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Orion acquires ENOVIA PLM from Technia to improve product launch performance

June 9, 2010 | Technia press release

Technia, Addnode’s subsidiary and the leading European supplier of solutions for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), has signed an agreement with Orion concerning a delivery of a PLM solution based on the ENOVIA PLM system from Dassault Systèmes. The PLM solution will serve more than 1200 users and will enable Orion to shorten the product introduction to reduce the critical time to market for new Pharmaceutical products while ensuring regulatory requirements.

Orion is an innovative European R&D-based pharmaceuticals and diagnostics company with an emphasis on developing medicinal treatments and diagnostic tests for global markets. Orion develops, manufactures and markets human and veterinary pharmaceuticals, active pharmaceutical ingredients as well as diagnostic tests.

“The challenges in the Pharmacy industry are well known: A constant search for new ways to reduce time to market, streamline processes, increase revenues and cut cost whilst at the same time meet regulatory demands. Strategic alliances play a more and more important role, for example strategic alliance with companies that develop your products or carry out clinical trials for you. Our renewed corporate strategy calls for new methods and tools to create competitive advantages. Our thorough evaluation has concluded that Technia and the ENOVIA PLM product will bring new and strategic capabilities for the renewed product management and launch processes at Orion”, says Tiina Pesonen, CIO, Orion Oyj.

“With this order Technia continues to expand its leadership in Product Lifecycle Management for the Life Sciences industry. Technia also enters a new market in this industry – the Pharmaceutical PLM market, which is a strategic step for us”, says Ylva Berg, CEO & President at Technia.

“Orion is an industry leader capitalizing on PLM and the Technia skills to revolutionize the time to market process. This is truly a strategic win for Technia, this validates our focus on the Pharmaceutical business, our strong implementation team and partnership with Dassault Systèmes”, says Jonas Gejer VP at Technia.

For more information

Ylva Berg, CEO & president,Technia
Tel: +46 733 772 467, e-mail:  ylva.berg@technia.com

Jonas Gejer, Vice President, Technia
Tel: +46 733 77 24 14, E-mail: jonas.gejer@technia.com

Tiina Pesonen, CIO, Orion Oyj
E-mail: tiina.pesonen@orion.fi

Minna-Liisa Siltala, PLM project manager, Orion Oyj
E-mail: minna-liisa.siltala@orion.fi

About Orion
Orion is an innovative European R&D-based pharmaceutical and diagnostic company with a special emphasis on developing medicinal treatments and diagnostic tests for global markets. Orion develops, manufactures and markets human and veterinary pharmaceuticals, active pharmaceutical ingredients and diagnostic tests. Orion’s pharmaceutical R&D focuses on the following core therapy areas: central nervous system drugs, cancer and critical care drugs, and Easyhaler® pulmonary drugs.

The Group’s net sales in 2009 amounted to EUR 772 million. The Company invested EUR 95 million in research and development. At the end of 2009, the Group had a total of 3,100 employees, of whom 2,500 worked in Finland and 600 in other European countries. Orion’s A and B shares are listed on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki.


For more information, please visit www.orion.fi


About Technia
Technia is a world class supplier of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions for the creation and management of product information throughout the entire product lifecycle. Technia has about 200 employees and is a part of the Addnode group (listed at the OMX Nordic List, Small Cap). The company is a strategic partner to more than 200 Nordic companies and has offices in Sweden, Finland, Norway and North America. Technias Life Sciences customer list includes: Elekta, ,GE Healthcare, Haglöfs, Mölnlycke Health, Oticon and Sectra Mamea etc. For more information about Technia, please visit www.technia.com.


About Dassault Systèmes
As a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, Dassault Systèmes brings value to more than 100,000 customers in 80 countries. A pioneer in the 3D software market since 1981, Dassault Systèmes develops and markets PLM application software and services that support industrial processes and provide a 3D vision of the entire lifecycle of products from conception to maintenance. The Dassault Systèmes portfolio consists of CATIA for designing the virtual product - SolidWorks for 3D mechanical design - DELMIA for virtual production - SIMULIA for virtual testing - ENOVIA for global collaborative lifecycle management, and 3DVIA for online 3D lifelike experiences.  Dassault Systèmes is listed on the Nasdaq (DASTY) and Euronext Paris (#13065, DSY.PA) stock exchanges. For more information, visit http://www.3ds.com 


CATIA, DELMIA, ENOVIA, SIMULIA, SolidWorks and 3D VIA are registered trademarks of Dassault Systèmes or its subsidiaries in the US and/or other countries.