AVEVA is one of the world's foremost and fastest-growing lifecycle engineering IT solutions and services providers to the oil and gas, pulp and paper, power, chemical, pharmaceutical and shipbuilding industries. AVEVA is known for its Vantage Plant Design Management System (PDMS), the original 3D plant design solution. PDMS is built upon a proprietary architecture that has defended its customers' data through every change the IT revolution has produced since 1974. Including its newest VNET technology, AVEVA has a history of groundbreaking software and products that spans five decades. Serving more than 1,500 clients, AVEVA maintains a dominant position in many market sectors. AVEVA acquired Tribon Solutions AB, the market-leading shipbuilding solution company and now serves 80 per cent of the world's top 20 shipbuilders. The company s clients include leading plant owner operators, shipbuilders and engineering contractors such as 3M, ALSTOM Power, AMEC, BASF, Du Pont, Electricit de France, Halliburton, Hitachi, Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard, Hyundai Heavy Industries, Hyundai Mipo Dockyard, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation, Kvaerner, Merck, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Samsung Engineering, Shell and STX Shipbuilding.