CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
6 October 2008
Implementation Investments
AspenTech Announces BASF as First Customer to Deploy aspenONE Using Microsoft Application Virtualization Technology
Aspen Technology, Inc. announced that the first deployment of aspenONE software using Microsoft Application Virtualization was completed by long-time customer BASF.
BASF used Microsoft Application Virtualization to accelerate how quickly its worldwide process engineering team can begin using and realizing value from new releases and updates of the aspenONE Process Engineering suite.
BASF engineers throughout the world have used aspenONE for years to create higher quality process modeling simulations and costing and sizing activities which improve plant designs and optimizes production.
Now, BASF is achieving additional IT and operational cost savings and faster performance improvements leveraging Microsoft Application Virtualization.
Microsoft’s virtualization technology decouples applications from operating systems and runs software as network services, making applications available whenever and wherever they are needed, even when disconnected from the network.
aspenONE is the application suite that enables process manufacturers to implement best practices for optimizing engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain operations. Earlier this month, AspenTech released aspenONE V7 for Process Engineering, making it easier for process industry companies to adopt the seven best practices of engineering excellence.
Supporting Quotes:
Peter Michael Gress, Senior Vice President of Engineering at BASF
“We run some of the largest and most complex process simulations in the chemical industry, which makes it essential to have the right IT infrastructure and applications in place. BASF relies on AspenTech’s aspenONE Process Engineering suite to develop and run world-class operations. By virtualizing the solution, we can more quickly gain insights into plant and equipment behavior to optimize decision making, reduce capital and operating costs, increase engineering efficiency and quality, and accelerate time-to-market.”
Chris Colyer, Microsoft Director of Worldwide Manufacturing Operations
“Our partnership with AspenTech has helped BASF address their enterprise IT challenge of ensuring optimal software performance for their process engineers world-wide. By virtualizing the deployment of the aspenONE suite at BASF we have helped AspenTech and BASF IT Services increase the speed of deployment of aspenONE by more than 50 percent, while reducing software conflicts and risk associated with migrating to new versions.”
Blair Wheeler, Senior Vice President, Marketing, AspenTech
“This initiative reinforces AspenTech’s commitment to make our software easier to deploy and use across the enterprise. The world’s leading process manufacturing companies rely on the powerful optimization functionality of aspenONE, and our partnership with Microsoft enables us to deliver more value to industry-leading manufacturers such as BASF.”
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