UGS Launches Teamcenter Content Management Solution, Extending Value of PLM with Integrated Product

“In today’s knowledge-based economy, organizations must meet consumer demands for information with accurate, relevant, consistent and current documentation,” said Steve Bashada, vice president of Teamcenter Applications, UGS. “By tying content management to PLM, Teamcenter’s new offering enables UGS customers to create, manage and reuse their vast amounts of product information in a dynamic publishing environment that creates a less costly and more efficient process for linking critical product knowledge with technical documents. Teamcenter now provides the capability to publish higher-reliability information automatically and on demand.”

Proven solution; state-of-the-art technology

The new offering announced today builds on Teamcenter’s state-of-the-art data management and collaboration technology to deliver a content management solution that treats product-related documentation as an intrinsic part of the product itself. The result is a proven solution that eliminates the manual, repetitive, error-prone steps typically associated with the development of technical publications. Using Teamcenter’s content management solution, companies can develop richer, more interactive and accurate documentation that is synchronized with the underlying product data and is generated in significantly less time. The new offering also makes it easy to localize documents with multiple language support, reconfigure to reflect product variants, or adapt to match a customized product.

“With content management software, we have increased the number of technical publications we produce by a factor of four,” said Morten Skakke, Manager of Technical Literature and e-Business, Danfoss Drives. “We have been able to do so without a corresponding increase in the number of technical authors required. Multi-language support has also allowed us to increase our localizations per manual from seven to 27 languages.

“Now that Teamcenter has integrated content management within its latest technology, we are enjoying greater cost reductions and improved performance from this system. In addition, we have improved collaboration due to Teamcenter’s support for global authoring teams, Web portal publishing and better integration with our translation office.”

Teamcenter uses a common change management process ensuring that all impacts to documentation caused by a change to the product are identified, and management is provided with visibility into the status of the implementation. Applying Teamcenter’s world-class configuration management capabilities to documents provides more flexibility to control content variability and facilitates the reuse of document components. Establishing a single source of product information improves the efficiency and accuracy of the entire documentation process.

Teamcenter’s content management offering adds value to a variety of technical publishing applications including:

• Product manuals such as user manuals and owner’s manuals as well as parts and product catalogs.
• Work instructions which include manufacturing process sheets, assembly/disassembly instructions, logistics support documents and service and repair manuals for maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO).
• General documents such as resource descriptions, costing and estimating documents and product labels.

Teamcenter’s new content management solution is available immediately. For more information, visit www.ugs.com/teamcenter.

About UGS

UGS is a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services with 4.3 million licensed seats and 47,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, UGS’ vision is to enable a world where organizations and their partners collaborate through global innovation networks to deliver world-class products and services while leveraging UGS’ open enterprise solutions, fulfilling the mission of enabling them to transform their process of innovation. For more information on UGS products and services, visit www.ugs.com.

Note: UGS, Transforming the process of innovation and Teamcenter are trademarks or registered trademarks of UGS Corp. or its subsidiaries in the United States and in other countries. All other trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks belong to their respective holders.

The statements in this news release that are not historical statements, including statements regarding expected benefits of the product, adoption by customers, continued innovation and other statements identified by forward looking terms such as "may," "will," "expect," "plan," "anticipate" or "project," are forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from such statements, including, among others, risks relating to developments in the PLM industry, competition, failure to innovate, partnering strategy, major design errors or security flaws and intellectual property. UGS has included a discussion of these and other pertinent risk factors in its quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2006 filed with the SEC. UGS disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Contact:

UGS Corp.
Jim Phelan, 314-264-8216
jim.phelan@ugs.com

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