CIMMETRY'S AUTOVUE INTEGRATES WITH FILENET ECM TO EXPAND ACCESS TO CRITICAL CONTENT

Cimmetry Systems Inc., the global leader in Visualization and Collaboration solutions for the A/E/C, Engineering, Manufacturing and Electronics markets, today announced availability of a viewing and collaboration solution for BrightspireTM, FileNET Corporation's business process management framework and component of its Enterprise Content Management offering.

Washington, D.C. -- October 21 2002

Cimmetry now provides a solution to augment content management capabilities of Brightspire, providing visualization of engineering drawings, 3D CAD drawings and Electronic Design Automation (circuit board drawings) formats, as well as collaboration tools for marking up or redlining the documents saved in the FileNET repository.

AutoVue is a thin-client visualization and collaboration solution allowing users to view and markup over 200 native 2D/3D/EDA CAD file formats, directly from a Web browser. Integrated with FileNET's integration framework, AutoVue delivers access to critical content to users across organizations.

"This integration with Cimmetry will allow FileNET customers to derive even greater value from their FileNET system by providing secure access to document types unique to the A/E/C market," said Michael W. Harris, senior vice president, Products and Strategy for FileNET. "We are pleased to expand our relationship with Cimmetry and extend their expertise to our customers."

"Cimmetry has been a FileNET ValueNETР’ВР'В® partner for many years," said Steve Birnam, Business Development Manager at Cimmetry Systems. "This new integration with Brightspire takes our solutions to a new level, delivering much needed functionality to customers requiring access to documents, no matter the format, from anywhere in the world, over an intranet, extranet or the Internet."

The upcoming release of AutoVue will be able to deliver real-time collaboration, enabling FileNET users to attend meetings with customers, suppliers, business-partners and employees and to view and markup documents, create change requests, and log and manage generated data directly within the FileNET environment.

To find out more about FileNET, please visit http://www.filenet.com. To download a fully functional evaluation version of AutoVue, please visit www.cimmetry.com or contact Cimmetry at 1-514-735-3219.

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 and markup package, providing native support for more than 200 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 as a Windows desktop application as well as a thin-client version, 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