Compaq and Rand Worldwide Form Alliance to Offer Complete Windows NT-based Hardware, Software and Services Solutions for Design Engineers.CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 1998-- Companies Team Up to Bundle Pro/ENGINEER Solutions on Compaq Professional Workstations and Compaq Armada Portables for SMB (1) (Small to Medium-sized Business) Also called "SME" (small to medium-sized enterprise), it refers to companies that are larger than the small office/home office (SOHO), but not huge. Customers Compaq Computer Corporation (company) Compaq Computer Corporation - The largest US manufacturer and vendor of IBM PC compatible personal computers and servers. Compaq was started in 1982 by three ex-Texas Instruments employees. Quarterly sales $2499M, profits $210M (Aug 1994). http://compaq.com/. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CPQ CPQ Compaq CPQ Conseil du Patronat du Québec (Canada) CPQ Configure-Price-Quote CPQ Conseil de Presse du Québec (Québec Press Council, Canada) CPQ Companion Parrot Quarterly ), a leading supplier of Windows NT-based workstations and the world's leader in innovative notebook PCs, and Rand A Technology Corporation (Rand Worldwide), (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :RND RND Round RND Random RND Research and Development RND Red Nose Day RND Rassemblement National Démocratique (French: Democratic National Rally; political party, various countries) RND Royal Naval Division ), the world's largest value-added reseller A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. of mechanical computer-aided design computer-aided design (CAD) or computer-aided design and drafting (CADD), form of automation that helps designers prepare drawings, specifications, parts lists, and other design-related elements using special graphics- and calculations-intensive , manufacturing and engineering solutions, today announced worldwide that Compaq has authorized Rand Worldwide as a Technical Systems Integrator and U.S. Channel Partner. The companies also announced that, through this unique partnership, Compaq and Rand Worldwide will provide customers with complete enterprise solutions that encompass software, hardware, technical services and financing. These ready-to-run solutions will provide the companies' mutual small and medium business (SMB) customers with everything they need for faster time-to-solution in their design engineering environments, without having to spend a bundle, and all from a single source. This relationship will enable Rand to provide Compaq's line of Professional Workstations bundled with Pro/ENGINEER (Pro/E) software for resale via Rand authorized value added resellers to reach more technical engineering professionals. The first fruits of this new relationship leverage Rand's exclusive Master Distributor Agreement with Parametric Technology Corporation |Parametric Technology Corporation]] Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC)(NASDAQ: PMTC) provides Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) engineering CAD/CAM software and content management and dynamic publishing solutions to more than 40,000 companies worldwide. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :PMTC PMTC Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (of HIV/AIDS) PMTC Pacific Missile Test Center PMTC Professional Multimedia Test Center ) to deliver an exclusive line of Rand Power Team Professional Design Solutions targeted toward SMB customers. These solutions, entitled the "Rand Power Team," "Rand Power Team Plus" and "Rand Power Team Portable" combine Compaq's Professional Workstation AP500 or SP700 or the Compaq Armada 7800 notebook PC with Parametric Technology's Pro/ENGINEER-Foundation software and Rand Worldwide's complementary mechanical design automation tool ModelCHECK. "Rand Worldwide is committed to providing the world's best and most cost-efficient mechanical design automation solutions to our customers," said Brian Semkiw, Chief Executive Officer of Rand Worldwide. "By combining Compaq's leading-edge workstation technology and programs with Rand's expertise in selling to and servicing this market, we will meet our goal of providing a highly differentiated workstation solution that is simple, affordable and easy to implement." "Through our new relationship, Compaq is able to leverage the uncompromising performance of Compaq Professional Workstations and the powerful Compaq Armada 7800 with Rand Worldwide's software and services expertise to deliver complete engineering solutions to our mutual customers," said David Parsons, Director of Workstation Marketing, North America, Compaq Computer Corporation. "Compaq and Rand have created powerful, optimized and ready-to-run solutions for the design engineering environment that provide everything a customer needs for intelligent product modeling, while providing the flexibility, affordability and financing options that are vital to a SMB organization." "Today marks an important point in the evolution of these two dynamic companies' business models," said Gary Klembara, National Director, System Integrators, Compaq North America. "By combining the technology and expertise of Rand and Compaq, we are creating a new distribution model that will revolutionize the way state-of-the-art design and engineering solutions are delivered to the market." The Rand Power Team Solution The Rand Power Team solution includes Parametric's Pro/ENGINEER and Rand's ModelCHECK software pre-configured on the Compaq Professional Workstation. The specific configuration of the Professional Workstation AP500 for the Rand Power Team solution includes a 450 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. Pentium II processor, a 19-inch monitor, 128 MB of SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) A type of dynamic RAM (DRAM) memory chip that has been widely used since the late 1990s. SDRAM chips eliminated wait states by dividing the chip into two cell blocks and interleaving data between them. , 4 GB hard drive and the ELSA GLoria Synergy+ graphics option. The Rand Power Team Plus Solution The Rand Power Team Plus solution includes Parametric's Pro/ENGINEER and Rand's ModelCHECK software pre-configured on the new Compaq Professional Workstation SP700. For the Rand Power Team Plus Solution, Compaq's Professional Workstation SP700 is powered by the 450MHz Pentium II Xeon (processor) Pentium II Xeon - The successor to Intel Corporation's Pentium II processor. The Xeon has the same P6 core as existing Pentium Pro/Pentium II units, but it supports a 100 MHz system bus and offers as much as 2 MB of level 2 cache. http://intel. processor and con-figured with a 21-inch monitor, 256 MB of SDRAM, a 9 GB 10,000 rpm hard drive and Compaq's