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Causeway selects Cimmetry’s AutoVue to provide online Visual Collaboration Causeway Technologies has licensed Cimmetry's AutoVue technology for use with Causeway Collaboration, Causeway’s ASP Project Extranet solution, giving users the ability to view and mark-up over 200 different document formats | |||
July 17, 2002 - Causeway Technologies, Inc. (NQBS: CAUS), a leading supplier of collaborative, commercial, and supply chain solutions to the global construction industry, and Cimmetry Systems, Inc., the leader in visualisation and collaboration solutions, announced today that Causeway has licensed Cimmetry's AutoVue for Java technology for use with Causeway Collaboration, Causeway’s ASP Project Extranet solution. Causeway Collaboration enables design teams to effectively manage design and specification by using auditable document and information exchange to streamline procedures, highlight potential issues prior to their causing a problem, and provide automatic creation of project information archives. This ensures that the project team focuses on important details while maintaining a view of the bigger picture. Cimmetry's AutoVue technology allows users to access over 200 different 2D/3D CAD, EDA and office formats without requiring the authoring applications. Users can open remote documents directly in their Web browsers, create mark-ups or redlines and save these annotations back onto the server. This allows for effective collaboration on construction projects without the need to purchase expensive licenses of multiple design, engineering, and office applications. “The Causeway platform is an excellent Web-based service designed to enable collaboration between customers, suppliers and business partners who are working on construction projects”, said Brian Strasser, Business Development Manager at Cimmetry Systems. “By integrating Cimmetry’s AutoVue for Java technology, Causeway is providing users with visual access to the necessary drawings and documents, regardless of format, directly from within their Web browsers. Causeway’s decision to partner with Cimmetry has created a comprehensive solution of exceptional value.” Phil Brown, Causeway’s CEO added, “after performing extensive research, our decision to integrate Cimmetry's AutoVue for Java product within Causeway Collaboration was an easy one, as it combines the best viewing and mark-up functionality with the most extensive range of file types supported. It was important for us to find a viewer that gives our customers this extensive functionality, whilst being easy to use. The Cimmetry product is an important component of our unique project collaboration solution.” About Causeway Technologies® Causeway Technologies is a leading supplier of collaborative, commercial, and supply chain solutions to the global construction industry, meeting the needs of enterprises, projects, and trading partnerships. Causeway has extensive experience in delivering solutions that underpin the complex business processes typical of project centric organisations. Causeway's solutions are already providing proactive support for key design, construction, and maintenance processes on major building and infrastructure projects around the world. Causeway’s integrated solutions encompass enterprise and desktop applications supported by comprehensive e-trading and data services which provide Causeway’s customers with support for: collaboration and knowledge management, estimating and tendering, commercial and procurement management, capital project and maintenance management, and financial accounting. Causeway Technologies, Inc. is listed on the NQBS:OTC market in the USA, and has offices UK and USA. For further information, visit http://www.causeway-tech.com About Causeway CollaborationTM Causeway Collaboration is ASP Project Extranet Service, providing proactive project centric support to online architectural, engineering and construction communities. Powered by Livelink from Open Text Corporation and using Cimmetry’s AutoVue visualisation technology, Causeway Collaboration is a comprehensive, simple-to-use software application that has been specifically developed to address the communication challenges of today's construction industry. It connects everyone no matter which company they work for, where they are located or which projects they are working on. It creates a workspace for companies, project teams, and individuals to work together and share up-to-date information rapidly and accurately. The system speeds up project communications, reviews, and approvals, supports the automation of business processes, and improves operational efficiency. It accelerates project processes from start to finish. Causeway Collaboration allows people to focus on details without losing sight of the big picture. It gives them the time to add value and the space to innovate. 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 viewing and mark-up products are strategically designed to integrate seamlessly with Document Management (DM, EDM), Products Lifecycle Management (PLM), Workflow, Product Data Management (PDM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Application Service Providing (ASP) and Supply Chain Management systems either directly or through the Web. Further information: www.cimmetry.com About AutoVue Cimmetry's flagship product, AutoVue, is sold worldwide and available in many languages. AutoVue is the premier enterprise wide viewing and mark-up package, providing native file support for more than 200 formats including office formats, graphics, raster, 2D & 3D CAD and Electronics design. AutoVue integrates seamlessly with Causeway Collaboration, allowing users to not only view their documents, but to annotate them and automatically check the mark-ups back in as controlled documents. Formats supported include 2D CAD documents (AutoCAD, MicroStation...), 3D assemblies and parts (Pro/E, CATIA, SolidWorks, Unigraphics…), EDA formats (Gerber, ODB++...) and office documents (MS Office, PDF, TIFF...). Contacts Causeway Technologies: Deborah Gray Peter Rennison Public Relations T: +44 (0) 1442 245030 E: debs@prpr.co.uk Graham Cunningham-Walker Vice President – Marketing T: +44 (0) 1628 552000 E: gcw@causeway-tech.com Cimmetry Systems: Derek Gold T: +1-514-735-3219 x105 E: derek_gold@cimmetry.com Copyright Copyright 2002 Causeway Technologies, Inc. Causeway, Causeway Technologies and Causeway Collaboration, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Causeway Technologies, Inc. Cimmetry, AutoVue, and AutoVue for Java are registered trademarks of Cimmetry Systems, Inc. This list is not exhaustive. Other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. Please note This news release may contain forward-looking statements relating to the deployment of Causeway Tradex by customers, and future performance of Causeway Technologies, Inc. Forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially. These risks and uncertainties include, among others, risks involved in the completion and integration of acquisitions, the possibility of technical, logistical or planning issues in connection with deployments, the continuous commitment of Causeway customers and other risks detailed from time to time in the Causeway filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Forward-looking statements are based on management's beliefs and opinions at the time the statements are made. Causeway Technologies do not undertake any obligations to update forward-looking statements should circumstances or management's beliefs or opinions change. | |||
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