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17 May 2004
Company News
UGS PLM Solutions Rolls Out Redesigned Integrated Global Partnership Program to Facilitate Growth and Expansion into New Industries
UGS PLM Solutions launched the UGS Partner Program, a completely redesigned partnership program uniting its more than 300 business partners worldwide under a common, integrated structure.
The company made the announcement in conjunction with today's opening of PLM World.
The new UGS Partner Program enables companies worldwide that want to partner with UGS PLM Solutions to operate under a common streamlined structure that will enhance the experience for all third-party companies doing business with the company. The new framework aligns with UGS PLM Solutions' strategy to grow its solution portfolio, new industry penetration and market share by facilitating further expansion of existing relationships as well as the creation of new ones.
As the world's leading supplier of open, comprehensive PLM solutions, our customers look to us for complete solutions to satisfy their product lifecycle requirements and our world-class business partners are essential for meeting those expectations, said Tony Affuso, president and CEO of UGS PLM Solutions, who is scheduled to deliver a keynote address today at PLM World. In addition to significantly expanding our suite of solutions, the UGS Partner Program also extends our market reach and facilitates the growth of the company's marketing and sales channels. This new streamlined partnership approach enables us to focus our resources on expanding the program into new industries and increasing market awareness, resulting in further enhancement of our competitive position.
The new UGS Partner Program integrates the best practices of seven partnership programs from UGS PLM Solutions open heritage under one common framework and provides a simple tiered structure to accommodate the wide variety of relationships and third-party organizations within the global UGS PLM Solutions ecosystem. All UGS PLM Solutions business partners now fall into one of the following four categories corresponding to their level of alignment and integration with the company:
Partner -a relationship focused on the value of marketing to a mutual client base.
Open Partner -a relationship centered on the adoption of UGS PLM Solutions' open PLM component products that includes joint sales and marketing activities.
Foundation Partner -a relationship centered on the adoption of UGS PLM Solutions' Foundation Technologies that includes specifically defined joint sales and marketing activities.
Strategic Partner -a strategic relationship centered on mutual investment for the joint pursuit of significant, long-term opportunities.
In addition, the new program establishes several competency categories used to further define the specific areas of expertise the partner brings to the relationship. These designations specify competencies in categories including software, services, training and technology. Additional information on the new UGS Partner Program can be found at http://www.ugsplm.com/partners
Ensuring partners' success is one of the guiding principles of the new UGS Partner Program. UGS PLM Solutions listened to the requests and business requirements from third-party organizations around the globe to ensure the new program would provide partners with significant benefit regardless of the nature of the relationship.
One of the driving forces behind this newly energized program is to address the needs of our valued business partners throughout the world, said Chris Kelley, vice president, UGS Partner Program. In addition to providing our partners with increased access to our state-of-the-art PLM technologies, the UGS Partner Program creates a greatly simplified path to expand our partner relationships into new areas while enabling increased visibility into UGS PLM Solutions' sales and marketing campaigns. The end result will help fuel our growth and our partners' success.
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