Enterprise Engineer passes 100^th customer milestone!

McLaren Software is proud to announce that Enterprise Engineer has just passed the 100th customer milestone supporting over 75,000 users.  Now in its third major release Enterprise Engineer represents what McLaren believes to be the most mature line of business content application in this emerging segment of the Enterprise Content Management market.

Enterprise Engineer has evolved from its initial release in 2004 to a multi-platform engineering documentation and business process management suite. Comprising of four applications designed to manage engineering (CAD) drawings, engineering project and asset documentation plus transmittal management. Enterprise Engineer has been deployed to solve a variety of customer problems across various industries such as Oil & Gas, Energy & Utilities, Life Sciences, Transportation, Natural resources and Design & Construction including:

We would like to take this opportunity to thank our customers, partners and investors for their continuing support.  Contributing in no small way is the McLaren Customer Advisory board (CAB) which helps shape the McLaren product roadmap by validating and contributing to new products and services. 

Complimenting the McLaren CAB is a newly formed independent IBM / McLaren Customer Working Group, the goal of which is to maximise the IBM / McLaren relationship.

McLaren recently announced Enterprise Engineer Web Services enabling integration with other enterprise applications including SAP and Maximo. Also in this issue we are previewing McLaren Services for Exchange allowing Work Pack approval and review from within Microsoft Outlook 2003 and 2007.  Completing the product announcements is a new version of McLaren Studio providing a more intuitive tool for configuring Enterprise Engineer applications and an update on DocLoader Personal.

As the focus for ECM purchases swings towards line of business applications and many research companies predicting the emergence of CEVAs (Content Enabled Vertical Applications), McLaren continues to build its management expertise with the appointment of the CEO of Sigma Capital (a leading McLaren investor), a former Senior VP of OpenText and Hummingbird and a new CFO to the Board of Directors.  

McLaren has strengthened the Board of Directors with the appointments of Graham Barnet (CEO of Sigma Capital), Jim Fish as CFO and Tony Heywood as a non executive director.

Graham Barnett (CEO of Sigma Capital a lead investor in McLaren) comments: "McLaren represents an exciting investment for Sigma Capital and we are delighted that it is continuing to go from strength to strength despite a difficult environment and also at a time when the market for content applications is set to expand.  McLaren Software has already established itself as the leader of engineering documentation and business process solutions and we at Sigma are pleased to be able to continue to support the team at McLaren."

Tony Heywood formerly an Executive VP with OpenText and Senior VP EMEA Hummingbird brings a wealth of ECM industry knowledge particularly relevant as customer justifications for ECM related investments shifts from IT infrastructure to line of business process applications such as Enterprise Engineer.
See press release

Jim Fish is a chartered accountant with experience working with KPMG in the UK, and PWC in Hong Kong. Jim worked for 11 years at IPC Information Systems, a provider of telecom systems and services, where he was employed as Finance Director, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Managing Director, EMEA and Group CFO

For more information on McLaren Investors Board of Directors and Management Team click here.  

ARC Advisory Group  Asset Lifecycle Management Advisory Service Research to include McLaren Software

The ARC Advisory Group Founded in 1986 has grown to become the thought leader in manufacturing, logistics, and supply chain solutions.  The Asset Lifecycle Management Advisory Service (ALM) research offered by ARC will now include McLaren Software company and product developments. The ALM service aims to provide the intelligence needed by Plant Operators to incorporate the latest developments, industry trends, and best practices into an Asset Lifecycle Management strategy. 

For more information please visit the Asset Lifecycle Management Advisory page on the ARC Advisory Group website: http://www.arcweb.com/Services/Pages/ALM.aspx 

McLaren Services for Exchange enables users to simply manage McLaren Approval and Review Packages without leaving Microsoft Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007. This will be particularly attractive to users who are typically required to review or approve documentation packages, but who are not involved in their creation.

For more information visit McLaren Services for Exchange.
See a 5 min demo of Completing workflow tasks directly from Microsoft Outlook.
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Electronic Work Packages - The art of engineering document management (30 minute recorded webinar)  

Release of Enterprise Engineer Web Services

The availability of Enterprise Engineer Web Services enables the integration of Enterprise Engineer with enterprise applications to satisfy the growing demand to integrate content and data management applications to provide richer customer solutions.

