AVEVA to showcase global engineering capabilities at the Seatrade Middle East Maritime 2008

Notes and media contacts

For further information, please contact:

Elvis Mert
AVEVA Middle East
Tel: +971 4 391 0966

About AVEVA Marine solutions
AVEVA Marine combines two 'best in class' solutions - the industry-standard Tribon range and AVEVA's unique object-based technologies - to form the ultimate set of marine design and engineering tools. Combining these proven capabilities and adding numerous productivity-enhancing new features, AVEVA Marine offers risk-free business advantage in a competitive industry.

About AVEVA Global
AVEVA Global allows users at multiple sites to work together online on the same project. It controls the release of data to each site and ensures that all sites and users have access to the latest approved data, right down to attribute detail. The environment operates across low bandwidths and is tolerant of communication faults.

About AVEVA Group plc
AVEVA Group plc is one of the world's foremost and fastest-growing lifecycle engineering IT solutions and services providers to the oil and gas, paper and pulp, power, chemical, pharmaceutical and shipbuilding industries. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, the Group reported pre-tax profits for the year ended March 2008 of GBP45m on revenues of GBP127.6m. The Group has grown consistently since 1967 on the strength of pioneering engineering technology that protects the information assets of its customers from the volatile nature of the IT industry.

The Group's history of innovation spans five decades and has produced most of today's major engineering IT technologies. Serving over 1700 clients, AVEVA has a dominant position in many market sectors both on and offshore. In May 2004, the Group acquired Tribon Solutions AB, the market-leading shipbuilding solution company and now serves 85% of the world's top 20 shipbuilders.
The Group's clients include leading plant owner operators, shipbuilders and engineering contractors such as Aker Solutions, Alstom, AMEC, Areva NP, Babcock Marine, BASF, BP, Chevron, China National Nuclear Co (CNNC), China Power Engineering Consulting Group Co. (CPECC), CNOOC Offshore Oil Engineering, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, EDF, ExxonMobil, Foster Wheeler Power Group, Harland & Wolff, Hyundai Heavy Industries, Jacobs, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, SBM, Shell, Sinopec Engineering, Statoil, TKMS - ThyssenKrupp Marine System, Uhde, VT Shipbuilding, Wood Group (Alliance & Mustang), Abu Dhabi Ship Building and Worley Parsons.
Headquartered in Cambridge, England, AVEVA Group plc and its operating subsidiaries currently employ more than 750 staff worldwide in England, Australia, Austria, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Norway, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, South Korea, United Arab Emirates and the USA.