolidWorks®. Best-in-class integrations are provided with UGS' Solid Edge® and NX CADTM systems.

Rapid implementation : Pre-configured cPDM environment enables quick installation of the server and client software components as well as a short learning curve.

Low cost of ownership : Teamcenter Express has a low initial software and maintenance cost, rapid training and minimal IT setup plus ease of support, contributing to low total cost of ownership..

Dynamic user interface : State-of-the-art user interface with a dynamic, adaptive layout that will be familiar to users of Microsoft© OutlookT, facilitates easy navigation and dynamic searches.

Best practice workflows : Powerful pre-configured workflow capabilities include industry best practice workflows for design release and engineering order processes.

BOM creation and editing : The proven Product Structure Manager (PSM) module enables users to create a product structure view of the CAD assembly, perform manipulations, graphically view and navigate and create BOM reports.

Built-in reporting : Report wizards guide the user to create standard reports, such product structure/Bill-of-Materials (BOM).

Teamcenter technology : It optionally supports multi-site implementation option and is scalable to the full Teamcenter PLM portfolio as needs grow.

For more information, visit http://www.ugs.com/velocity   and http://www.ugs.com/teamcenterexpress .

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