Alignent Software

BAE Systems, a leading manufacturer of military aircraft, surface ships, submarines and other defense products, relies on Alignent to develop roadmaps that coordinate program pursuits with capability requirements and technology developments. BAE has standardized on Alignent in both North America and the U.K.

Boeing is the world's leading aerospace company and the largest combined manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft combined. Boeing relies on Alignent to drive business strategy across the entire enterprise, using roadmaps to assist with the strategic planning processes and ensure tight communications between business units across 145 countries.

One of Europe's leading providers of telecommunications services, the BT Group uses Alignent's products to create technology and capability roadmaps that help it effectively serve over 20 million businesses and residential customers with more than 29 million exchange phone lines.

Corning, a global leader in high-technology materials development, relies on Alignent to create roadmaps to obtain insight into customer needs and also to align its R&D and new product development sectors. Although most widely used in the Display Technologies division, Alignent's products touch every one of Corning's business units.

Corus Group, a leading international metal company, standardized on Alignent to synchronize technology development efforts within its four divisions and operations worldwide. Corus Group has rolled out Vision Strategist at multiple locations in the U.K.

Graduate students at The George Washington University's Engineering Management & Systems Engineering department use Alignent Software to learn hands-on, advanced product and technology planning as an integral part of their advanced degree program. In turn, the department provides Alignent Software with ongoing access to the results of their research in applied knowledge management practices.

Honeywell, a $25 billion diversified technology and manufacturing leader, relies on Alignent to build sophisticated roadmaps to identify gaps and opportunities to maximize product and technology re-use. Alignent's roadmapping solutions have been adopted by Honeywell company-wide—across every business unit—including strategic planning, annual operating plan, new product introduction, design for Six Sigma and management resource review.

Itron, a leading technology provider and critical source of knowledge to the global energy and water industries, uses Alignent in both the hardware and software divisions. In the software division, Vision Strategist is employed to create provider roadmaps, allowing the organization to map its software to releases with other IT partner organizations, such as Microsoft and Oracle to ensure continuous operability with Itron's hardware. The hardware division uses Alignent's solutions to create technology and product roadmaps outlining future product development.

The Applied Physics Laboratory, a division of The Johns Hopkins University, is a not-for-profit research and development organization dedicated to solving complex problems that present critical challenges to the nation. The organization uses Alignent Software products in its efforts to support government agencies including the Department of Defense and NASA.

Lockheed Martin, a global enterprise principally engaged in advanced technology systems, products and services, has standardized on Alignent to create a living technology planning document that minimizes information silos among the various communities within the organization. The company also uses roadmaps to reduce complexity issues and gain more visibility into the marketplace. Both Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems & Sensors and Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company have standardized on Alignent for all of their diverse roadmapping needs.

Alignent currently serves two Medtronic divisions. The Medtronic Microelectronics Center's technology team relies on the solutions to develop capability and technology roadmaps that aid in the development of integrated circuits, foundry services and custom microelectronics. In the Cardiac Rhythm Management division, the organization creates roadmaps that aid in the development of new heart implant technologies.

One of the first companies to adopt and popularize roadmaps, Motorola has standardized on Alignent's solutions to drive product planning efforts across distributed business units, customers and suppliers. Motorola relies on Alignent's collaborative solutions to create company-wide roadmaps and drive strategic planning activities.

NAVAIR (Naval Air Systems Command) provides maritime combat power to the United States Navy and Marine Corps. NAVAIR relies on Alignent to track naval aviation technologies that encourage future investments, increase supplier collaboration and improve decision making. The organization uses Alignent software to align the industry and its agencies toward present and future naval aviation objectives.

The Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State is the first industrial engineering department in the world. Since the department's establishment in 1908, Penn State has been developing a proud tradition of innovation in industrial engineering. The department uses Alignent's software as a roadmapping training tool in graduate-level classes.

