A network of expertise

Rajiv Ghatikar, Vice President and General Manager, ASEAN and Australasia,  Siemens PLM Software.

Siemens PLM Software is a global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software.  To provide customers around the world with the highest quality and greatest variety of products, services, and solutions to maximise their PLM investment, Siemens PLM has established the PLM Solution Partner Program.  The partners offer access to solutions and expertise by industry, domain, geography, business strategy, technology need, and service level.  Rajiv Ghatikar, Vice  President and General Manager for ASEAN and Australasia at Siemens PLM Software talked more about South East Asia.

Despite the global economic slowdown in 2012, Siemens PLM Software recorded a year of strong growth in South East Asia as a result of its close collaboration with partners and customers. Continued commitment from partners and customers is imperative to driving further success in the region in 2013. Siemens remains dedicated to enabling its stakeholders to make better decisions and build better products via its ecosystem of results-driven solutions and products.

With partner initiatives around technical training, sales support, certification and rewards, the partners are well-placed to develop a strong value proposition for their customers to implement solutions from Siemens PLM Software.  The following are three featured partners from South East Asia.

Sunway E-systems (SES) from Malaysia is an IT arm under Sunway Group. It has been established in the PLM market since 2003 and its distribution network extends throughout South East Asia. Today, SES’ core businesses include engineering solutions, application outsourcing and IT services outsourcing. Sunway Malaysia has been working closely with Siemens PLM Software on strategic marketing initiatives, which has enabled them to achieve success in the PLM sector. One successful initiative is their monthly workshop, which lets customers and prospects experience first-hand Siemens PLM Software’s solutions. Sunway  Malaysia was recognised for its marketing  with  the Maximise Marketing’s Contribution Award at the Go!  Partner Conference.

In Indonesia, Siemen PLM Software shares PT Citrathirza Astarijaya’s (PTCA) vision to be easy to do business with, for the benefit of various stakeholders, including customers, partners and employees. PTCA was established in 1990,  by three IT professionals with in-depth experience in the Indonesian IT landscape. In 2000, PTCA started selling Siemens PLM solutions as a Tier 2 partner and became Tier 1 partner in April 2012 to demonstrate their full commitment in selling Siemens PLM solutions.  In just a short span of time, they have been able to establish themselves as the go-to reseller for PLM products in the automotive industry. The combination of industry leading solutions from Siemens PLM  Software and the collaboration between PTCA and Siemens’ sales and technical teams, enabled PTCA to present a strong value proposition to their customers in the competitive Indonesian market.

Material Automation (Thailand) Co., Ltd (MAT) was established in 1991 in Bangkok, Thailand, with a core competency in providing IT support to Japanese manufacturers based  in Thailand. The company aims to be the one-stop IT solution provider of hardware to software, with a focus on customer satisfaction. Today, MAT has grown to a staff strength of more than 150Nike EPIC React Flyknit