new PowerStorm 300 graphics option. Compaq's SP700 is designed to deliver performance through the system with the Highly Parallel System Architecture (HPSA HPSA Health Professional Shortage Area HPSA Highly Parallel System Architecture HPSA Hydromatic Pump Selection Assistant ). The HPSA provides unmatched memory and I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output bandwidth (twice the bandwidth of traditional Windows NT-based workstations) and fast throughput to ensure the highest levels of applications performance on an industry-standard architecture. Graphics performance is another strong suit for the Rand Power Team Plus solution. Compaq's PowerStorm 300 graphics option is a full-featured 3D graphics board with 15 MB of 3D-RAM See dynamic RAM. for frame buffer and Z-buffer and 16 MB of CDRAM (Cached DRAM) A high-speed DRAM memory chip developed by Mitsubishi that includes a small SRAM cache. for fast texture buffering. The PowerStorm 300 delivers excellent midrange 3D graphics performance for professionals that work in demanding, true-color environments. The Rand Power Team Portable Solution The Rand Power Team Portable solution includes Parametric's Pro/ENGINEER software and Rand Worldwide's ModelCHECK software pre-configured on the Compaq Armada 7800. The Armada 7800 includes an Intel Mobile Pentium II processor 300 MHz; a brilliant, high-resolution, 14.1-inch color TFT (Thin Film Transistor) The term typically refers to active matrix screens on laptop computers. Active matrix LCD provides a sharper screen display and broader viewing angle than does passive matrix. See LCD and thin film. TFT - Thin Film transistor display; 128 MB of SDRAM; an 8 GB SMART hard drive; an S3 ViRGE/MX graphics controller on a 66 MHz Accelerated Graphic Port (AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) A high-speed 32-bit port from Intel for attaching a display adapter to a PC. It provides a direct connection between the card and memory, and only one AGP slot is on the motherboard. ) bus and a Netelligent 10/100 TX network interface controller. Each of these solutions provide customers with the flexibility to add hardware options such as processors and memory or software extensions to Pro/ENGINEER-Foundation. Additionally, customers can take advantage of Rand Worldwide's software productivity tools, consulting, training, installation and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services . Pro/ENGINEER-Foundation is the starting point for all Pro/ENGINEER Solutions and contains powerful capabilities to create both solid and sheet metal components, build assemblies, design weldments and create fully documented production drawings. In addition, the foundation package offers extensive industry-standard and direct data exchange translators to reuse and share engineering data. Pro/ENGINEER-Foundation offers intelligent product modeling, consisting of intuitive parametric features that capture design intent and react predictably to change. This enables rapid exploration of multiple design alternatives -- all in a logical engineering environment. Full associativity guarantees the propagation of design changes throughout the entire system -- providing updated deliverables such as assemblies, drawings, BOMs and the ability to extend capabilities to drive downstream deliverables such as simulation, routing and production applications. ModelCHECK is a software productivity tool that evaluates parts, drawings and assemblies and recommends proper Pro/ENGINEER modeling techniques. ModelCHECK imposes the use of standard design practices to improve the effectiveness of downstream users and design reuse. Based on modern Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. technology, the fully customizable tool also provides valuable online expert modeling advice. Pricing and Availability These solutions are available exclusively from Rand Worldwide from October 27, 1998, through March 31, 1999. Pricing starts at $9,995 for the Power Team Solution, $13,095 for the Power Team Plus Solution, and $12,495 for the Power Team Portable Solution. All Rand Power Team Professional Design solutions are available through the end of March 1999. Customers can take advantage of attractive try-and-buy and competitive trade-in programs as well as flexible leasing options via Compaq Capital for cash-constrained SMB customers. For more information customers can visit Compaq's Web site at http://www.compaq.com/products/workstations/promos/ design.html or to order any of these powerful solutions, customers can call 1-800-625-RAND. Company Backgrounds Founded in 1982, Compaq Computer Corporation is a Fortune Global 100 company. Compaq is the second largest computer company in the world and the largest global supplier of personal computers. Compaq develops and markets hardware, software, solutions, and services, including industry-leading enterprise computing solutions, fault-tolerant business-critical solutions, networking and communication products, commercial desktop and portable products and consumer PCs. The company is an industry leader in environmentally friendly programs and business practices. Compaq products are sold and supported in more than 100 countries through a network of authorized Compaq marketing partners. Customer support and information about Compaq and its products are available at http://www.compaq.com. Rand Worldwide is the world's largest Value Added Reseller of mechanical design automation tools and services. The Company provides computer aided design (application) Computer Aided Design - (CAD) The part of CAE concerning the drawing or physical layout steps of engineering design. Often found in the phrase "CAD/CAM" for ".. manufacturing". , manufacturing, engineering and product data management (CAD/CAM/CAE/PDM) solutions to manufacturers of mechanical products. These tools help our customers become more competitive and profitable through reducing new product development costs and accelerating the time to bring their new products to market. In addition to CAD/CAM/CAE/PDM automation tools, the Company also offers training and support services, hardware and integration services and a comprehensive list of additional engineering related services. Rand Worldwide offers companies in every industry the advantage of purchasing a total solution encompassing software, hardware and services. The Company and its subsidiaries operate more than 75 sales and customer service centers throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Rand Worldwide can be reached through the Internet at HYPERLINK http://www.rand.com http://www.rand.com . Compaq, Registered U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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