CAE Announces Marketing Collaboration with Microsoft to Address Defence, Public Safety and Homeland Security Markets
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MONTREAL, Nov. 27 -- (NYSE: CGT; TSX: CAE) - CAE today announced that it will work together with Microsoft Corporation to provide collaborative simulation solutions for the defence, public safety and homeland security markets.
Microsoft has selected CAE as a worldwide "go-to-market" Industry Priority Solution partner focused on simulation-based solutions, including professional services and commercial-off-the-shelf simulation software. Working together in the defence, public safety and homeland security sectors, Microsoft and CAE will utilize the products, services, and expertise of their respective companies to provide decision support, training, and other simulation-based solutions. In the new collaboration relationship, CAE will be a Microsoft lead collaborator in defence, public safety and homeland security where it has already established itself as a proven and trusted provider of simulation and modelling products and services.
"Defence, public safety, and homeland security are important market focus areas for Microsoft," said Tim Bloechl, Executive Director for Worldwide Public Safety and National Security at Microsoft. "As a company that works closely with industry partners to meet the needs of customers around the world, we've been working to identify a number of leading independent solution vendors with expertise in these markets and a proven record of delivering Microsoft-based solutions. CAE, with its offerings for simulation and modelling products and services, was a logical choice."
"Like CAE, Microsoft sees the potential for increased use of simulation by a broader market audience," said Marc Parent, CAE's Group President, Simulation Products and Military Training & Services. "By collaborating with Microsoft, we see an opportunity to develop new markets, new solutions and new channels for our simulation-based products and professional services."
CAE's collaboration with Microsoft will include Presagis, CAE's company specializing in COTS simulation software. As CAE designs simulation-based solutions for the defence, public safety, and homeland security markets, COTS simulation software from Presagis as well as Microsoft ESP, the new visual simulation platform, will be used in the development of the overall solution.
CAE is a world leader in providing simulation and modelling technologies and integrated training solutions for the civil aviation industry and defence forces around the globe. With annual revenues exceeding C$1 billion, CAE employs approximately 6,000 people at more than 75 sites and training locations in 20 countries. We have the largest installed base of civil and military full-flight simulators and training devices. Through our global network of 27 civil aviation and military training centres, we train more than 75,000 crewmembers yearly. We also offer modelling and simulation software to various market segments and CAE's professional services division assists customers with a wide range of simulation-based needs. www.cae.com
Source: CAE INC.
CONTACT: CAE contacts: Nathalie Bourque, Vice President, Public Affairs and Global Communications, (514) 734-5788, nathalie.bourque@cae.com;
Trade media: Chris Stellwag, Director,Marketing Communications, Simulation Products and Military Training & Services, (813) 887-1242, chris.stellwag@cae.com;
