Industry Analyst Firm Recognizes Technology Innovation and Resulting Customer Benefits
LAKE FOREST, Calif., May 20, 2004 -- Invensys and its Wonderware business unit today received top honors in the industrial automation industry from Frost & Sullivan. Invensys received the "Industrial Automation Technology of the Year" award for its groundbreaking ArchestrA industrial automation and information software architecture. Wonderware accepted the "Customer Value Leadership" award, which recognizes Wonderware's excellence in consistently delivering customer value within the industry through its products and services.
"Invensys and Wonderware have consistently demonstrated their leadership and technological innovation by providing applications that enable customers to significantly increase productivity from their manufacturing assets," said Sath Rao, team leader for Industrial Automation. "Both are being recognized for their achievements in introducing technology that positively impacts the industrial automation marketplace." Frost & Sullivan noted that Invensys has acted as an industry visionary with its delivery of customer-winning products and solutions based on ArchestrA technology.
The ArchestrA software architecture significantly reduces total cost of ownership by providing a single, comprehensive toolkit for the entire range of plant automation and information application requirements along with the ability to rapidly reuse and deploy best engineering practices." Using the ArchestrA architecture's integrated development environment, customers have already seen the benefits of a cohesive, integrated automation and information system with reduced engineering costs, reduced project lifecycle costs and the ability to integrate diverse global manufacturing resources," Rao said.
"After an extensive survey of user needs, Invensys looked into the future and took the bold step to develop a comprehensive software architecture based on Microsoft® technologies including .NET to provide a 'future-proof' applications platform called the ArchestrA architecture." The "Customer Value Leadership" award acknowledges Wonderware's success in consistently providing innovative products that offer customers added value and lower total cost of ownership. The market research firm noted that Wonderware customers have reported satisfaction levels between 90 and 95 percent, and Wonderware software has helped reduce its customers' operating costs by 30 to 70 percent.
"Wonderware's robust FactorySuite A² offerings can integrate a wide variety of plant operations at a very competitive price, without compromising quality," Rao said. "Wonderware's commitment to offering its customers open integration between virtually all plant systems and applications, decreasing total cost of ownership with superior engineering toolsets, and providing innovative products and superior customer service makes Wonderware the rightful recipient of this award." Wonderware and Invensys were honored at the Frost & Sullivan awards banquet on May 19 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Miami.
"Frost & Sullivan's recognition of Wonderware's FactorySuite A² product family and the embedded ArchestrA software architecture acknowledges our ongoing commitment to develop and market integrated technologies specifically designed to support our customers' strategic business improvement and decision-making processes," said Mark Davidson, vice president of global marketing for the Wonderware and ArchestrA business units of Invensys. "We are honored both by the recognition of this award and by the rapid customer adoption of these innovative software and solutions approaches. We continue our focus on business performance acceleration and investments in our customers, as that is the key to remaining at the forefront of the industrial software marketplace."
The Frost & Sullivan awards join other honors Wonderware has received this year. These include Control Engineering magazine's selection of the Industrial Application Server product for its 2003 "Editors' Choice Award" and first place in the HMI and SCADA software categories as part of Control magazine's 2004 "Readers' Choice Awards."
About the Wonderware and ArchestrA Business Units
Wonderware and ArchestrA are business units of Invensys Systems, Inc. Wonderware is the world's leading supplier of industrial automation and information software. Founded in 1987, Wonderware pioneered the use of the Microsoft Windows operating system in HMI automation software for manufacturing operation systems. Wonderware software powers intelligent plant decisions in real time.
The hallmark of the ArchestrA technology is: "Every system in your plant, working in concert." Based in Lake Forest, Calif., the Wonderware and ArchestrA business units have regional sales and development offices throughout the North American, European, Latin American and Asia-Pacific regions to provide support to its network of more than 160 distributor offices. Wonderware has approximately 300,000 software licenses in approximately 100,000 plants worldwide, which is about 30 percent of the world's 335,000 plants with 20 or more employees.
For more information, visit www.wonderware.com or www.archestra.biz .
About Invensys
Invensys is a global automation, controls and process solutions group. Products, services, expertise and ongoing support enable intelligent systems to monitor and control processes in many different environments. The businesses within Invensys help customers in a variety of industries perform with greater efficiency, safety and cost-effectiveness. Industry areas of focus include hydrocarbons, chemicals, oil and gas, power and utilities, rail, telecommunications, paper, food and beverage, dairy, pharmaceuticals and personal care. Process Systems provides products, services and solutions for the automation and optimization of plant operation in the process industries.
Featuring industry-leading brands such as Foxboro, Triconex, SimSci-Esscor, Wonderware and Marcam, Process Systems occupies a top-tier position in the DCS, safety, simulation and HMI markets. Products are installed in more than 100,000 plants worldwide. Serving process and batch industries, including hydrocarbons, chemicals, power and utilities and metals and mining, and also the discrete and hybrid manufacturing sectors, Process Systems is at the forefront of technological innovation, with new award-winning technologies such as ArchestrA, Digital Coriolis and DolPhin. Also within the Invensys Group, APV specializes in process equipment engineered into systems and asset services for food, beverage, personal care, pharmaceutical and chemical clients.
Eurotherm is a leading supplier of control and measurement instrumentation solutions and services to industrial and process customers. Rail Systems is a multinational leader in the design, manufacture, supply, installation, commissioning and maintenance of safety-related rail signaling and control systems. Climate Controls is a major provider of the components, systems and services used globally to make commercial and residential environments safer, more comfortable and more efficient.
Appliance Controls has the broadest system and component offering for the appliance industry worldwide.The Invensys Group is headquartered in the U.K. and listed on the London Stock Exchange. With 39,000 employees operating in 60 countries, Invensys helps customers to improve their performance and profitability, building value for end users and shareholders alike.
For more information, visit www.invensys.com .
