The Enterprise Solution for Product Innovation. Altair Data Manager. Where is your product performance data?

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1 The Enterprise Solution for Product Innovation Altair Data Manager TM Where is your product performance data? Unmanaged and uncontrolled product performance data, including CAE and test information data, has major ramifications at the enterprise level. The main issue is the intrinsic inability for product management to respond to non-compliant product design as might be evidenced from simulation and test results, especially during early development phases. Altair Data Manager (ADM) addresses this need by providing a robust and comprehensive solution specifically designed to manage product performance data that is associated with engineering work processes and environment. This solution allows for more informed decision-making throughout the enterprise.

2 BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT In today's highly competitive market space, businesses are forced to look at ways to significantly shorten product development cycles. As CAE-driven product design processes gain acceptance to design and validate highly engineered products, organizations are struggling to manage and vault this intellectual property as part of the product lifecycle. The global nature of the current business environment has resulted in globally distributed product design and development teams. As a result, IT solutions that enable efficient and effective sharing and communication of data across time zones are crucial to enable rapid decisions on product design enhancements. Altair's Data Manager addresses the needs of the end-user community as well as the modern decentralized business model. Product Dashboard Altair Data Manager provides informed decision-making at all levels is possible through product performance dashboards. ADM is a comprehensive data management solution, built on a robust and scalable framework, that enables global design and development teams to make effective product design decisions in a timely manner.

3 BUSINESS CHALLENGES Challenges faced by design and development teams can be broadly summarized into categories: Data Aggregation Product data spread across multiple data sources, such as shared drives, co-worker desktops, ftp sites, databases, CDs/DVDs, etc. Data Integrity Inability to ensure data validity and accuracy, and secure exchange of information. Integration Lack of integration to data management systems from within CAE applications, CAD/PDM systems, IT systems, etc. Rapid Design Decisions Ability to make effective business decisions by co-workers, customers, suppliers and management in a timely manner. Visibility to Virtual Validation Lack of visibility to CAE/virtual validation process; ability to track and manage all the virtual validation activities and assess the impact of CAE on the product performance. BUSINESS DRIVERS Key business drivers that motivate organizations looking at product performance data management solutions include: Shorter Design Cycle Desire to shorten product development cycles or to support aggressive design release schedules. Timely Design Decisions Ability to make effective product design decisions in a timely manner. Sharing of Data Effectively and efficiently sharing and communicating data among the distributed development teams. 24/7 Product Development Ability to support around-the-clock and around-the-world product development and engineering processes. Customer Driven To support customer requirements for better data management, security and easy access to project data. High-Performance Data Management for Globally Distributed Teams

4 ALTAIR DATA MANAGER KEY FEATURES COTS: Altair Data Manager is a commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) solution that is self-contained, and can work independently and integrate with any existing PDM system, database and/or other enterprise system. Unstructured and Unorganized Data Scalability: The solution is highly scalable, capable of supporting thousands of users. Performance: The solution can be configured for optimal performance based on usage pattern, data size, hardware, and network infrastructure. Technology: Altair Data Manager includes Oracle runtime and can interface with existing instances of DB2 and MSSQL. Server-side components are COM- and.net-based and the user clients are Java-based. Security: Altair Data Manager's robust security model implements role based access to data with a complete audit trail. Lineage: A detailed and thorough schema captures complex relationships, as well as tracks data origin and downstream usage. Structured and Organized Data Neutral Solution: Altair Data Management is independent and compatible with all CAE pre- and post-processors and test data management systems. Open Architecture: Altair Data Manager is a stable, robust and openarchitecture client-server solution that enables tight integration with desktop applications. Design Revisions Users Process Automation: Altair Data Manager's stable and robust integration and automation framework allows for implementing standardized process automation solutions, including load case setup to manage simulation data automatically. Also, high-level workflows can be implemented to capture product development processes. A B C D E Projects Search and Query: Users can perform complex queries, such as "where used" to locate projects and design iterations that use a specific CAD or CAE model. Flexible Data Structures: Altair Data Manager's flexible data structure provides easy data mapping from existing data management practices.

5 ALTAIR DATA MANAGER MODULES Web Client Altair Data Manager Web Client allows users to securely access data from any location, review results of 3D models and dynamically overlay plots from multiple projects. Assembly Manager Altair Data Manager supports an integrated approach to CAE Model Assembly Management. Assembly Manager allows users to process a CAD bill of materials (BOM), generate CAE assemblies and sub-assemblies, and automatically save this information in Altair Data Manager. This ensures that all stakeholders are working with the most current models and assemblies. CAE Pre- and Post-Processing Client Altair Data Manager's open-architecture design allows tight integration with commercial/proprietary CAE pre- and postprocessing desktop applications, including Altair HyperWorks. This flexibility provides seamless data management capabilities directly from within any CAE environment. Load Case Management Altair Data Manager directly integrates with industry automation frameworks such as Altair Process Manager. This functionality automates and standardizes load-case setup and automatically manages data flowing through work processes.

6 ALTAIR DATA MANAGER MODULES (CONTINUED) Desktop Client A stand-alone application that allows users to manage data from the desktop without launching pre- and post-processing applications. BatchMesh Scheduler Altair's BatchMesh Scheduler allows users to schedule a series of CAD files to be meshed by any batchmeshing engine including Altair's BatchMesher. The resulting finite-element model files are automatically cataloged in Altair Data Manager and available to load case setup and model assembly processes. ALTAIR'S DATA MANAGEMENT APPROACH Altair's approach of clearly separating "process" from data management allows companies to incrementally build enterprise solutions that work out of the box, bring value and minimize risk. Altair's modular architecture for data management delivers highly configurable solutions that address the unique requirements and challenges of complex product development processes. High-Level Data Flow

7 BENEFITS Altair Data Manager is the most comprehensive product performance data management solution in the marketplace. Altair Data Manager allows users to capture, organize and manage data throughout the product development process starting from interfacing with CAD/PDM systems, BatchMeshing engines, assembly management solutions, pre and post-processing applications, process automation frameworks to job submission systems. ADM brings tremendous value, allows organizations to build the solution incrementally, thus minimizing risk. Benefits to various stakeholders include: Engineers Organized data for work in progress. Access to latest CAE, CAD and test data. Ability to track complex relationships and lineage information for data sets. Access to data from any location. Comprehensive search capabilities to locate current and legacy data. IT Departments Data tagged to enable search and purging of unnecessary data. Data archival based on policy to offline data. Data security based on roles and groups. Managers Access to information for rapid decision-making. Track all simulation projects. Dashboards to review product performance metrics. Provides visibility to CAE processes. Customers and Suppliers Access to information reports and results. Access to project status. Data security and integrity.

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