CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
02 November 2004
Company News
Intergraph Process, Power & Marine and DNV Software Sign New Agreement to Sharpen Market Focus of IntelliShip and Nauticus Software
The Process, Power & Marine
division of Intergraph Corporation and Det Norske Veritas Software jointly
announced they have signed a contract to strengthen the companies' existing
strategic alliance by realigning sales and distribution of the IntelliShip™
software for the commercial shipbuilding and offshore oil and gas markets.
The goal of the agreement is to further expand the value of IntelliShip
in early design and asset lifecycle management to shipyards and ship owners.
IntelliShip is a highly advanced marine engineering, modeling and lifecycle
information management environment.
Under terms of the agreement, Intergraph will expand sales efforts to
market IntelliShip to shipyards for detailed design and will license a
subset of IntelliShip to DNV Software, while DNV Software will manage
sales of IntelliShip for detailed design in the Nordic and Baltic regions,
Germany and Poland.
Importantly, DNV Software will build early design software on the IntelliShip
technology and will exclusively sell the resulting products under the
brand name Nauticus Early Design. The Nauticus Early Design software will
perform early design functions of optimizing cost, safety and manufacturability
of ships and offshore installations. DNV Software will also migrate its
ship lifecycle engineering information management tools to the same technology
base. The result will comprise a set of the companies' products covering
the entire ship lifecycle which will minimize data translation and enable
seamless data handoff between lifecycle stages. All resulting software
products will be specifically open to inclusion of class rules from any
marine classification society.
The Intergraph IntelliShip (ppm.intergraph.com/marine) knowledge-based,
integrated 3D modeling and 2D engineering software streamlines shipbuilding,
appreciably lowering manpower and material costs and significantly reducing
overall design and construction outlays and schedules. IntelliShip heralds
the obsolescence of existing CAD-constrained, heavily customized ship
design and engineering software.
Since 2002, Intergraph and DNV Software have worked together under a licensing,
co-marketing and reseller agreement for integrating and marketing their
respective technologies. These include Intergraph IntelliShip, related
SmartPlant® software and lifecycle engineering information management
tools and the DNV Software Nauticus Early Design and engineering information
management lifecycle products.
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