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Alignent is the first and only software system to support the powerful process of roadmapping. Alignent's software is designed to make the roadmapping process easy by bringing future market, product and technology information together in one single system.
Companies of all sizes—across all levels of roadmapping sophistication—rely on Alignent to bring discipline and rigor to the technology and product planning process. With Alignent, customers have witnessed dramatic improvements in their ability to synchronize
R&D efforts, foster cross-functional collaboration and make more accurate, timely business decisions.
Leading organizations rely on Alignent to enable better decision-making about the future, including Boeing, BAE Systems, Corning, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Medtronic, Motorola, Philips, Textron, the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy.
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BAE Systems, a leading manufacturer of military aircraft, surface ships, submarines and other defense products, relies on Alignent to develop roadmaps that coordinate program pursuits with capability requirements and technology developments. BAE has standardized on Alignent in both North America and the U.K.
Boeing is the world's leading aerospace company and the largest combined manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft combined. Boeing relies on Alignent to drive business strategy across the entire enterprise, using roadmaps to assist with the strategic planning processes and ensure tight communications between business units across 145 countries.
Corning, a global leader in high-technology materials development, relies on Alignent to create roadmaps to obtain insight into customer needs and also to align its
R&D and new product development sectors. Although most widely used in the Display Technologies division, Alignent's products touch every one of Corning's business units.
Honeywell, a $25 billion diversified technology and manufacturing leader, relies on Alignent to build sophisticated roadmaps to identify gaps and opportunities to maximize product and technology re-use. Alignent's roadmapping solutions have been adopted by Honeywell company-wide—across every business unit—including strategic planning, annual operating plan, new product introduction, design for Six Sigma and management resource review.
Itron, a leading technology provider and critical source of knowledge to the global energy and water industries, uses Alignent in both the hardware and software divisions. In the software division, Vision Strategist is employed to create provider roadmaps, allowing the organization to map its software to releases with other IT partner organizations, such as Microsoft and Oracle to ensure continuous operability with Itron's hardware. The hardware division uses Alignent's solutions to create technology and product roadmaps outlining future product development.
The Applied Physics Laboratory, a division of The Johns Hopkins University, is a not-for-profit research and development organization dedicated to solving complex problems that present critical challenges to the nation. The organization uses Alignent Software products in its efforts to support government agencies including the Department of Defense and NASA.
Lockheed Martin, a global enterprise principally engaged in advanced technology systems, products and services, has standardized on Alignent to create a living technology planning document that minimizes information silos among the various communities within the organization. The company also uses roadmaps to reduce complexity issues and gain more visibility into the marketplace. Both Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems & Sensors and Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company have standardized on Alignent for all of their diverse roadmapping needs.
Alignent currently serves two Medtronic divisions. The Medtronic Microelectronics Center's technology team relies on the solutions to develop capability and technology roadmaps that aid in the development of integrated circuits, foundry services and custom microelectronics. In the Cardiac Rhythm Management division, the organization creates roadmaps that aid in the development of new heart implant technologies.
One of the first companies to adopt and popularize roadmaps, Motorola has standardized on Alignent's solutions to drive product planning efforts across distributed business units, customers and suppliers. Motorola relies on Alignent's collaborative solutions to create company-wide roadmaps and drive strategic planning activities.
NAVAIR (Naval Air Systems Command) provides maritime combat power to the United States Navy and Marine Corps. NAVAIR relies on Alignent to track naval aviation technologies that encourage future investments, increase supplier collaboration and improve decision making. The organization uses Alignent software to align the industry and its agencies toward present and future naval aviation objectives.
The PRIME Faraday Partnership, the first of four Faraday Partnerships launched by the UK Government to assist industries throughout the UK, uses Alignent's solutions to create technology roadmaps that drive its technology watch, provide technical and market reports targeted at UK businesses and feed into the organization's long-term strategy. The Partnership focuses its skills on the design and development of Products with Interdependent Mechanical and Electronic parts (PRIME).
Sandia National Laboratories, which partners with the United States Air Force and other branches of the military, relies on Alignent's roadmaps to drive technology developments for various national security projects through 2015 and beyond. The roadmaps provide the engineers at Sandia with a means to visualize technology evolution and plan for the future.
Textron, one of America's largest multi-industry companies, uses Alignent to create technology roadmaps and capabilities roadmaps, with the ultimate goal of linking product plans to the overall strategic plans formulated at the highest level. Alignent's solutions touch the entire organization, aligning the geographically dispersed divisions into a single planning system.
The Air Force Flight Test Center, based out of Edwards Air Force Base in California, chose Alignent to create roadmaps that support its ground-and flight-test efforts. The Air Force uses roadmaps across technical disciplines to drive technical requirements and operational impacts, estimate long-term impacts of financial decisions, and to link program management processes with strategic vision.
The U.S. Navy's Naval Surface Warfare Center at Crane Naval Base, relies on Alignent to create roadmaps from both a top-down and bottoms-up perspective. From the top-down perspective, roadmaps are used to establish baseline capabilities and map surface ship logistics and maintenance. From the bottoms-up perspective, roadmaps are developed to provide support to external customers. Alignent is the standard system for creating roadmaps across command and control, combat identification, solid state RF devices, wireless, electronic warfare, fuel cell development and directed energy weapons.
The U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), based out of MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, uses Alignent's solutions to create roadmaps to plan for future technological evolution. The USSOCOM uses Alignent to map future capabilities needed by the armed forces, and then to plan
R&D development efforts to meet those criteria.
