KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, October 14, 2005 - In a strategic initiative to directly focus on the key industry sectors of marine, power, and process, AVEVA (LSE: AVV) has restructured its Chinese operations into two operational divisions. The move, a result of the high success and growth in AVEVA’s process and marine businesses, will dedicate AVEVA’s VANTAGE engineering solutions and personnel to the unique requirements associated with each of these industry sectors, delivering solutions, support and consultancy more effectively.

The two divisions will be run from AVEVA's Asia Pacific operation and headed by:

• Liu Xiao Bin, Vice President, for the Guangzhou-based China Process and Power Division; and
• Zhou Chun, Vice President, for the Shanghai-based China Marine Division.

The China Marine Division will be responsible for serving all aspects of marine engineering and construction (including both shipbuilding and offshore facilities), to organizations including:

• China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC),
• China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC),
• China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company (COSCO),
• their subsidiaries and subcontractors.

In parallel, the China Process & Power Division will service the needs of the Power Design Institutes, process engineering companies and Plant Owner Operators, including:

• Sinopec,
• China Power Engineering Consulting (Group) Corporation (CPECC)
• China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC),
• China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC),
• China National Chemical Engineering Corporation (CNCEC),
• their subsidiaries and subcontractors.

The move will uniquely position AVEVA to meet the complex requirements of diverse organizations such as China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), who have both marine and process and power-focused subsidiaries.

Peter Finch, President of AVEVA’s Asia Pacific region stated: “We have achieved our success in China from our attention to customer service. This initiative will enable our Chinese team to continue delivering highly focused implementation, support and consultancy services to both existing customers and prospects in each of the major industry sectors. AVEVA’s business in China is growing faster than any other region and our industry-segmented divisions will ensure that growth is sustained. Liu, Zhou and their respective teams bring the high level experience and industry knowledge required to service the increasingly sophisticated needs of our local and international clients in the region”.

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 (LSE:AVV), the Group reported, for the year ended March 2005, a growth in turnover of 51% over 2004. 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 1500 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 3M, ALSTOM Power, AMEC, BASF, China Huanqiu Contracting & Engineering Corporation, Daewoo Heavy Industries, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), Dalian New Shipbuilding, Du Pont, Electricité de France, Framatome ANP, Halliburton, Hanjin Heavy Industries, Hitachi, Hudong Zhonghua Shipyard, Hyundai Heavy Industries, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation, Kvaerner, Merck, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding, North-West Electric Power Design Institute, Petronas Carigali, Samsung Engineering, Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding, Shell, Sinopec Engineering Incorporation, STX Shipbuilding and Uhde.

Headquartered in Cambridge, England, AVEVA Group plc and its operating subsidiaries currently employ more than 500 staff worldwide with offices in England, Australia, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Norway, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sweden, South Korea and the USA.

About VANTAGE

VANTAGE, the collective name for AVEVA's four-family plant lifecycle product suite, offers proven, integrated and versatile solutions for engineering IT. Well known for its Plant Design Management System (PDMS), it also addresses data management, project management, engineering design, visualization, third party software integration, procurement and connecting the business enterprise on a common foundation. VANTAGE represents AVEVA's commitment to harnessing the best of technology to answer the needs of good engineering and offers the engineering world's most advanced globally-distributed project work solution. VANTAGE is developed upon a proven and evolving technology that has been deployed on major global projects for over 25 years.