Agreement to Leverage Complementary Strengths to Serve the Indian Market
GURGAON, India, January 16, 2012 - Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, and Frontal Software, an industrial IT solutions provider, today announced a partnership agreement allowing the companies to help clients accelerate their adoption of PLM solutions.

PLM is emerging as an important area of investment by manufacturers, with improvements in product development collaboration and time-to-market being the primary drivers. Through its market leading portfolio of open enterprise software solutions, Siemens PLM Software enables organizations and their partners to collaborate through global innovation networks to deliver world-class products and services. Frontal Software has a dedicated PLM practice that offers end-to-end solutions for helping companies manage their engineering processes more efficiently.

Frontal Software’s industry and process expertise will complement Siemens PLM Software’s comprehensive portfolio of solutions to deliver enhanced value to their customers in India. Frontal Software provides a complete spectrum of PLM-related services, from consulting and implementation to migration, installation and training. Siemens PLM Software’s enterprise offerings include Teamcenter® software, the world’s most widely used PLM system, NX™ software, a leading solution for integrated CAD/CAM/CAE, and Tecnomatix® software, the world’s leading digital manufacturing solution.

“We are extending our partnership over the past 25 years with Siemens to include PLM, CAE and digital manufacturing,” said P. S. Sridharan, CEO, Frontal Software. “We are committed to building solutions that help companies manage diverse engineering and production facilities, drive productivity to achieve business goals and enable knowledge enrichment to constantly improve processes. These solutions will help customers eliminate inefficiencies anywhere in their engineering, manufacturing and project execution cycles, and better leverage their past experience.”

“We are pleased to announce our partnership with Frontal Software and look forward to working with them to further enhance the success of our customers here in India,” said Suman Bose, Managing Director, Siemens PLM Software, India. "Siemens PLM Software remains focused, not only on developing innovative solutions for our clients, but on creating partnerships that help streamline clients’ access to those technologies. Frontal Software's industry domain knowledge and vast expertise in providing information solutions to manufacturers will provide significant business value to our clients."

Siemens PLM Software maintains market-leading partnerships with the world's leading consulting and services organizations as a way of providing maximum value to customers. These broad and deep relationships enable PLM strategy alignment to clients’ transformation agendas through business process consulting, deep industry knowledge and domain expertise. Siemens PLM Software’s partnership with Frontal Software will further strengthen its efforts to help customers maximize the return from their PLM investment.