More than 350 delegates from 38 countries saw how AVEVA is ‘Defining the Future’
Cambridge, UK – 18 October 2012: AVEVA today announced the outstanding success of its first global AVEVA World Summit, held in Paris 10-12 October. Over 350 AVEVA customer and partner delegates attended from 38 countries and gave an enthusiastic reception to the announcement and demonstration of AVEVA Everything3D (AVEVA E3D) and AVEVA Enterprise Resource Management (AVEVA ERM).
“The summit theme this year was ‘Defining the Future’, said Richard Longdon (right), CEO, AVEVA. “The new AVEVA E3D and AVEVA ERM, represent major new initiatives for AVEVA and demonstrate our continuing commitment to increasing our customers’ business performance and further extending AVEVA’s technology leadership. The Summit also gave us the opportunity to introduce our customers to other new projects which exploit mobile and cloud computing technology.
“This is a big year for AVEVA and the Summit was a great way to celebrate our first 45 years of sustained growth with the people who helped to make AVEVA so successful – our customers. We intend to repeat this successful global event format next year and I look forward to seeing everyone again at the AVEVA World Summit in 2013.”
The Keynote speakers for the 2012 event were Shell and Microsoft. Shell shared their 25-year history with AVEVA and described the very impressive evolution of the deep-water offshore oil & gas industry in the Gulf of Mexico. Microsoft focused on its technology relationship with AVEVA and the development of solutions based on cloud, mobile and connected devices.
The Summit included high-quality customer presentations and project case studies on a wide range of subjects from companies including Jacobs, Samsung Heavy Industries, AMEC, Worley Parsons, Petrofac, Guangxin Shipbuilding, Lockheed Martin and Technip. AVEVA executives presented new technologies, roadmaps and product updates, including those resulting from the recent acquisition of bocad.
AVEVA has a long and proud tradition of hosting high-quality technical and business events for existing and future customers, both internationally and at a local level. Visit www.avevaworld.com to learn more.
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AVEVA is a leader in engineering design and information management solutions for the plant, power and marine industries. For more than 45 years, it has delivered business critical software solutions to owner operators, engineering contractors and shipbuilders around the world. For further information please visit www.aveva.com/ednotes.