ASCON Group, one of the leading developer and integrator of CAD/CAM/PLM solutions, and Oracle, the world's largest enterprise software company, to announce a new technological partnership. According to this cooperation ASCON became a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork, QuickStart Plus and got all the advantages to supply Oracle Softwares and to use ORACLE technologies for developing ASCON CAD/CAM/PLM solutions.

ASCON to apply Oracle solutions for storage and management of information in an enterprise-wide engineering data and product management system, uniting all production data - LOODSMAN:PLM, in an industrial process design automation system VERTICAL, in solution for computer-aided design of electrical equipment - KOMPAS-Electric.

About ASCON Group
ASCON - CAD/CAM/PLM developer and integrator founded in 1989. ASCON software solutions address key issues of engineering design, such as preparation and release of drawing and design documentation, business process development and engineering data management. High-tech software from ASCON have been successfully used across various industries: machinery, automotive, shipbuilding, aerospace and defense, architecture, electronics and many others. The Mechanical Computer-Aided Design solutions from ASCON, KOMPAS-3D, provides effective Industrial Product Development, Parametric 3D Solid Modeling, full-scale 2D Design, special add-ons for photo rendering, motion simulation, kinematics and dynamic analysis.

For more information about ASCON, please visit www.ascon.net.



About Oracle
Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company.

For more information about Oracle, please visit http://www.oracle.com.

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