Wonderware Releases New Version of Enterprise Integration App

Software expected to reduce complexity in business-to-manufacturing integration

Lake Forest, CA January 4, 2006 Wonderware, a business unit of Invensys Systems Inc., today announced the release of a new version of its enterprise integration offering designed to reduce the complexity and costs of business-to-manufacturing integration.

Wonderware said its Enterprise Integration Application 2.0 integrates diverse sets of manufacturing systems and business applications to help manufacturers improve operational performance and achieve greater levels of business productivity.

Built on Invensys' innovative ArchestrA software architecture, the Enterprise Integration Application openly sits on top of existing multi-vendor, plant-floor applications such as human-machine interfaces (HMIs), historians or manufacturing execution systems (MES). It then aligns business and manufacturing processes by using workflow functionality and transformation mappings configured in a non-programmatic environment to define reusable and maintainable integration solutions.

"Since the initial release of the Wonderware Enterprise Integration Application in October 2004, we have experienced a surge in demand for the standardized and maintainable approach it represents," explained Claus Madsen Abildgren, Wonderware's program manager for production and performance management software solutions. "Our customers see this application as the key to transitioning from custom integration to affordable B2M interoperability.