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Informative Graphics Announces Support for SolidWorks...

Informative Graphics Corp announces new functionality to visualize SolidWorks 3D model assemblies & parts, as well as view and redline the SolidWorks native 2D drawing format. For the first time, a user can interact visually with model assemblies, redline their related drawings and view design documentation in office or PDF formats - all under one common user interface, in one session, and in an IE, Netscape or non-browser viewing client. Model assemblies (SLDASM and SLDPRT files) created in SolidWorks can be visualized in MYRIAD 4. 1 when combined with the 3D option. Features of the MYRIAD/SolidWorks integration enable users to:

• Visualize assemblies, parts and drawings

• Browse by part name or identify by visual inquiry

• Create visual cuts, look through parts to expose others

• Measure against 3D model data or against interactively placed 2D cross sections

• Redline drawings with MYRIAD' s exclusive Changemarks feature that walks a reviewer through each annotated change

• Print banners and watermarks

• Employ out-of-the-box integrations to popular E/PDM systems

• Enjoy ease of use

The MYRIAD 3D option also supports visualization of models stored in IGES, STL and AutoCAD 3D files. MYRlAD provides viewing and redlining for native 2D CAD, plot, image, office and PDF formats. The combination of MYRIAD and SolidWorks expands and complements both packages' capabilities, giving you a full and robust design and viewing environment. Informative Graphics Corp., based in Phoenix, Ariz., is the leading manufacturer of commercial software products for the information viewing process. The company has been developing software for national and international end-users, OEMs and systems integrators since 1986. Informative Graphics maintains a home page on the World Wide Web at www.infograph.com.

New Wide-Format, Multifunction Color System From Oce'...

Oce' Engineering Systems brings all the proven strengths of its monochrome multifunction systems to the color market with a new suite of complete solutions based around the Oce' 5350-600 wide-format color printer. At the heart of this new multifunction system, the Oce' 5350-600 printer produces brilliant output, with both 42- and 60-inch width options. Whether the application is outdoor advertising, retail signage, maps, posters, education and training materials, legal imaging, exhibits or any other situation where large-format color printing is required, the high resolution 600 dpi output ensures exceptional results down to the finest details. Adding an Oce' 4700 Series Color Scanner and Color Copy Software allows for high-quality color copying and scan-to-file of hard-copy originals up to 36 inches wide. Oce' Color Copy Software provides one-touch digital color copies up to 60 inches wide. The Oce' 5350-600 is available to customers now with a base price of $13,995 with a 42" printer and increases with the addition of multifunction devices.

In another release, Oce' 0ffice Systems reduced the price of its flagship digital copier/printer, the Oce' 3165, by as much as 15 percent, driving the total cost of ownership below other leading multifunction units. The Oce' 3165, configured as a networked copier/printer or walk-up digital copier, operates at a copy/print speed of 62 images per minute (ppm) in both simplex and duplex mode. Combined with industry-leading reliability, very low supplies costs and enhanced digital functionality, the Oce' 3165 now offers the best life-cycle value in its speed range, especially at higher monthly volumes. For more information on Oce' Engineering Systems, Oce' Office Systems, and new developments in Oce's digital copier/printer/software product lines, call 800-714-4427 or find them on the World Wide Web at www.oce.com.

IKON Business Imaging Services Announces New Web Site...

Information about IKON Business Imaging Services can now be found on the Worldwide Web at http://www.ikon.com/ids by clicking on the Business Imaging Services link or http://www.ikon.com/services/bis. Features include major case studies in the banking, insurance, petrochemical, and other industries featuring some of these industries top leaders. The latest in press information and up-to-date news articles can also be found. New features in development include the IKON Speakers Bureau and sales managers’ photo and contact information.

Xerox Ships DocuShare 2.0...

Xerox Corporation today announced immediate availability of DocuShare 2.0, the company's flagship document sharing platform. DocuShare 2.0 includes significant new document repository management features and extensions that allow developers and value added resellers (VARs) to build customized knowledge sharing solutions. DocuShare 2.0 is also the first commercially available implementation of WebDAV, the emerging Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning standard endorsed by Netscape, Microsoft and Oracle among others. Support of WebDAV, ODMA 1.5, and XML also allows developers to build powerful, multi-platform solutions using DocuShare 2.0. The new DocuShare Windows Client provides a seamless interface between DocuShare servers and the end user's desktop. It also allows users to easily manage large document repositories in multiple locations across the Web.

