Latest Enhancements to AVEVA Plant Deliver Immediate and Measurable User Benefits

    CAMBRIDGE, England, July 29 /CNW/ - AVEVA (LSE:AVV) today announces
further enhancements to its AVEVA Plant portfolio, with significant
improvements to AVEVA PDMS, AVEVA Global and all of its schematics products.
    Notable improvements have been made to AVEVA PDMS and AVEVA Global,
further extending AVEVA's technology leadership in 3D plant design and
multi-site project execution.
    This latest release introduces numerous new and improved capabilities,
many of which are as a result of consultation with AVEVA customers.
    One of the major enhancements is the ability of AVEVA PDMS users to
openly share data with users of AVEVA Outfitting, part of the AVEVA Marine
portfolio, in even the most complex and demanding global projects. Customers
involved in any part of the offshore oil & gas or marine industries will
benefit from greatly enhanced standardisation across their projects coupled
with increased flexibility in the way they work with their project partners.
    The new version of AVEVA Global, AVEVA's unique technology for managing
multi-project execution, receives many enhancements, including new compression
technology that further reduces band-width and network availability
requirements.
    All of the schematic products within AVEVA Plant have also received major
updates, and a new product, AVEVA Diagrams, has been added to the Plant
portfolio.
    AVEVA VPE P&ID has been extensively upgraded and is renamed AVEVA P&ID at
this release. Still integrated with AVEVA VPE Workbench, AVEVA P&ID is now a
fully object-centric, AutoCAD-based application, employing Microsoft .NET
technology, and capable of integration with AVEVA's Dabacon database via AVEVA
P&ID Manager. The latest version is an excellent illustration of AVEVA's
policy of Continual Progression; providing customers with increasing
capabilities and flexibility while ensuring full upwards compatibility of
their existing design data.
    AVEVA Diagrams is a powerful tool for creating P&IDs and HVAC diagrams,
with an intuitive Microsoft Visio user interface, for users whose priority is
direct interaction with the schematic model database. Already a popular
element of AVEVA Marine, it has been upgraded and introduced to the plant
portfolio, reflecting the progressively closer integration of these two
product families.
    AVEVA P&ID and AVEVA Diagrams are two complementary products, providing
customers with freedom to choose their preferred solution. P&ID drawings and
data from both of these products, and from a number of third party P&ID
systems can be consistency checked against the 3D PDMS model using the latest
AVEVA Schematic 3D Integrator.
    This new release of the AVEVA Plant portfolio also includes the latest
update to the new AVEVA Instrumentation product, which is a feature-rich suite
of integrated applications for the efficient specification, design and
maintenance of all plant instrumentation and control systems.
    Bruce Douglas, AVEVA's Vice President Marketing and Product Strategy,
said: "AVEVA Plant is an integrated set of engineering and design applications
for the process plant and power industries. It allows engineers and designers
on multiple sites to work together, in the most productive and risk-free way.
These latest upgrades make them even more productive and further extends our
leadership in many areas."
    Richard Longdon, CEO of AVEVA said: "At every new product release, AVEVA
pushes out the boundaries of what it is possible to achieve in the plant
engineering industries. These latest upgrades will deliver immediate,
measurable benefits to our customers, increase their capabilities, and
increase our technology leadership."
    For more information on AVEVA Plant see the website at
http://www.aveva.com/plant

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For further information: Alison Patey, Marketing Communications Manager,
AVEVA, Tel: +44-1223-556653, alison.patey@aveva.com