BANGALORE, INDIA: Altair, a global provider of technology and services empowering client innovation and decision making, today announced its commitment to the region by sharing its strategic plans and roadmap.

Headquarter in Troy, Michigan, with its Indian subsidiary Altair India headquartered in Bangalore is expanding its product development centre. Altair India is an off-shore Engineering Services arm of Altair Inc. and is involved in the execution of CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) solutions, Grid Computing Technology, Product Innovation Consulting and Business Intelligence Software for various customers worldwide.

Altair markets and supports its advanced suite of products in India and South-Asia, as an integral part of Altair's global development workforce; engineers at this center have contributed to the state-of-the-art technology in various software product lines. Altair is organised to support its four products and service offerings; Altair HyperWorks (A Platform for Innovation) PBS GridWorks (Enabling On-Demand Computing), Altair ProductDesign (The Shortest Distance between Concept and Realty) and HiQube (Elevating Data to Knowledge) with over 1,000 consultants serving more than 1,500 clients worldwide.

Altair's focus in India is to deliver solutions that allow it's clients to rapidly experiment with their ideas by evaluating options and trade-offs in near-real time. As Altair continues to make significant investments in its core offerings and add innovative new technologies to its technology portfolio, it simultaneously, also helps in increasing the ability of its customers to be most competitive in their respective industries.

Nelson Dias, Executive VP- APAC, Altair, said: "Altair is driven by product innovation. The India product development centre is vital to Altair's global research and development activities which are a key contributor to Altair's worldwide customers."

India offers tremendous potential for innovative product development and Altair's global experience can be leveraged , "The commercial product business unit of the company provides the clients an integrated suite of world-class design and analysis software featuring modeling, visualization, simulation and optimization capabilities as well as design process automation and manufacturing process simulation," added Pavan Kumar, Managing Director, Altair India.