AspenTech Announces that BASF is First Customer to Deploy aspenONE

By VSM News Staff
published: Monday, October 06 2008

Long-Time AspenTech Customer BASF Uses Virtualization to Shorten Deployment Time and Accelerate Cost Savings and Performance Improvements from aspenONE.

BURLINGTON, Mass. - October 6, 2008 - Aspen Technology, Inc. (OTC: AZPN.PK) today announced that the first deployment of aspenONE software using Microsoft's SoftGrid Application Virtualization was completed by long-time customer BASF.

• BASF used Microsoft virtualization to accelerate how quickly its worldwide process engineering team can begin using and realizing value from new releases and updates to the aspenONE Process Engineering suite.

• BASF engineers throughout the world have used aspenONE for years to quickly create higher quality process modeling simulations, costing and sizing activities, which improves plant design and optimizes production.
• Now, BASF can achieve additional IT and operational cost savings and faster performance improvements, leveraging Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization.

• Microsoft's virtualization technology decouples applications from operating systems and runs software as network services, making applications available whenever and wherever they are needed even when disconnected from the network.

• aspenONE is the market-leading application suite that enables process manufacturers to implement best practices for optimizing engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain operations.  Earlier this month, AspenTech released aspenONE V7 for Process Engineering, making it easier for process industry companies to adopt the seven best practices of engineering excellence.

Supporting Quotes:

Peter Michael Gress, Senior Vice President of Engineering at BASF

"We run some of the largest and most complex process simulations in the chemical industry, which makes it essential to have the right IT infrastructure and applications in place.  BASF relies on AspenTech's aspenONE Process Engineering suite to develop and run world-class operations.  By virtualizing the solution, we can more quickly gain insights into plant and equipment behavior to optimize decision making, reduce capital and operating costs, increase engineering efficiency and quality, and accelerate time-to-market."