Engineered Software has formed a strategic alliance with ivalve.com.

Issue: 9/01 Engineered Software, a provider of fluid flow analysis software, has formed a strategic alliance with ivalve.com, an industrial valve eMarketplace, to streamline the electronic transfer of data from buyers and sellers of valves. Under the terms of the alliance, Engineered Software will enable its PIPE-FLO software to communicate with ivalve.com's procurement engine. Using PIPE-FLO, an engineer or designer will be able to automatically send a file listing all the valves used in a piping project to ivalve.com, completing the procurement process.