Cranes joins hands with Lanner, Popkin for modelling, simulation

Our Convergence Bureau
10 December 2003

Mumbai: Cranes Software International (www.cranessoftware.com), a global scientific and engineering products and solutions provider, has highlighted the impact of modelling and simulation in the current business environment.

Towards this end it has announcing its partnership with the Lanner Group (www.lanner.com), the world's pioneering leader in business simulation and optimisation, and Popkin Software (www.popkin.com), the market leader in modelling and design tools which enables the design and deployment of enterprise systems.

These partnerships will enable Cranes to distribute their products — the Witness, Simba and System Architect range — in the Indian market.

Over the years, Cranes has carved for itself a prominent position in the scientific and engineering software products arena which includes application areas as niche as simulation, analysis and design. Cranes, with a powerful dealer network, in-depth market knowledge and proven marketing expertise, has attracted many leading product principals to partner with them in this region.

The Lanner Group, based in Redditch, UK, is the world's leading dedicated provider of simulation and optimisation technology. Lanners's Witness integrates the power and predictive accuracy of simulation and optimisation technologies, previously more commonly associated with industrial and manufacturing applications, with the range of process-centric applications and middleware technology deployed in the rapidly expanding field of BPM.

Popkin software is the leading developer of enterprise architecture tools. System Architect is a comprehensive and powerful modelling solution designed to provide all of the tools necessary for development of successful enterprise systems. It is the only tool to integrate, in one multi-user product, industry-leading support for all major areas of modelling, including business modelling, object-oriented and component modelling with UML, relational data modelling, network architecture design, and structured analysis and design.