Caterpillar Inc. Signs Five-Year Contract Renewal With ArborText Inc., Reaffirms Long-Term Commitment to ADEPT Software.ANN ARBOR Ann Arbor, city (1990 pop. 109,592), seat of Washtenaw co., S Mich., on the Huron River; inc. 1851. It is a research and educational center, with a large number of government and industrial research and development firms, many in high-technology fields such as , Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 3, 1997--ArborText Inc., the world's leading provider of content creation and management software for enterprise publishing systems, today announced that Caterpillar Inc., the world's number one manufacturer of earth-moving machinery, natural gas engines and industrial gas turbine engines, and a leading supplier of diesel engines, has signed a five-year contract renewal for its use of ArborText's ADEPT-Editor software. Caterpillar's Service Support Department (SSD See solid state disk. ) uses ADEPT-Editor for the creation and management of all operations and service documentation for the company's entire product line. SSD maintains five million pages of English documentation, and produces 800 new pages every business day. All these pages are routinely translated into as many as 14 languages, making Caterpillar the second largest private publisher in its home state of Illinois. Jim Reed, publications coordinator at Caterpillar, said, "ArborText's adaptable, standards-based software has helped make our authoring system more productive and more profitable. We consider ADEPT to be a stable, important and long-term component of our IT infrastructure." Caterpillar originally implemented ADEPT-Editor in November of 1994 as a key component to their newly developed Service Information System (SIS) authoring system. SIS was a major Business Process Reengineering See reengineering. effort designed to dramatically improve the consistency of Caterpillar's information, streamline the authoring process, and make documentation readily available to its customers and technicians in the most timely manner. ADEPT-Editor has been rolled out to 400 concurrent online users in Caterpillar's Peoria, Ill. headquarters, and the company plans to extend the authoring system to remote authors, eventually deploying a global authoring system that also targets plants in Asia and Europe. Jim Sterken, president, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and founder of ArborText, said, "ArborText is committed to delivering long-lasting solutions that satisfy our customers' needs today and in the future. In a time of rapid change within our industry, we are very pleased that Caterpillar sees us as a business partner for the long haul Long distance. Long haul implies traversing a state or a country. Contrast with short haul. ." About Caterpillar Based in Peoria, Ill., Caterpillar (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CAT) is the world's number one manufacturer of earth-moving machinery, natural gas engines and industrial gas turbine engines, and a leading supplier of diesel engines. About the ADEPT Software Series ArborText's ADEPT family of adaptable standards-based software allows users to create and maintain textual and graphic information as reusable re·use tr.v. re·used, re·us·ing, re·us·es To use again, especially after salvaging or special treatment or processing. re·us elements independent of formatting, media, and computer software or hardware. Reusable document elements make document preparation and publication more efficient and effective in a wide variety of applications ranging from technical publications to Web site management. The ADEPT authoring, editing and publishing software is tightly integrated with third party document management software to enable high performance, enterprise-wide knowledge processing solutions. About ArborText Based in Ann Arbor, Mich., ArborText develops and supports software that makes the process of capturing and delivering knowledge more effective. Global 5,000 organizations use the company's products to author, catalog and reuse reuse - Using code developed for one application program in another application. Traditionally achieved using program libraries. Object-oriented programming offers reusability of code via its techniques of inheritance and genericity. information stored in document databases. In production use since 1991, ArborText software is the keystone key·stone n. 1. Architecture The central wedge-shaped stone of an arch that locks its parts together. Also called headstone. 2. The central supporting element of a whole. of high-volume document assembly systems at companies such as Boeing, Digital Equipment Corporation, Ford, Grolier's Encyclopedia, Lockheed Martin For the former company, see . Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. , National Semiconductor, and Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. . For more information about ArborText's products, consulting services Noun 1. consulting service - service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) service - work done by one person or group that benefits another; "budget separately for goods and services" and training programs, contact ArborText at 313/997-0200, send e-mail to info@arbortext.com, or visit the ArborText web-site located at http://www.arbortext.com -0- ADEPT, ADEPT-Editor, ADEPT-Publisher, and ADEPT Command Language are trademarks of ArborText Inc. All other products or service names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. CONTACT: ArborText Inc. PG Bartlett, 313/997-0200 pgb@arbortext.com or Phase Two Strategies Ben Farrell, 415/772-8413 ben_farrell@p2pr.com or Caterpillar Inc. Jim Reed, 309/675-0654 uscat7hl@ibmmail.com |
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