Altair Announces Outstanding Adoption Of Its HyperWorks Enabled Community After First Year Of Operation

Altair Announces Outstanding Adoption Of Its HyperWorks Enabled Community
After First Year Of Operation
200 customers have joined this revolutionary program

TROY, Mich., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Altair (www.altair.com), a global provider
of technology and services empowering client innovation and decision making,
announces a very successful first year of operating its HyperWorks Enabled
Community (HWEC). To date, more than 200 companies worldwide have joined the
HWEC (www.hyperworkscommunity.com), and gained access to partner applications
at no incremental cost using their existing HyperWorks software licenses.

"When Altair introduced HyperWorks Units in 1999 it provided Multimatic with
access to a number of additional Altair products, which significantly improved
the efficiency of our engineering development process," says Alex Duquette,
Analysis Manager for Multimatic Technical Centre. "The extension of this
concept, known as the HyperWorks Enabled Community, provides additional
simulation capabilities including fatigue, CFD and occupant safety at no
additional cost. Multimatic took advantage of this program as soon as it
became available, and it has resulted in better utilization of Multimatic's
investment in HyperWorks Units and allows us to offer a broader and more
complete range of analysis services."

Dr. Michael Wahl, Vice President of Engineering for Achates Power, adds, "With
Altair's HyperWorks Enabled Community, we are able to take advantage in a
cost-effective way of a broad range of analysis tools that we may only use as
few as 6-8 times a year. Additionally, because all licenses pull from a
common pool we have the flexibility to instantaneously change our usage to
meet our own internal demands. The Altair's HyperWorks Enabled Community has
been invaluable in helping us meet our CAE software needs."

HyperWorks Enabled Community members can optimize their total software
investment by leveraging their HyperWorks license to gain on-demand access to
a growing portfolio of best-in-class third-party solutions. The HWEC model
provides unprecedented flexibility and ease of deployment making new
technology available without the traditional cost and burdens associated with
acquiring new software. Additionally, customers receive application support
directly from the partner's technical experts, ensuring the successful
deployment of these new technologies.

"The HWEC allows our customers to develop better products faster and at lower
costs," says James Scapa, Altair Chairman and CEO. "The early success of the
HWEC is evidence that customers are seeking more equitable software delivery
models and will embrace programs which improve their business performance."

HyperWorks is a platform of 28 applications developed by Altair augmented with
25 partner applications through the HWEC. Its patented licensing technology
allows users to transparently share access to this broad suite of applications
across their global network infrastructure.

"The HyperWorks Enabled Community gives us a lot of flexibility because it
lets us use the best software for each particular job we encounter," says
Juergen Veith, Managing Director of Tecosim GmbH. "In addition, we are also
able to try new products at no extra cost, saving the company money."

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Siegfried Bludszuweit, CEO of MET Motoren, explains,
"The HyperWorks Enabled partner program gave us the ability to utilize state
of the art fatigue analysis software through existing HyperWorks Licenses. Now
we are able to offer our customers more in depth analysis in a shorter period
of time."

Altair has significantly expanded the partner software available to customers
through the HWEC. Initially launched one year ago with six partners providing
15 applications, today the Community includes eleven partners providing 25
applications.

"nCode, as the first partner to make its software available to Altair
customers through the HWEC, worked very closely with the Altair team to
develop the integration of DesignLife," said Steve Tudberry, Vice President
of nCode Software Brand of HBM. "We just completed our first full year in the
program and overall the experience has exceeded our expectations for revenue
growth, new customers and demand for our entire product range. While every
new partnership require focus and determination, I am delighted with the
overall success of the program and look forward to the future."

Partner Applications currently available through the HyperWorks Enabled
Community include; AcuSolve and AcuConsole from ACUSIM, CFD++, CAA++ and MIME
from Metacomp, DesignLife from nCode, DSHplus from FLUIDON, FEKO Suite from
EMSS, FEMFAT from Magna, MADYMO suite from TASS, SC/Tetra suite from Software
Cradle, Sculptor from Optimal Solution Software, solidThinking and inspired
from solidThinking and VMAP from TechPassion.

For more industry feedback on this program, please click:
http://www.hyperworkscommunity.com/pdfs/hwec_customer_quotes_2009_2.pdf

About Altair
Altair Engineering, Inc. empowers client innovation and decision-making
through technology that optimizes the analysis, management and visualization
of business and engineering information. Privately held with more than 1,300
employees, Altair has offices throughout North America, South America, Europe
and Asia/Pacific. With a 20-year-plus track record for product design,
advanced engineering software and grid computing technologies, Altair
consistently delivers a competitive advantage to customers in a broad range of
industries. To learn more, please visit www.altair.com.

About the HyperWorks Enabled Community Program
HyperWorks uses a subscription-based software licensing model, where software
licenses float across the enterprise, and customers can use floating licenses
to access a broad suite of Altair developed and third party software
applications. Customers benefit from unmatched flexibility and access,
resulting in maximum software utilization, productivity and ROI. For more
information about the HyperWorks Enabled Partner Program, visit
www.hyperworkscommunity.com.

SOURCE Altair Engineering

Antoine Poussier, +1-248-614-2400 Ext. 293, antoinep@altair.com