FOR RELEASE Thursday, February 1, 2007
BEIJING and PLANO, Texas– UGS Corp., a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, today announced that Chuck Yuan, vicepresidentand managing directorofGreaterChina Operations for UGS, was honored with ‘Top 10 People in the News,’ and UGS was awarded the PLM Vendor of the Yearby ERPworld.net.at the Top 100 Business Applications 2007 Conference.
“I am honored to receive this award and wish to thank the panel for the industry’s recognition. We will continue to strive for greater development and success,” said Yuan. “UGS is committed to helping Chinese enterprises become more competitiveas they play an increasingly critical role in the evolution of global innovation networks.”
“It is due to the incessant efforts of UGS in China over the past two decades and the active efforts of Mr. Chuck Yuan that PLM witnessed rapid growth in China and demands for PLM products and solutions increased dramatically,”saidDennisJi,appraisal committee memberand CEO of ERPworld.net.
Yuanjoined UGSApril 2005to managesales, after-sales support and customer services, and marketing forUGS in China and Hong Kongand expanded his responsibilities to include Taiwan in 2006. With his expansive knowledge and understanding of the market, he has helped increase thecompetitivenessof UGS in a market of strategic significance to UGS and to the world. Customers of UGS also benefit from Yuan’s leadership. CIO’s ofBeiqi Foton Motor and XujiGroupCorporation, Yang Guotao and Hao Zixian, present customers of UGS, received theTop 10 CIO awardrespectively in the conference.
UGS entered the China market in 1987 and this year marks the 20th anniversary for UGS in China. The company established the first representative office in Beijing in 1990 and set up an R&D center in Shanghai in 2004. UGS has more than 4,000 customers throughoutGreaterChina, such as Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (Group), Chery Automobile, Shenyang Liming Aero-Engine Group Corporation, and Haier Group. UGS also carried out productive strategic cooperation with Chinese universities.
Conference ofTop 100 Business Applications 2007isan annual event in the field of management software initiated by ERP World. It was organized by the Chinese Institute of Electronics, the Software Society of China and other authoritative associations. The awards issued by the conference represent the authoritative view of the industry, therefore attracting great attention from the media and the industry.
About UGS
UGS is a leading global provider of
product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services with
4.3million
licensed seats and 47,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered
in Plano, Texas, UGS’ vision is to enable a world where
organizations and their partners collaborate through global
innovation networks to deliver world-class products and services
while leveraging UGS’ open enterprise solutions, fulfilling
the mission of enabling them to transform their process of
innovation.
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