BAE Systems Using Roadmapping Software to Enhance Strategic Technology, Product Capabilities Planning
Company Deploys Alignent Vision Strategist Software to Bolster Roadmapping Efforts
Carlsbad, California - June 9, 2006 - Alignent Software, the leading provider of collaborative roadmapping solutions, today announced BAE Systems has selected Alignent's Vision Strategist to develop a database of capability and technology roadmaps to enhance the company's research and development capabilities and technology developments. Through the process of roadmapping, BAE Systems' Platform Solutions unit will map future program needs to current and planned capabilities and technology requirements.
"Using Vision Strategist, we can improve technology planning by improving our ability to identify and develop technologies that meet our customers' safety and mission requirements," said Dr. Jim Wasson, chief technology officer for the Platform Solutions business in Johnson City, N.Y. "By sharing roadmaps, we will have greater visibility into R&D programs and better understand how technologies, products, and capabilities are linked."
BAE Systems is the premier trans-Atlantic defense and aerospace company, delivering a full range of products and services for air, land, and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, information technology solutions, and customer support services. BAE Systems, with more than 100,000 employees worldwide, had 2005 sales that exceeded $28 billion.
About Alignent Software
Alignent is the first and only software company to support the powerful process of roadmapping. Alignent's solutions dynamically connect product and technology planning across the company, empowering organizations to visualize, manage and communicate future directions within a single system. Alignent focuses R&D efforts, fosters cross-functional collaboration and aligns people around a unified plan of record that adapts in real-time to empower accurate, timely business decisions. The world's most sophisticated product and technology planners rely on Alignent, including BAE Systems, Corning, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Medtronic, Motorola, Philips, Textron, the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy.
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