CIMdata Praises Cimmetry's AutoVue for Enterprise-Wide Product Visualization

AutoVue Enables Global Product Development

February 2 , 2005

Internationally recognized consulting and research firm, CIMdata today released a new product review paper entitled, “Product Visualization Across the Extended Enterprise”.

Co-authored by CIMdata President, Ed Miller and Senior CIMdata Consultant, John MacKrell, this paper explores the benefits of employing visualization and collaboration solutions across the extended enterprise using several real-life case scenarios. The review paper also illustrates how AutoVue's visualization and collaboration solutions facilitate global product development by providing enterprises in all industries with the ability to view, print, markup and collaborate on all data types throughout their product definition processes.

“The AutoVue family of visualization and collaboration products from Cimmetry Systems is a very powerful set of solutions,” said John MacKrell. “It delivers a mix of capabilities that enables it to support review, analysis, approval, and verification activities on all kinds of product definition information throughout the extended enterprise of companies, their suppliers, partners, and customers. Cimmetry has a track record of being attentive to customer needs and over the years has developed a line of robust visualization and collaboration applications to address the needs of product development and manufacturing organizations in industry segments as diverse as discrete manufacturing, high tech, AEC, and process plant design.”

AutoVue provides native viewing, printing, markup, digital mockup and real-time collaboration support for more than 450 engineering drawings, 2D CAD, 3D CAD parts and assemblies, PCB layouts and schematics and office documents without requiring the authoring applications. AutoVue integrates seamlessly with several Document Management, Product Lifecycle Management, Product Data Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, Workflow, ASPs and e-business Portals, either directly or via the Web. AutoVue is available as a Desktop Edition as well as a Client-Server Edition for Windows or UNIX servers.

“AutoVue has far-reaching benefits for all stakeholders involved in the product lifecycle,” said Pam Petropoulos, Marketing Manager at Cimmetry Systems. “AutoVue's visualization and collaboration technologies are accessible and equally beneficial to the shop floor, design engineering, manufacturing, purchasing, suppliers, customers, sales and marketing, and provide all levels of an organization with the ability to apply their knowledge and expertise throughout the product lifecycle.”

“AutoVue's breadth of format support, intuitive user interface, on-line real-time collaborative features, digital mockup capabilities, design analysis features, and unified MCAD and EDA support, combine to deliver a powerful solution that should be high on any organization's visual-collaboration solution short list,” concluded CIMdata's John MacKrell.

The position paper is available for download on the CIMdata website at http://www.cimdata.com and on Cimmetry's website at  http://www.cimmetry.com/documents/CIMdata_Feb2005.pdf


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About CIMdata
CIMdata, a leading and independent worldwide strategic consultancy, is dedicated to maximizing an enterprise's ability to design and deliver innovative products and services through the application of PLM solutions. CIMdata works with both industrial organizations and suppliers of technologies and services seeking competitive advantage in the global economy. Visit CIMdata at http://www.cimdata.com

About Cimmetry
Cimmetry Systems Inc. is the recognized technology pioneer and market leader in the area of Visualization and Collaboration software tools for the A/E/C, Engineering, Manufacturing and Electronics markets.

Cimmetry's flagship product, AutoVue, is the premier enterprise-wide viewing, markup and DMU package, providing native support for more than 450 formats including 2D/3D CAD, EDA, raster, vector, hybrid, office and graphics. Users have a single point of access to their documents, regardless of format, from a single, easy-to-use interface.

AutoVue is available in both a Desktop Edition, and a Client-Server Edition which is deployable on Windows or UNIX servers. Cimmetry's viewing and markup products are strategically designed to integrate seamlessly with Document Management (DM, EDM), Workflow, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Product Data Management (PDM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), ASPs and e-business Portals, either directly or via the Web.

AutoVue is sold worldwide and available in many languages including Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. Visit Cimmetry on the Web at www.cimmetry.com

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