EROOM TECHNOLOGY DELIVERS AUTOVUE'S INDUSTRY-LEADING CAD VISUALIZATION AND MARK-UP CAPABILITIES TO DIGITAL WORKPLACE USERS

Easy Access to Technical Data Improves Project Quality, Reduces Costs; More Than 200 Engineering and Business File Formats Supported

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov.18, 2002

eRoom Technology, Inc., a leading provider of products and services for extended enterprise collaboration, and Cimmetry Systems Inc., the leader in Visualization and Collaboration solutions for the A/E/C, Engineering, Manufacturing and Electronics markets, announced today the immediate availability of the eRoom Viewer for CAD Visualization. Built upon Cimmetry Systems' award-winning AutoVue technologies, the eRoom Viewer for CAD Visualization provides distributed product design teams with seamless Web browser access to technical product data from within their eRoom digital workplaces. From change order management to new product design and approval processes, team members can view, markup, print, and share technical drawings among peers, supply chain partners and customers, helping to significantly improve engineering design products and processes. The thin-client eRoom Viewer for CAD Visualization provides Web-based 2D / 3D CAD and EDA file viewing and markup of product data with support for more than 200 engineering and business file formats.

"An integral part of all new product development efforts is the geometric engineering data that is shared between functional groups, both inside an organization and within client and supplier sites, to improve product quality and decision-making," said Jeffrey Beir, president and chief executive officer for eRoom Technology, Inc. "The eRoom Viewer for CAD Visualization enables our customers to share engineering product data as part of a larger collaborative process, ushering in a new era of strategic decision-making based on easily accessible geometric data throughout the collaborative product development lifecycle."

"We are delighted to provide our AutoVue Visualization and Collaboration technology to eRoom Technology," said Alain Danik, business development manager at Cimmetry. "The eRoom solution's collaborative environment breaks through the geographic, temporal and departmental barriers that have traditionally stood between the various stakeholders involved in a product's development and maintenance cycle. Combined with Cimmetry's market leading Visualization technology, eRoom digital workplaces provide an outstanding solution for a multitude of verticals including Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, Financial Services and Government."

"Delivering innovative designs that are successful in a highly competitive merchandising environment requires close working relationships between functional groups that range from designers and artists to marketing professionals and manufacturers," said Mark McSwain, Director Business Systems and Data Warehousing for the William Carter Company, one of the oldest and largest branded marketers of premium infants' and children's apparel in the U.S. "The eRoom Viewer for CAD Visualization will eliminate more costly and time-consuming methods of sharing and annotating design concepts across these functional groups, enabling us to reduce times-to-market and significantly enhance our existing eRoom digital workplace environment.

From engineering to manufacturing to project management applications, the eRoom Viewer for CAD Visualization provides users with a reliable and secure means of sharing engineering data across the extended enterprise. With the eRoom Viewer for CAD Visualization, cross-functional teams can leverage a single uniform interface to natively view, print and markup a wide range of CAD formats, without the need for authoring applications. The eRoom Viewer for CAD Visualization provides users with access to a wide variety of CAD visualization services, such as the ability to pan, zoom, spin, rotate or transform engineering drawings, view cross-sections of manufacturing parts or assemblies, access precision measurement tools, manipulate product components, manage external referenced files, or mark-up and annotate technical drawings in a collaborative setting.

Accessed through new menu choices within the eRoom digital workplace solution, the eRoom Viewer for CAD Visualization leverages the eRoom solution's collaborative infrastructure to provide users with sophisticated access control and version tracking capabilities, e-mail notification and alert functionality, approval process support, and real-time meeting capabilities.

The eRoom Viewer for CAD Visualization provides a thin-client visualization and collaboration solution that supports over 200 native geometric and office file formats directly in a Web browser, without requiring the authoring applications. Formats supported include 2D CAD documents (AutoCAD, Microstation, etc.), 3D assemblies and parts (Pro/E, CATIA, SolidWorks, Unigraphics, etc.), EDA formats (Gerber, ODB++, etc.), and office documents (MS Office, Adobe, Visio, TIFF, etc.).

Four versions of the eRoom Viewer for CAD Visualization are available to customers, offering capabilities ranging from 2D view-only to comprehensive 2D/3D view and annotate CAD file support. In this way, enterprise customers can easily match their specific organizational requirements to the eRoomViewer for CAD Visualization. More information about eRoom Technology and the eRoom Viewer for CAD Visualization can be found at www.eroom.com.

About eRoom Technology

eRoom Technology is a leading provider of extended enterprise collaboration software and services which enable organizations to work more closely with their customers, suppliers, and business partners. The eRoomР’ВР'В® digital workplace brings together the work, the tools and the team, enabling organizations to manage the collaborative activities that support their complex and rapidly-changing business projects and processes. Customers use eRoom digital workplaces to help get products to market faster, drive down production costs, enhance customer relationships, and improve the work products that drive their businesses. The eRoom solution is used by more than 650 companies, including, Airbus, A.T. Kearney, Aventis Pharmaceutical, BIC, Bausch & Lomb, Compaq, Deloitte Consulting, EDS, Flextronics, Ford Motor Company, Hewlett-Packard, Ketchum, Mercer Consulting, Pharmacia, Pfizer, Siemens, Solectron, and Sony. More information about eRoom Technology and its product offerings can be found at www.eroom.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 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