I-FIND 3.0

Press Release

A Company of the ECS WAMware Group

WAMware Announces I-FIND 3.0...
Integration Platform for I-DEAS, Unigraphics, Solid Edge and other leading CAD Systems

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — June 1, 2001 – WAMware and its joint venture partner ECS GmbH, leading providers of products and services for integrating enterprise product development, announced today the immediate availability of Version 3 of the I-FIND software product.

I-FIND is a web-based "pre-PDM" system that tracks and distributes CAD and related engineering data throughout the enterprise, allowing non-engineering users to access and evaluate design data without the need to operate a CAD system. For some companies this may eliminate (or postpone) the need for an enterprise PDM backbone. For larger companies that already have PDM in place, I-FIND can serve as an intermediary which enables a level of control and distribution for data before it is introduced into the PDM system, reducing overhead time and costs associated with PDM. I-FIND is simple, fast, and economical, provides significant functionality out-of-the-box, is extensible, and is available for Windows and Unix server platforms.

Early release customers are very excited about I-FIND 3.0… particularly with how I-FIND can integrate and distribute a variety of CAD datasets, including I-DEAS, Unigraphics and Solid Edge, plus Pro/E, Catia, and SolidWorks. With the recent EDS-initiated merging of SDRC and UGS, these I-FIND capabilities will be of great benefit in managing the inevitable co-existence of multiple CAD systems within major organizations.

The new I-FIND 3.0 release has been designed for amazingly quick implementation... minutes and hours, rather than weeks and months. Various modules of I-FIND can be downloaded for trial evaluation and then purchased on-line. Key elements of I-FIND 3.0 are:

In the spirit of the previous free I-FIND “command line” version installed at over 400 customer sites, we now provide the upgraded, web-based I-FIND Foundation, available immediately for free download. Users throughout the enterprise can then easily access and display CAD team data directly from their web browser. From this I-FIND Foundation customers can add site licenses of the various I-FIND packages and extensions (and of course, purchase and download these on-line).

The I-FIND Starter Package has pre-configured functionality to:

search multiple team data stores

generate and view PDF files for drawings

plot with one click

create watermarks for drawings

Additional I-FIND extensions are available for:

Folders that associate and connect documents describing engineering data to the data itself

Authentication to assign roles and access privileges

configuring I-FIND to search other CAD and MRP/ERP systems for engineering data

Actions that automate the generation of view files or derived data (vrml, jt, IGES, STEP, etc)

Full details, free downloads, trial evaluations, and on-line purchasing is available at:

www.wamware.com, Products, I-FIND

About WAMware

The ECS WAMware Group provides software and services for enterprise product development, delivering dramatic process improvements by "filling the whitespace" between CAD, PDM, ERP, SCM, and CRM. Our enterprise integration products feature... I-FIND, a web-based pre-PDM system for CAD and related data; and MetaKON, for proven out-of-the-box preconfigured PDM. Joint venture partners in the ECS WAMware Group are WAMware, located in Salt Lake City, Sunnyvale and Cincinnati; and ECS GmbH located in Neumarkt, Hamburg and Berlin, Germany.

www.wamware.com

Contacts:

WAMware Engineering Solutions, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA | +1.801.731.3325, Wayne McClelland
ECS GmbH, Neumarkt, Germany | Tel. +49.9181.4764-0, Wolfgang Dietzler

Note to Editors: WAMware is a registered trademark of WAMware Ltd.; I-FIND a trademark of WAMware Engineering Solutions LLC; and ECS and MetaKON trademarks of ECS GmbH. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective holders.