Geometric Software Solutions Company Ltd on June 12, 2007 has announced the acquisition of PLM adapters for enterprise integration from MeritSpring Technologies AG of Switzerland. These adapters are currently being used extensively in aerospace and other engineering industries.
The acquisition includes transferring both Intellectual Property and all existing related contracts to the Company. These adapters viz. Teamcenter® Adapter and Windchill® Adapter will enable the Company to broaden its offering in the PLM interoperability space, as they directly address a large portion of the PLM market. Furthermore they provide a foundation for the creation of solutions in the fast evolving Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) ecosystem.
Parag Kale, Head of the Enterprise Products business of the Company said, "The addition of these adapters will help us accelerate the creation of innovative, state-of-the-art interoperability solutions and significantly expand the markets that we address. We are now uniquely positioned to offer a range of solutions to suit customer requirements while allowing them to leverage their existing infrastructure. These adapters will expedite our development of SOA enabled interoperability products".
The Enterprise Products business of the Company provides scalable, high performance and extensible interoperability solutions in the PLM space. These solutions are being increasingly sought by industries that seek to drive greater efficiencies through information and process integration in the product realization value stream, such as the automotive, aerospace and hi-tech industries. The Company already offers xPDM Gateway, a rich integration solution that connects ENOVIATM from Dassault Systemes and Teamcenter® Engineering and Teamcenter® Enterprise from UGS (Siemens). The Company has recently achieved "Powered by SAP NetWeaver® status for its (Software Lifecycle Management) SLM Gateway version 1.0. The SAP Integration and Certification Center has certified that SLM Gateway 1.0 properly integrates with the SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure (SAP NetWeaver XI) component of the SAP NetWeaver platform to exchange data instances of the SAP® Business Suite. It is also successfully integrated with the SAP NetWeaver Portal.