SmarTeam, Primavera to integrate project management, collaboration software
According to Avichay Nissenbaum, vice president of product marketing for Smart Solutions Ltd., "Projects that run efficiently, adhere to budget, and complete on time, return business for many manufacturers. Providing innovative tools to help customers achieve successful results is paramount. The powerful combination of SmarTeam for managing complex product development information and Primavera for managing projects provides firms with increased collaboration capabilities for product and resource planning on an enterprise-wide level."
"The Primavera Partners Program provides a framework for establishing and nurturing relationships with companies that offer complementary solutions for Primavera products," explains John Garay, Primavera's Alliance Manager. "We look forward to working with SmarTeam to help customers create collaborative product data management environments that include information about schedules, documents, financials, and timesheets."
SmarTeam customer Aalborg Industries www.aalborg.dk is reinventing itself to meet the challenges of global competition. In an initiative to reduce costs and shorten delivery time, the boilers and steam generators the company used to manufacture at one facility in Erie, PA, are now fabricated around the world through a supply chain, sub-suppliers, subcontractors, and extended enterprise partners. Design activities are similarly dispersed to different locations, with about half of Aalborg's detailed design graphics work now done off-site by others.
To speed up communication and collaboration in their extended enterprise, Aalborg is replacing outdated paper-based document procedures with a new "virtual office" environment where information in a central database will be accessed via a web-based system anywhere, anytime, by anyone: employees, supply chain sub-suppliers, subcontractors, and strategic partners as well as customers.
Aalborg has selected SmarTeam packages for managing its document control functions, and as a platform for its collaboration portal. The software is being tightly integrated with other systems to form the electronic enterprise envisioned by Aalborg: Oracle Applications for managing business data, Primavera for project management, and eTimeMachine for time/event reporting. SAR Associates, a Primavera Authorized Representative from Ontario, Canada, www.sarsystems.com is providing additional integration services for Aalborg.
The next step in Aalborg's vision for the virtual office is to exchange information with suppliers and customers online in real time, giving everyone in the company's extended enterprise direct, immediate access to authorized portions of the SmarTeam database.
"This is part of an aggressive web strategy to bring all our stakeholders on line with us in real time," explains Zurn. "We envision a bi-directional electronic exchange of all the information now flowing throughout the supply chain including drawings, CAD models, engineering changes, and other project design files as well as project status information, prices, quotes, bids, etc. Plans are also in the works to integrate PDM with other applications such as scheduling and ERP on the site. The integration of this application software with the SmarTeam collaboration modules will form the core of Aalborg's virtual office."
About Primavera Systems, Inc.
Founded in 1983, Primavera Systems, Inc. is the leading provider of enterprise and Web-based project management, control and execution software. Primavera's innovative solutions help companies around the world achieve business success through project success. The company serves a broad range of industries, including aerospace and defense, automotive, chemical processing, construction, energy, engineering, financial services, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, software development, technology, telecommunications and utilities. Primavera's core products include Primavera Enterprise®, Primavera Project Planner® (P3®), Primavera Expedition®, Primavera TeamPlay™, PrimeContract™ and SureTrak Project Manager® (SureTrak®). The company is headquartered in Bala Cynwyd, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with offices in Chicago, New Hampshire, New York, San Francisco, Hong Kong and London. Visit Primavera at http://www.primavera.com/.
About Smart Solutions Ltd.
Smart Solutions Ltd., a Dassault Systemes S.A. company, develops and markets rapidly implemented, yet totally customizable, Windows and Web-centric collaborative product commerce (CPC) and product data management (PDM) solutions between teams, within the enterprise and throughout the supply chain. Smart Solutions was founded in 1995 and is one of the fastest growing companies the data management market with over 1,300 customers worldwide. SmarTeam's broad solutions portfolio enables small-to-medium sized manufacturing organizations and their supply chains to efficiently exchange, track, and management design information related to product development from concept to realization. SmarTeam's solutions help companies gain improvements in product quality, reduce costs, expedite project turnaround, comply with industry standards, and short time-to-market.
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