This initiative will support the entire Valmet Corporation along with their partners and suppliers. The deployment will cover more than 6000 users World-wide.
"Technia, Matrix One and the product eMatrix proved, through an extensive evaluation, to be the right choice for the next generation of eBusiness and Collaboration systems for Valmet Corporation. We will tie together more than 50 Valmet sites and multiple partners and suppliers with this initiative." said Jukka Kallioinen, General Manager PDM and Engineering Systems, Valmet Corporation.
"The global management of machinery information in our installed database is a key factor of success within the Service business. We have tried to solve this problem with different management tools for years. Now I believe that PDM is the technology which will solve this complicated information management challenge." said Reijo Seijesvirta, Vice President Service Development, Valmet Corporation.
"The selected technology will create opportunities to serve our customers quicker, better and with an extended scope of services. We expect this to improve profitability and growth of Valmet businesses and strengthen our position as the technology leader." said Vesa Rommi, Vice President Engineering, Valmet Corporation.
Valmet will enhance their competitiveness in the following areas with the eMatrix solution:
Ability to facilitate integration of new organizations (acquisitions) into the eMatrix environment through extensive flexibility and the possibility to tailor the application while in global operation.
Ability to support Customer Service operations on a global basis.
A platform that will allow better collaboration and business process support in Customer Deliveries with Partners through Internet and Intra/Extranet.
"This is truly a great success and an honor to be awarded this contract from Valmet Corporation, we are sure that this will enable Valmet Corporation to greatly enhance their competitiveness and rapidly deploy new Internet paradigm applications within the eBusiness and Collaborations space." Jonas Gejer, Account Manager, Technia.
"We are absolutely delighted with this partnership with Valmet Corporation. This will further strengthen our position as Number One within the Nordic Market, and will likewise fuel the continued rapid growth of Technia." said Staffan Hanstorp, President, Technia AB.
Jonas Gejer, Technia AB +46 8 477 24 14 , email : jonas.gejer@technia.se
Staffan Hanstorp, Technia AB +46 8 477 24 30, email : staffan.hanstorp@technia.se
Jukka Kallioinen, Valmet Corporation, email : jukka.kallioinen@valmet.com
Metso Corporation's fiber and paper technology business area Valmet is the world's leading supplier of technology, systems and equipment for the pulp, paper, converting and panelboard industries. In 1999, Valmet's net sales was EUR 1.7 billion and it had a personnel of 10,600. For more information about Valmet Corporation, please visit web-site: www.valmet.com.
Metso Corporation is a global supplier of process industry machinery and systems. In addition to fiber and paper technology, Metso Corporation's business areas are automation and control technology and machinery. The net sales of Metso Corporation was EUR 3.4 billion in 1999 and personnel totaled approximately 23,000. Metso Corporation is listed on the Helsinki Exchanges and New York Stock Exchange. For more information about Metso Corporation, please visit web-site: www.metsocorporation.com.
Technia has since the start 1994 grown to be the leading supplier of Internet based Business Collaboration Solutions. Technia focus on e-Business solutions for supporting the entire Product-lifecycle. Technia works with more than 200 Nordic industrial companies. The company is established in Stockholm, Linköping, Helsingfors and Oslo. Technias customer list include companies such as: ABB Switchgear, Valmet Corporation, Alfa Laval, Amersham Pharmacia Biotech, ASSA, Atlas Copco, BT Products, Ericsson, ESAB, MacGregor Cranes ,Nokia, Scania, Seco Tools, Thorsman & Co. For more information about Technia, please visit our homepage, www.technia.com.
The eMatrix product line delivers an open, flexible Internet platform with extensive collaboration services and the ability to incorporate other applications. The growing collection of software offerings provides proven product lifecycle capabilities to feed brick-and-mortar development - from concept and design through manufacture and ongoing service. eMatrix software integrates these product management features with a robust set of adaptive security, access, and business process applications that yield unified control of all enterprise solutions. For more information about eMatrix, please visit Matrix One´s homepage www.matrixone.com