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Available as on-demand, pay-as-you-go service, SigmaExpress provides OEMs with means to upload product test, engineering, manufacturing, and supplier data. Details such as real-time yield comparisons, and marginal measurements between multiple sites and/or lines, along with analyses, are provided to customer in form of real-time, web-based dashboards and discovery wizards. Alerts describe potential defects or problems as well as list of actionable information.
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SigmaQuest's SigmaExpress Product Performances Intelligence and Quality Management System Eliminates the Need For Desktop Test Data Management Tools, Software Installation, Hardware, or Maintenance
Software as a Service, on-demand model reduces OEMs' IT costs, provides 100% availability and eliminates need for internal support systems
SANTA CLARA, Calif., August 8, 2005--SigmaQuest(TM) Inc., the leading provider of software for managing product performances intelligence and quality throughout manufacturing and a product's lifecycle, today introduced SigmaExpress, the industry's first product performance intelligence software specifically designed to be offered as an "on-demand" service.
SigmaExpress, the initial software offering to be directly hosted by SigmaQuest, provides OEMs with the means to upload product test, engineering, manufacturing, and supplier data (such as product performance, equipment utilization, process variability, and supplier quality, as well as return material authorization (RMA) data from globally distributed locations). At the site, information is aggregated and synchronized for the purpose of helping OEM customers ensure quality throughout their product lifecycles. Details such as real-time yield comparisons, and marginal measurements between multiple sites and/or lines, along with analyses, are provided to the customer in the form of real-time, web-based dashboards and discovery wizards. The system also includes alerts that describe potential defects or problems as well as a list of actionable information.
SigmaExpress securely and easily collaborates data anywhere and at anytime as the data resides on a world-class IT infrastructure that features optimal levels of reliability, availability and security. The hosted software system also eliminates unnecessary costs, disruptions and difficulties that can be associated with desktop test data management implementations. Moreover, the "pay as you go" service is designed to lower customers' costs, as they no longer need to install additional hardware and software or hire additional IT resources for managing product performance intelligence information systems.
"The demand for SigmaQuest's offerings has been increasing exponentially over the past few years. While many OEMs desire to purchase licenses of the software to host themselves, there is a growing base of companies that are choosing the Software as a Service model," noted Nader Fathi, president and CEO of SigmaQuest. "SigmaExpress lowers the barrier to those OEMs that are seeking to take advantage of SigmaSure's rich capabilities and provides them with the opportunity for faster time to implementation while reducing their IT support costs."
SigmaExpress, based on SigmaQuest's award-wining SigmaSure Enterprise Edition software, helps customers gain knowledge into product development and manufacturing challenges throughout their product lifecycles. It gives users real-time insight into how to improve products and processes. The comprehensive "any data, any tester, anywhere" software solution provides for real-time capturing, aggregating, and analyzing of functional test results and quality data from any location regardless of existing hardware and software infrastructures which may vary widely across dispersed organizations and companies.
SigmaExpress is SigmaQuest's first product designed specifically to be offered as a service. Through collaboration with OpSource, the leader in enabling Software as a Service (as announced in May 2005) SigmaQuest provides 24x7x365 technical support, application management, scheduled tape backups, performance and stability monitoring and evaluation in a fully-redundant infrastructure housed in a Tier 1 secure data center facility.
Flexible Licensing Model
In addition to the SigmaExpress on-demand solution, SigmaQuest continues to license its SigmaSure Enterprise Edition directly to customers, which they set up within their own IT infrastructure.
Cost and Availability
SigmaExpress is available today. For pricing information, please contact SigmaQuest by calling 408-654-9401 or emailing info@sigmaquest.com
About SigmaQuest
SigmaQuest Inc. is an enterprise software company whose solutions provide unprecedented insight and actionable information to ensure product and process integrity, by collecting, aggregating, controlling and analyzing test and quality data. Its solutions enable global enterprises such as OEMs that design, manufacture and service a broad array of products ranging from wireless devices, to pacemakers to fuel cells, to optimize product time-to-market, cost and quality. This is accomplished through personalized views of product quality information, pro-active alerts and comprehensive traceability - all in real time.
The company is headquartered at 2901 Tasman Drive, Suite 109, Santa Clara, CA 95054. It can also be reached at 408-654-9401, www.sigmaquest.com.
SigmaQuest is trademark of SigmaQuest, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
