Federation Software Announces 'Federation Express' Allowing PLM Systems to Federate in Just One Week


Denver, CO September 19, 2006 - Federation Software, developers of the Federated Value Chain(TM), announced today the offer of a no-risk installation of its server-based solution that addresses the complex problems of multiple distributed PDM/PLM environments, whether internal or across a diverse supply chain.

Federation Software's success in the Aerospace and Defense sector and the recent release of Version 4.0 has positioned the company for success in additional vertical markets including High Tech, Discrete Manufacturing, Medical Device, Consumer Goods and Automotive. Thus, the 'Federation Express' Program is designed to demonstrate to new and potential clients the opportunity for implementation and direct evaluation of the Federation suite of products for their organizations' "Product DNA" data-handling needs. This program will allow potential customers the opportunity to witness first hand the immediate benefits the Federation products can bring to an organization. The Federation solution automatically synchronizes "Product DNA" across multiple PDM/PLM systems as well as critical supply chain members who have not implemented PLM. Using Federation's Independent Platform Gateway (IPG) and Value Chain Connectors (VCC) installed on a secured server will provide IP protection, increased product quality, decreased time to value, reduced total cost of production and assist with product compliance issues.

Federation Express offers an efficient and methodical way to dynamically integrate in only one week (slightly longer for customized systems), to federate "Product DNA", this is due to numerous enhancements and tools that have been developed for Federation's current version 4.0.

"Sharing Product DNA throughout your supply chain can be extremely labor intensive, prone to time lags and working with-out-of date BOMs, with no way to protect your IP as it is dispersed out to your supply chain," said VP Marketing, Ken Leslie. "Now with Federation Express, we can show you how easy it is to federate "Product DNA" infinitely throughout your supply chain, in your environment on an accelerated basis".

Major High Tech and Equipment manufacturers often experience a myriad of problems when part designs and other assembly data is served by distributed supply chain networks. The multiple points of data access create confusion via versioning errors and a slowdown in productivity. Moreover, the fragmentation of workflow many times leads to intellectual property leakage, compromises in quality, compliance issues, greater total production costs, and increased time-to-market.

With the installation of the secure Federated Value Chain of products from Federation Software, these problems can be wholly eliminated by allowing information from multiple PLM systems to be quickly synchronized and channeled to a single point of access. With the new Federation Express Program, a solution is only weeks away.

"Through the Federation Express program, Federation furnishes the server and an on-site professional, who installs the software and enables the federation of your Product DNA to your supply chain. Without training or previous experience, extra hardware procurement, or downtime, clients can see for themselves how the Federation system works, based a sample set of their own data," explains Ken Leslie. "This offer best demonstrates the full power of our technology, with absolutely no risk." Success is guaranteed, with pre-qualification and a simple click through agreement in place, true data federation for your Product Lifecycle Management system is available now.

This is a limited time offer contact Federation Software to inquire about the qualification process at info@federationsoftware.com.

About Federation Software
Federation Software designs, builds and delivers software solutions that federate data across the entire product development and value chain. With Federation Software, manufacturers can dramatically increase productivity throughout their supply chain by being able to seamlessly and persistently share up-to-the-minute product data in an automated, controlled, and secure fashion to other enterprise systems, regardless of location and systems in place.

Federation's Value Chain Suite of software solutions supports federated data exchange between major PLM systems including: PTC, MatrixOne(TM) and UGS Teamcenter. Federation's solutions have provided high value data federation for critical projects at Boeing, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Honeywell and US Army

Federation Software was formed in 1998 and is headquartered in Denver, CO. with sales offices throughout the United States and Europe. For more information visit: www.federationsoftware.com .

Press Contact:
Rachael Dalton-Taggart
Strategic Reach Public Relations
rachdt@strategicreachpr.com
(303) 487-7406

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