Enterprise Engineer Web Services include;

• McLaren Search Service to provide the ability for SAP^TM and Maximo^TM  users to search for specific documentation managed by Enterprise Engineer
• McLaren Simple Object Service allows an external application to automatically create objects (i.e. documents) managed by Enterprise Engineer within either an EMC - Documentum^TM or IBM - FileNet P8^TM repository.
• The McLaren Java Class Data Provider allows the creation of a custom Java class to populate Enterprise Engineer dynamic dialogs with data from an external source, such as a file, database or web service.

If you would like to learn more visit Enterprise Engineer Web Services. 

DocLoader is back, and this time it's personal!

DocLoader has been one of McLaren’s signature products since its initial release in 1997, and has become one of the most popular bulk and batch loading applications for the EMC Documentum platform. The latest release supports EMC Documentum 6.5 SP1, and is available in two editions.

• DocLoader Project – for bulk loading documents and metadata, with a maximum capacity of 65,000 per run.
• DocLoader Personal –allows individual users to share the same configuration sheets as DocLoader Project to ensure consistent loading and classification.

For more information, on-line demonstrations, evaluation copies visit the DocLoader pages, or contact McLaren at sales@mclarensoftware.com for pricing. 

McLaren become an IBM ECM ValueNet Technology Partner

McLaren have entered into a new agreement with IBM by becoming an IBM ECM ValueNet Technology Partner. This new agreement provides McLaren with higher levels of support and product information to ensure continued compatibility between Enterprise Engineer and IBM FileNet P8. 

Formation of the IBM / McLaren Customer Working Group
Complimenting the McLaren Customer Advisory Board (CAB) an independent McLaren / IBM – FileNet User Group has been formed to maximize the customer benefits and support of the McLaren / IBM partnership.  For more information or if you represent a McLaren / IBM customer and are interested in joining the group please contact
Greg VanWormer of Weyerhaeuser – email:  Greg.VanWormer@Weyerhaeuser.com

For more IBM information visit our McLaren Technology Partners page. 

Blumark PTY Ltd - Australia: The Latest McLaren Reseller

Blumark headquartered in Brisbane, Australia with offices in Sydney and Melbourne are the latest addition to the growing number of McLaren Enterprise Engineer reseller partners. With customers throughout the Asia-Pacific region Blumark are specialists in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and process improvement targeting the engineering, utilities, resource and construction sectors.

Blumark's Managing Director, Mark Grimes says, "McLaren Software fits with our philosophy to bring "best of breed" solutions to market from leading vendors in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) to the market. I see the McLaren Enterprise Engineer suite as being at the forefront of innovation in the engineering document management space and Blumark is pleased to represent McLaren in the Asia-Pacific region.

Enterprise Engineer ECM platform Support Update

A large proportion of McLaren’s development is focused on certifying McLaren Software products on all supported ECM platforms, operating systems, databases and authoring applications to ensure compatibility, ease of installation and support.

A full platform and application support matrix is available from the McLaren support website while a frequently asked question regards specific version support for Enterprise Engineer and the EMC and IBM ECM platform products is as follows:

• EMC Documentum 5.3 through to D6.5 SP1
• IBM FileNet P8 3.5.1 through to 4.5 

Wednesday 15th April 2009 - 30 min webinar

Transmittals Management:
A proven solution for EMC Documentum and IBM FileNet P8 ECM Platforms
Controlled creation and distribution of engineering documentation between internal and external parties

Enterprise Engineer for Transmittals, a member of the Enterprise Engineer family of engineering documentation and process management applications, enables the controlled creation and secure two-way distribution of engineering documentation to internal project teams, remote team members and external parties.   
This 30 minute webinar will show how Enterprise Engineer for Transmittals:

• Reduces risk by providing an audit trail of collaboration with third parties so you know what has been sent, to whom and when.
• Saves time, money and effort by minimizing the manual tasks involved in managing the sending and receiving of documents to and from third parties.
• Controls the exchange of documentation between internal project teams and external suppliers including contractor’s participation in the design, review and approval cycle.
• Delivers full auditing capability, and comprehensive reporting at a transmittal / submittal, document, and recipient level.
  

Seattle April 2nd
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Austin Texas 23, 24th April
Atlanta 7th, 8th May

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