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McLaren Software Chosen as Medalist in BCS IT Professional Awards; Enterprise Engineer Software Recognized for Ability to Standardize Engineering Processes.


HOUSTON -- McLaren Software, a leading independent software vendor specializing in engineering-centric intellectual-work-management applications has been named a medalist in the applications category of the British Computer Society Established in 1957, The British Computer Society (BCS) is a body that represents those working in Information and Communications Technology ICT. It is the largest United Kingdom-based professional body for computing.  (BCS (1) (The British Computer Society, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, www.bcs.org) The chartered body for information technology professionals in the U.K., founded in 1957. ) IT Professional Awards.

McLaren -- which services sectors such as oil-and-gas, process manufacturing The manufacturing industry that uses process control systems. See process control. , utilities, life sciences, and design/construction -- is one of only four such medalists who will compete for the winner's title in their category.

BCS will announce the category winners at an awards dinner in December at the Grosvenor House Hotel The Grosvenor House Hotel is one of the largest and most famous luxury hotels in London. It was built in the 1920s on the site of the former London residence of the Dukes of Westminster, whose family name is Grosvenor.  in London.

BCS is the industry body for IT professionals and a Chartered Engineering In many countries, professional engineers are called Chartered Engineers. The details of registration vary from country to country.

Chartered Engineer may refer to:
  • A Chartered Engineer registered with Engineering Council UK.
 Institution for Information Technology. It is responsible for setting standards for the IT profession, and is also leading the change in public perception and appreciation of the economic and social importance of professionally managed IT projects and programs. In this capacity, the Society advises, informs and persuades industry and British government on successful IT implementation.

The BCS IT Professional Awards recognize IT professionals and companies that provide economic prosperity, business efficiency and public services Public services is a term usually used to mean services provided by government to its citizens, either directly (through the public sector) or by financing private provision of services. . The awards program is well established in the IT industry today and is known as a milestone of success amongst practitioners. Prior to naming the medalists, a judging panel composed BCS experts conducted strenuous site visits at each potential winner's development facility -- assessing its product's strengths and weaknesses.

"The diversity of entries this year has been impressive with projects from IT suppliers as well as from the end-user community," said David Clarke David Clarke or Dave Clarke may refer to:
  • Dave Clarke, techno DJ from England
  • David Clarke (actor), motion picture and Broadway actor
  • Dave Clarke (football), Scottish football manager
  • David A.
, BCS 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. . "We have been very impressed by the high quality of all the projects and the judges certainly have their work cut out to find the overall winners from the medallists who have reached this stage."

"McLaren considers it a high honor to be named a medalist in such a stringent contest," said Paul Muir, CEO of McLaren Software. "We see it as a testament to our software's tremendous ability to help companies meet the needs of their intellectual workers."

With more than 500 customers in 47 countries, McLaren Software has been widely deployed in some of today's most complex global environment. Its 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. , Enterprise Engineer, is a suite of configurable business applications that manage engineering content, as well as the work processes that produce and use this content.

Enterprise Engineer allows users to focus on the processes involved with the creation, review and approval of intellectual property. This concept is what McLaren refers to as "Intellectual Work Management," or IWM IWM Imperial War Museum (UK)
IWM Integrated Waste Management
IWM Integrated Weed Management
IWM Institute of Wastes Management
IWM Inside Wire Maintenance
IWM I Want More
IWM Interactive Workflow Manager
. "Using IWM, management gains valuable insight into company operations. It is also able to better predict the delivery of intellectual work and plan for future projects," said Muir. "In short, IWM is a proactive concept that improves individual worker performance -- not to mention the entire engineering process."

About McLaren Software

McLaren Software develops engineering-centric intellectual work management applications for the oil and gas, process manufacturing, utilities, life sciences and engineering, design and construction sectors. McLaren helps organizations optimize their engineering design and asset change management processes to maximize the value in their engineering documents while mitigating the commercial risk associated with their use.

McLaren's Enterprise Engineer application suite supports the engineering process by providing a single point of control to manage the production and use of project content; including drawings, correspondence, procedures and specifications. Enterprise Engineer will help reduce costs, lower the risk of non-compliance, improve efficiency and accelerate project execution.

For more information, visit www.mclarensoftware.com.
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