AUTOVUE PROVIDES VISUALIZATION AND COLLABORATION FOR HUMMINGBIRD DM

Support for legacy markups and XREFS generated by Hummingbird's CAD integration and view-markup modules, makes upgrading to AutoVue an easy choice for users.

Montreal - February 24, 2003

Cimmetry Systems, Inc., the global leader in Visualization and Collaboration solutions for the A/E/C, Engineering, Manufacturing and Electronics markets, today announced that AutoVue integrates with Hummingbird DMTM, an integral component of Hummingbird EnterpriseTM. Cimmetry will be showcasing AutoVue for Hummingbird DM at Hummingbird Summit 2003 in Orlando, Florida, February 23-25, from booth #400.

Hummingbird users can view and markup over 200 different 2D/3D CAD, engineering, EDA and office document formats, directly from within their DM interface. Cimmetry's out-of-the-box integration, which seamlessly merges AutoVue with Hummingbird DM, allows users to view, markup, compare and collaborate on documents, regardless of format, without leaving their familiar environment and without requiring the authoring applications. AutoVue's printing functionality allows users to add attributes, pulled from "document business objects", as headers, footers or watermarks.

"Hummingbird DM users, from across the enterprise and throughout the supply chain, now have a sophisticated best-in-class viewing and markup solution tailored to their needs," said Andrew Pery, chief marketing officer, senior vice president, Hummingbird Ltd. "AutoVue can natively display an unsurpassed number of file formats, and in supporting legacy Hummingbird markup data, provides a straightforward upgrade path for users."

"Cimmetry has long partnered with Hummingbird to bring users easy access to product and process data, regardless of format, directly from within Hummingbird DM," said Steve Birnam, manager of business development at Cimmetry. "With the timely integration for Hummingbird DM and support for markups and XREFS created by Hummingbird's legacy CAD integration and view-markup modules, Cimmetry once more demonstrates why AutoVue is the solution of choice for Hummingbird DM users."

Cimmetry's AutoVue leverages corporate knowledge, when providing collaborative document review processes, engineering and architectural project management, maintenance reviews, and product lifecycle management in discrete manufacturing. Formats supported include: AutoCAD, MicroStation, CATIA, UG, Pro/E, SolidWorks, Mentor, Cadence, MS Office, PDF, TIFF, etc. All AutoVue products are available as Windows desktop or thin-client, server-based solutions. To download a fully functional evaluation version of AutoVue, please visit www.cimmetry.com

About Hummingbird

Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Hummingbird Ltd. is a global enterprise software company employing 1300 people in nearly 40 offices around the world. Hummingbird's revolutionary Hummingbird EnterpriseTM, an integrated information and knowledge management solution suite, manages the entire lifecycle of information and knowledge assets. Hummingbird Enterprise creates a 360-degree view of enterprise content with a portfolio of products that are both modular and interoperable. Today, five million users rely on Hummingbird to connect, manage, access, publish and search their enterprise content. For more information, please visit: http://www.hummingbird.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