Alliance adds database software to PLM portfolio

UGS Corp has signed a new reseller agreement with Microsoft that extends the strategic alliance the two companies announced earlier this year.

UGS Corp has signed a new reseller agreement with Microsoft that extends the strategic alliance the two companies announced earlier this year.

Under the new agreement, UGS becomes the first PLM company authorised to sell Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft's market-leading database software, directly to companies looking for a comprehensive PLM solution fully supporting the Microsoft platform.

"UGS' long-standing relationship with Microsoft was a critical factor in enabling us to announce last year, one of the industry's only full scale PLM solutions to fully support SQL Server 2005", said Chuck Grindstaff, Executive Vice President, Products, UGS.

"That relationship was further strengthened with our joint strategic alliance announcement in May, and this announcement is the logical next step, enabling our world-class sales team to immediately begin delivering the industry's most complete PLM solution directly to our customers who have embraced the Microsoft environment".

As a result of the agreement, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is being added to the official UGS Price Book, enabling all UGS salespeople worldwide to quote prices directly to customers and to include the database software as part of an overall PLM proposal.

"This agreement helps make industry-leading PLM solutions readily available to enable manufacturing companies to bring innovative new products to market based on what customers want", said Paul Flessner, Senior Vice President, Data Storage and Platform Division, at Microsoft Corp.

"UGS PLM solutions in partnership with SQL Server 2005 fosters peak performance by enabling seamless collaboration throughout the entire extended enterprise, including suppliers and customers".

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