Lotus Releases Domino.Doc 2.1...

Lotus announced the FCS of Domino.Doc 2.1 for Windows NT. Leveraging Domino.Doc 2.0's distributed document management platform, Domino.Doc 2.1 contains the final, fully documented API, providing significant areas for extending product development in vertical markets. With the new API, Business Partners and customers can now develop customized extensions of the Domino.Doc framework beyond traditional design and cosmetic changes. Developers can integrate other line of business applications via the documented programmable interface provided in Domino.Doc 2.1.

80-20 Software, Australian Based Company, Arrives in The United States...

Organizations can now include electronic mail messages among the records and files tracked in their enterprise document management system. Version 6.0 of Document Management Extensions for Microsoft Exchange (DME), released by 80-20 Software, enables organizations to manage, control, search and retrieve e-mail correspondence as part of a complete electronic document management solution. DME for Microsoft Exchange integrates with the Microsoft BackOffice family to deliver seamless and inexpensive document management to the Microsoft Exchange organization.

Internet Job Hunting Takes A Leap Forward...

BizBlast.com announces the release of the BizBlast Resumé Wizard. This free software wizard helps non-technical people create attractive Web-based resumés in just a few minutes. Using the BizBlast Resumé Wizard anyone with basic computer skills can post a stunning resumé online, selecting from a range of styles, colors, e-mail formats and icons, and even background melodies. These resumés are open to the public, though owners can password-protect their resumés if they wish; job hunters can include the URL pointing to their resumés in their e-mail messages and e-mail signatures, business cards, and business correspondence. Job seekers can create resumés and experiment with different colors and styles at no cost, and pay $19.95 - good for one year’s hosting and a free email account - if they decide to post the resumé to the Web. The Resumé Wizard, along with background information, is available for download at http://BizBlast.com/rez/.

Brooks Internet Software Announces New Product Release...

It's 9:55 a.m. and you've just completed the finishing touches on a report you're presenting at a 10:00 meeting. You initiate 10 copies of the job to print at an office printer down the hall. You cross the office to pickup the completed job only to find that the printer is down. INTELLIscribe, by Brooks Internet Software, Inc. can make these last minute headaches a thing of the past. Through this dynamic TCP/IP print client for Windows 9x platforms, you will receive notification that the destination printer failed, as well as which printer printed the job. As part of the company's Global Printing Solutions product line, INTELLIscribe offers increased Windows printing capabilities with a much lower cost of ownership than NT and Novell network servers. Commercial licensing begins at only $49 per license and volume, government, and educational discounts are available.

Cubus Corporation Releases ReviewIt 1.2...

Cubus Corporation today announced the release of ReviewIt 1.2, Internet collaboration software for business-to-business project collaboration. ReviewIt 1.2 features the core Cubus collaboration technologies the industry has come to expect, and further extends visual collaboration by supporting all major computer-aided design (CAD) and image packages. Like all ReviewIt collaboration tools, ReviewIt 1.2 provides a unique, virtual work site for project teams to share and review project documents, discuss and annotate drawings, contribute revisions and changes and track all project activity.

GLOVIA International Announces Availability Of Web-Enabled ERP...

GLOVIA International LLC, a joint venture between Fujitsu and MDIS, announced advanced capabilities from its technology partner PROIV that enables industry-standard Web browsers to deploy GLOVIA applications unchanged across intranets or extranets. PROIV JavaSuite enables the GLOVIA application to execute as a fully transactional client/server application on the Web or any Java-based client, without the need to use HTML or CGI programming. PROIV JavaSuite may be run as a fully functional Java application or as a Java applet within the Web browser and is ideally suited for GLOVIA’s customers who wish to deploy applications across different platforms throughout their organization.

Maxim I/T Releases Find?View V1.1...

Maxim I/T Inc. is changing the rules and challenging the limits with the release of Find?View, a data rich search engine for the Intranet. The innovative search engine is written exclusively using Java technology, and allows companies to access engineering and manufacturing information with unparalleled speed and simplicity. Accessible through either Internet Explorer, Netscape Browsers or stand-alone client, Find?View spiders through corporate Intranets and indexes information from various systems, servers, locations, directories and even supplier catalogs. Simply by using their browser, groups such as Sales, Marketing, and Purchasing can access information from ERP, PDM, CAD, etc. faster, enabling a more timely and comprehensive search.

Mesa Systems Guild Introduces Web-Based Project Management Collaboration...