Philips Medical Division Systems uses Alignent's solutions to synchronize market, product and technology roadmaps in its innovation efforts. The organization's technologies are used in such technologies as X-ray, ultrasound, magnetic resonance, computed tomography, nuclear medicine, PET, radiation oncology systems, patient monitoring, information management and resuscitation products.

Purdue University's Center for Technology Roadmapping strives to enhance strategic planning through the advancement of the art and science of technology roadmapping. The Center uses Alignent's roadmapping software to create publicly available roadmaps for the Center for Technology Roadmapping website.

The PRIME Faraday Partnership, the first of four Faraday Partnerships launched by the UK Government to assist industries throughout the UK, uses Alignent's solutions to create technology roadmaps that drive its technology watch, provide technical and market reports targeted at UK businesses and feed into the organization's long-term strategy. The Partnership focuses its skills on the design and development of Products with Interdependent Mechanical and Electronic parts (PRIME).

Sandia National Laboratories, which partners with the United States Air Force and other branches of the military, relies on Alignent's roadmaps to drive technology developments for various national security projects through 2015 and beyond. The roadmaps provide the engineers at Sandia with a means to visualize technology evolution and plan for the future.

Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, a world leader in helicopter design, manufacturing and service, standardized on Alignent to bring consistency and collaboration to its roadmapping efforts. Where previous roadmapping efforts were ad-hoc and in multiple formats, Sikorsky rolled out Vision Strategist to provide a single, collaborative database of roadmaps with data integrity and enterprise-wide availability, resulting in better and faster decisions that drive all internally-funded and externally-funded R&D activities.

SKF is a leading global manufacturer and supplier of ball bearing products and solutions for automotive, trains and heavy equipment machinery companies. SKF relies on Alignent's roadmapping solutions to optimize product development efforts, including identifying ways to leverage new technologies across the organization and optimize time-to-market for new products.

Smiths Aerospace, a leading global provider of innovative solutions to builders and operators of military and civil aircraft and engines, has standardized on Alignent to create roadmaps that drive its concept of operations (CONOPS) development. By developing capabilities and technology roadmaps, the organization can better assess its opportunities and improve its planning process.

Textron, one of America's largest multi-industry companies, uses Alignent to create technology roadmaps and capabilities roadmaps, with the ultimate goal of linking product plans to the overall strategic plans formulated at the highest level. Alignent's solutions touch the entire organization, aligning the geographically dispersed divisions into a single planning system.

The Air Force Flight Test Center, based out of Edwards Air Force Base in California, chose Alignent to create roadmaps that support its ground-and flight-test efforts. The Air Force uses roadmaps across technical disciplines to drive technical requirements and operational impacts, estimate long-term impacts of financial decisions, and to link program management processes with strategic vision.

The U.S. Navy's Naval Surface Warfare Center at Crane Naval Base, relies on Alignent to create roadmaps from both a top-down and bottoms-up perspective. From the top-down perspective, roadmaps are used to establish baseline capabilities and map surface ship logistics and maintenance. From the bottoms-up perspective, roadmaps are developed to provide support to external customers. Alignent is the standard system for creating roadmaps across command and control, combat identification, solid state RF devices, wireless, electronic warfare, fuel cell development and directed energy weapons.

The Centre for Technology Management, part of the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering provides industrial technology managers and the wider technology management community with a unique resource for investigating effective technology management practices. The University uses Alignent Software's products and resources to support their efforts.

The U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), based out of MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, uses Alignent's solutions to create roadmaps to plan for future technological evolution. The USSOCOM uses Alignent to map future capabilities needed by the armed forces, and then to plan R&D development efforts to meet those criteria.

Xerox, a global leader in the document management business, is using Vision Strategist to improve the company's ability to capture and quantify front end requirements, better understand the competitive situation, and improve overall R&D effectiveness for each line of business. Additionally, the organization uses roadmaps to improve technical response and create a collaborative roadmapping effort across the globally distributed organization.