ROCHESTER HILLS ? Trubiquity (formerly Autoweb), which provides software-based business process automation and data management solutions for the automotive, aerospace and consumer goods industries, has launched its own version of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) architecture, called TRUcore, which the company said greatly improves global business team communications.

The new architecture also streamlines customers? internal business processes and offers better coordination, data management and process execution between a company?s business units and its global supply chain partners.

Based on Microsoft?s popular .NET software development platform, TRUcore is a service-oriented architecture (SOA) designed to unify customers? business processes by structuring large software applications as a collection of smaller services. These services can be used by people both inside and outside a company and combined to give customers a greater degree of process performance, flexibility and security.

?Our new architecture allows manufacturers and suppliers to automate processes and collaborate on projects despite differences in their communications protocols, time zones and languages, or the size and format of the data files that need to be exchanged,? said Trubiquity CEO Nino DiCosmo..

As a complement to Trubiquity?s suite of hosted process automation solutions, the TRUcore architecture also allows customers to securely access and share information that has been stored within internal systems. These integration points provide customers an opportunity to leverage existing IT investments while ensuring that critical business data is up-to-date, secure, and available to all necessary stakeholders.

Based on a subscription-usage model, Trubiquity?s SaaS-based software reduces or eliminates redundant administration, hardware and software costs related to the maintenance of a customer?s internal data management systems and business processes. Trubiquity software can be scaled up or down, meaning that customers can implement multiple software solutions while remaining flexible to process changes.

In addition to launching TRUcore, Trubiquity?s popular technical data exchange solution, formerly IPExchange, will be renamed to TRUexchange. The new TRUexchange product is the first to be developed and released on the TRUcore architecture. Trubiquity?s data exchange solutions are used by OEMs and suppliers across the globe to exchange large, unstructured data files (CAD/PLM).

Based in Rochester Hills, with European headquarters in Germany and the U.K., Trubiquity provides a single, software-as-a-service-based business process network connecting enterprises across all global communication protocols and standards. Trubiquity?s solutions can be accessed all the time, everywhere around the globe.

Trubiquity has more than 5,200 customers in 40 countries, with more than 80 global sales partners. As Autoweb, the company was named one of the ?Michigan 50 Companies to Watch? by the Edward Lowe Foundation as well as a ?Michigan Economic Bright Spot? by Corp! magazine, both for 2008.

Trubiquity?s customers are some of the world?s leading automotive manufacturers and their suppliers, including BMW, Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Mitsubishi and Nissan, as well as BAE Systems, Behr, Federal Mogul, Hella, Honeywell Aerospace, Johnson Controls, Lear Corporation, Metaldyne and Visteon.

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