Amtec Announces Corporate Name Change; Tecplot, Inc. New Name of Data Visualization Software Developer.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 12, 2003 Amtec Engineering, Inc., a data visualization See information visualization. software developer, today announced that it will be changing its corporate name to Tecplot, Inc., effective December 1. The company's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Tecplot, was first released in 1987. Research has indicated that the company is more widely known in the engineering and scientific marketplace by its product name (Tecplot) than by its former corporate name (Amtec). "In addition to the strong name recognition of Tecplot by our target market, we also chose to rename Re`name´ v. t. 1. To give a new name to. Verb 1. rename - assign a new name to; "Many streets in the former East Germany were renamed in 1990" our company to more clearly communicate our overall strategy of expanding the Tecplot product family," said Mike Peery, the president and chief executive officer of Tecplot, Inc. "We currently have products for general engineering, application development, and reservoir simulation Reservoir simulation is an area of reservoir engineering in which computer models are used to predict the flow of fluids (typically, oil, water, and gas) through porous media. . Our strategy is to develop and release additional data visualization products under the Tecplot umbrella." Three products currently comprise the Tecplot product family: Tecplot, a technical plotting software package with extensive XY, 2- and 3-D capabilities for visualizing data from analyses, simulations and experiments; Tecplot Edge, a customizable version of Tecplot that can be easily integrated with third-party applications allowing developers to quickly add plotting, graphing and advanced data visualization functionality to their own applications; and Tecplot RS (Reservoir Simulation), an integrated plotting environment designed specifically for oil reservoir An oil reservoir, petroleum system or petroleum reservoir is often thought of as being an underground "lake" of oil, but it is actually composed of hydrocarbons contained in porous rock formations. modeling. Another member of the Tecplot product family is the newly-revamped Tecplot Solution Services, an internal group of consultants and software engineers that provides fee-based application development, visualization research and customization services on behalf of Tecplot customers. About Tecplot, Inc. Founded in 1981, Tecplot, Inc. delivers visualization software for engineers and scientists to analyze, discover, and communicate results. In 1988, the company launched Tecplot, its first software product for the scientific visualization scientific visualization Process of graphically displaying real or simulated scientific data. It is a vital procedure in the creative realization of scientific ideas, particularly in computer science. market. Since then, Tecplot, Inc. has been applying and influencing the latest advances in plotting capabilities, and Tecplot has become the visualization tool of choice for over 30,000 engineers and scientists around the world. Editor's Notes Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : Tecplot is a trademark of Tecplot, Inc., registered in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. Patent & Trademark Office. All other product or company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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