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Jul 31, 2008

Altair India announces strategic plans and roadmap for India

Bangalore, India: Altair India headquartered in Bangalore is expanding its product development centre. Yesterday the company announced its commitment to the region by sharing its strategic plans and roadmap.

Altair India is an off-shore Engineering Services arm of Altair Inc. and is involved in the execution of CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) solutions, Grid Computing Technology, Product Innovation Consulting and Business Intelligence Software for various customers worldwide.

Altair, headquartered in Troy, Michigan, a global provider of technology and services empowering client innovation and decision making.

Altair markets and supports its advanced suite of products in India and South-Asia, as an integral part of Altair's global development workforce; engineers at this center have contributed to the state-of-the-art technology in various software product lines. Altair is organized to support its four products and service offerings; Altair HyperWorks (A Platform for InnovationTM) PBS GridWorks (Enabling On-Demand ComputingTM), Altair ProductDesign (The Shortest Distance between Concept and Realty®) and HiQube (Elevating Data to KnowledgeTM) with over 1000 consultants serving more than 1,500 clients worldwide.

Speaking on the occasion, Nelson Dias, Executive VP- APAC, Altair, said, "Altair is driven by product innovation. The India product development centre is vital to Altair's global research and development activities which are a key contributor to Altair's worldwide customers".

Altair's focus in India is to deliver solutions that allow it's clients to rapidly experiment with their ideas by evaluating options and trade-offs in near-real time. As Altair continues to make significant investments in its core offerings and add innovative new technologies to its technology portfolio, it simultaneously, also helps in increasing the ability of its customers to be most competitive in their respective industries.

India offers tremendous potential for innovative product development and Altair's global experience can be leveraged , "The commercial product business unit of the company provides the clients an integrated suite of world-class design and analysis software featuring modeling, visualization, simulation and optimization capabilities as well as design process automation and manufacturing process simulation," says Pavan Kumar, Managing Director, Altair India.