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Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany – February 2, 2012 – PRION GmbH, a leading German-based global system integrator in the PLM and CAD business, announced an agreement with Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and leading global provider of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software and services, to help develop and implement PLM technology for customers globally. PRION Group focuses exclusively on high-end PLM and CAD solutions in connection with Siemens PLM Software's technology. Since its establishment in 1998 its business model and worldwide skill setup has been aligned with Siemens PLM Software. Since then Siemens PLM Software and PRION Group have developed a long proven track record of successfully engaging together in numerous complex projects. Both partners share the concept of creating customer value through business driven solutions on a high level of delivery excellence, quality and reliability. Joint engagements in customer projects smoothly follow standardized processes, resulting in seamless alignment and minimized risk and effort for the customer. PRION Group’s various complimentary offerings, e.g. data migration and longterm customer support, are highly synergetic contributions to many successful customer projects. PRION Group as service partner is providing its customers with high-quality solutions in connection with the latest Siemens PLM Software technology. "Becoming a global services partner of Siemens PLM Software is a strong affirmation of our durable partnership and another important milestone in our company development to become a world-market leading service provider alongside Siemens PLM Software", explained Dr. Joseph Unger, co-founder and managing partner of PRION Group.

Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany – October, 2011 – PRION GmbH, a leading German-based global system integrator in the PLM and CAD business, today announced it has signed an alliance agreement with Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and leading global provider of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software and services. Under this agreement both partners will cooperate strategically according to Siemens PLM Software’s Consulting & Service Integrator (C&SI) Partner Program. The intention of this alliance is to help customers get the maximum business benefits out of Siemens PLM Software’s products. Today product-focused organizations find themselves more and more challenged to make the best possible use of scarce resources, transform their product portfolio from margin-critical mature markets into innovative emerging markets, meet compliance regulations, etc. – mostly on a global level. Consistently managing processes and product data in these so-called extended enterprises in a cost-efficient way is requiring best-in-class consulting and IT-services to map business needs onto efficient, standardized IT-solutions. PRION Group focuses exclusively on high-end PLM and CAD solutions in connection with Siemens PLM Software’s technology. Since its establishment in 1998 its business model and worldwide skill setup has been aligned with Siemens PLM Software. Since then Siemens PLM Software and PRION Group have developed a long proven track record of successfully engaging together in numerous complex projects. Both partners share the concept of creating customer value through business driven solutions on a high level of delivery excellence, quality and reliability. Joint engagements in customer projects smoothly follow standardized processes, resulting in seamless alignment and minimized risk and effort for the customer. PRION Group’s various complimentary offerings, e.g. data migration and longterm customer support, are highly synergetic contributions to many successful customer projects. PRION Group as a main contractor is providing its customers with high-quality solutions in connection with the latest Siemens PLM Software technology. One important aspect of this agreement for customers is the fact that both partners will jointly define and market attractive new industry solutions, using PRION Group’s special industry and technology experience. Another advantage is that both partners will align their business plans to better serve more customers in additional industries, geographical regions, etc. A major benefit for PRION Group customers is that they are constantly equipped with the latest and most comprehensive product information and with experts trained according to Siemens PLM Software standards - due to the company’s commitment to fully enable its alliance partners. "We’re delighted to raise our proven partnership with PRION to the level of an Alliance Partner," said Armin Gittinger, Director Strategic Alliances Germany, Siemens PLM Software. "This strategic cooperation will open up new choices and synergies for customers and prospects – in line with our value-driven corporate partner strategy." "Entering into the C&SI level of Siemens PLM Software’s Partner Program is a strong affirmation of our durable partnership and an important milestone in our company history. For us it's an obligation and a powerful promotion of our strategy to become a world-market leading service provider alongside Siemens PLM Software," explained Dr. Joseph Unger, co-founder and managing partner of PRION Group.

CIMdata is a non-biased, independent, global consulting firm that has established itself as a world-leading source of information and guidance to both industrial organizations and suppliers of PLM technologies and services. The fact that CIMdata is completely independent assures the highest level of confidentiality and objectivity. The headquarters of CIMdata is in the US. In 2011, CIMdata has announced PRION Group as a member and listed PRION Group in the PLM Supplier profiles along with Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, SAP AG and Siemens IT Solutions and Services.

For further information: http://www.cimdata.com/plm/supplier_profiles/prion.html

Mr. Ehsan Shariff, CEO Asia Business, PRION PLM & IT Services Pvt. Ltd. was an invited speaker at the Convocation of Batch 2009-2011 of the Indo-German Training Center (IGTC). The Indo-German Chamber of Commerce hosted this festive occasion at Le Meridien in April 2011. The following is an excerpt of the article which appeared on the website of the IGTC India.

"..."Consider this life a journey on a road. All you have to do is drive straight and always take only the right turns which literally mean please don’t take short cuts, don’t fall to corruption and red tape. Remember our first principle Satyameva Jayate." Truth Alone Triumphs’" …were the strong words of advice to the students by Mr Ehsan Shariff, CEO Asia Business, PRION PLM & IT Services Pvt. Ltd. He also gave us a delightful recount of his association with the IGCC and the successful collaboration with the IGTC where the IGTC trainees at PRION worked with his global HR team (Germany, USA and India) to establish an open source that now acts as foundation of their recruitment process worldwide. It was also heart-warming to know that this success encouraged him to involve the subsequent new batch of students on more core topics like Sales and Business Development and he assured us that the association with IGTC would be a long one..."

To read the full article: http://www.igtcindia.com/articles/Convocation-of-Batch-2009-2011---IGTC-Bangalore.html

In November 2000 PRION Group opened its first location outside of Germany - in Baden, Switzerland. This was the start of PRION’s global expansion. Today the group structure comprises businesses in US, Great Britain, India, Germany and Switzerland. PRION is now a worldwide PLM System Integrator with a strong focus on Siemens SPLM SW solutions.

The Swiss office of the PRION Group was the new home for the PRION employees who already worked on Swiss based projects. Since that time PRION has grown its PLM business significantly over 10 years. PRION Switzerland is now working successfully with such well known companies as: Alstom, Rieter, Pilatus, Zimmer and Wartsila.

"The professionalism of our employees and highly skilled expertise in PLM is a guarantee for us to cope with the constant challenges of the IT market and the individual PLM needs of our customers" says Thomas Friedrich, Managing Director of PRION Switzerland. "In the coming years PRION will continue to offer value added PLM services for Swiss companies and to support our customers with their global PLM alignment. We are looking forward to the next 10 years."

PRION is a worldwide operating PLM Consulting company with an emphasis on complex PLM projects. PRION offers a complete service portfolio; from analysis of the actual company situation, generic software neutral process consulting and process optimisation, to configuration of the system architecture, implementation of the system, training of the employees and handover to the customer.

The following companies are counted among PRION customers: Alstom, Daimler, Terex Demag, EADS, Sauer Danfoss, Eisenmann, Siemens and other worldwide operating companies. With its headquarter in Stuttgart, Germany and subsidiaries in Switzerland, Great Britain, India and the United States PRION is able to manage complex projects for international operating companies. The worldwide presence enables competitive and cost efficient supply of PLM software solutions in an onshore/offshore model. PRION is implementation partner of Siemens UGS in the field of discrete production.

Baden, November 2010

Contact:
Thomas Friedrich
PRION Schweiz AG
PLM & IT Solutions
Bruggerstr. 69
CH – 5400 Baden
Tel: +41 56 221 36 36
Fax: +41 56 221 36 37
www.prion-group.com