Mesa Systems Guild, Inc., a provider of tools for web-based project management, introduced Mesa/VistaPM Pro. Mesa/VistaPM Pro is an innovative tool that creates a collaborative environment for multiple project teams of less than 100 people each. It provides project developers and managers the ability integrate multiple, active projects at the same time, managing and following each project using standard web browsers. Mesa/VistaPM Pro supports Microsoft Project and any project planning tool that uses Microsoft Project file format (MPX) such as Artemis Views, Primavera Project Planner and Scitor's Project Scheduler 7. Multiple projects can be simultaneously tracked by the project developer regardless of the manager's or the developer's location. It allows disparate development teams, using multiple tools, the ability to seamlessly integrate information for a unified environment. This access to collective knowledge without boundaries ensures a project has a successful productivity level.

Northern Development Group's SwiftView, PCL Application for PeopleSoft Systems...

Selectively printing pages 7-9 of a 200-page .LIS database report and viewing updates in Psoft Financials is fast, easy and tight with SwiftView. DIY, roll-up-your-sleeves MIS technologists at PeopleSoft sites have licensed SwiftView, and they're probably at the front of a wave. The comparative virtues of PCL (Printer Control Language) make it very attractive as a neutral, on-line file format, so the SwiftView reporting tools are a logical choice for PeopleSoft applications, as well as other applications that support PCL.

Radian Systems Releases XML-Based Products...

Radian Systems, Inc. announced the extension of its WSDOM family of products by releasing two software applications, WSDOM XML-Xpress and WSDOM XML-Portal, based on the Internet XML standard. These advanced applications, built around eXtensible Markup Language (XML), provide the means to take legacy data in any form and distribute it via the Internet. The products will be shown for the first time by the company at the AIIM '99 Show in Atlanta.

XML-based RightDoc 1.0...

RightDoc Company announces the immediate availability of RightDoc 1.0, an XML-based content management and publishing engine. RightDoc provides for the dynamic creation of XML documents in Enterprise or Web server based Visual Basic, C++, J++, Delphi, Excel, Access applications, etc., and extends the power of those applications by automatically creating visually appealing highly personalized XML-based forms, reports, billing statements, legal contracts, letters and more.

Savin Rounds Out Line of Digital Document Output Solutions...

Savin introduced its 9955DP, a 55 page-per-minute-system that brings high-resolution digital imaging to the mid-high volume segment. The 9955DP joins a Savin digital family that offers print speeds from 10 to 65 pages per minute, and that is ready to connect to today's most common computer networks. With the addition of a print controller, the 9955DP and 9965DP become powerful, all-purpose output devices that support operating systems on both PC and Mac platforms. This gives users the power to manipulate images, select paper types, and specify finishing options such as stapling, hole-punch, and collating right from their desktop computers.

StayAlive Crash Protection Software for Windows 95/98/NT...

TFI Technology Ltd announced the release of StayAlive 2.0b, the application crash protection software for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems. The product is a new generation crash protector combining unparalleled performance in an incredibly small package. Tests demonstrate that it out-performs leading competitors in recovering faults that are commonly found in Windows software. Weighing in at a mere 400Kb, this version incorporates a new protection scheme making it up to 30% better at recovering applications after a crash than the previous version. This, together with an improved user interface, make StayAlive 2.0 one of the best crash protection software available.

UDMS Announces Step2000 Release 6.0...

Step2000 Release 6.0, providing a number of significant enhancements to assist in developing software applications quickly and easily, is now shipping from Universal Document Management Systems, Inc. (UDMS). Included in this list of enhancements is the advent of "script procedures," or sub-routines. Step2000 offers an industry-leading technology for rapid application development, and this new feature allows developers to generate workflows even faster. Along with this enhancement is a "script validator." This developer-invoked utility provides for rapid script debugging and helps developers decrease script errors by detecting them earlier. A multi-developer project model is also included in Release 6.0, allowing application forms (screens) to be managed in separate source files. Now, it is even easier to develop/deploy/maintain multiple applications or an application developed by more than one developer. Extending Step2000's Web deployment is a feature to "preview" the Web form generated from within Step2000's Application Builder. This "preview" offers six modes of viewing, including interfaces to Netscape's Communicator and Microsoft's Internet Explorer browsers. Step2000's Web option is now available for Microsoft's Internet Information Server, along with the previous support for Netscape's Enterprise Server. A number of GUI performance enhancements have been made, along with a number of new script events to facilitate in-memory sorting of query results and new directory and printer selection dialogs.

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