Launches Collaboration Suite Hosted Engineering Solution
New offering makes Engineering Collaboration more affordable and quick to deploy
Toronto, Ontario, October 18, 2004 ENGINEERING.com Inc. [TSXV:EGN] today released the ENGINEERING.com Collaboration Suite, a hosted collaboration solution for manufacturers based on technology from BlueSky Solutions LLC and Actify, Inc. Complete with file viewing, collaboration, project management and workflow, the ENGINEERING.com Collaboration Suite helps companies manage their new product introductions across distributed design and manufacturing teams.
ENGINEERING.com is an Internet-based business committed to delivering best-in-class engineering solutions to the global engineering community. Actify is the worldwide leader in design visualization solutions for the high technology, automotive, industrial automation and discrete manufacturing industries. BlueSky Solutions is a leading provider of web based collaboration solutions for global outsourced companies. Together, these companies’ products address the needs of manufacturers to extend their design data beyond their engineering departments, with the ease of implementation and economy of a hosted solution.
“We were the first customer to purchase the ENGINEERING.com Collaboration Suite to help us manage product launches and coordinate our design requirements with our primary manufacturers in China,” said Monty Allen of IN ZONE Brands Inc. of Austell GA. “With Collaboration Suite, our suppliers can communicate with us without having to use their CAD systems, and we can manage our projects collaboratively without resorting to faxes, FTP or email. The investment was surprisingly small, and the return has been immediate.”
“At ENGINEERING.com, we believe in providing hosted solutions that are proven to be lower risk, faster to deploy and lower cost for small and mid-sized manufacturers. Our search for the world’s best engineering collaboration applications led us to select technology from BlueSky and Actify as the foundation for this new offering,” stated John Hayes, President of ENGINEERING.com.
Chad Poole, President of BlueSky added “Our Alventive solution is in use at leading manufacturers, such as GE Medical Systems Inc.; Hitachi Ltd.; and Waterloo Industries Inc. Through our partnership with ENGINEERING.com we have made our collaboration solution more accessible for North American manufacturers who can now be up and running in hours.”
“We are convinced that no other visualization solution comes close to Actify in providing such a rich set of features that can be called ‘true’ digital design communication," said Randy Ochs, President and CEO of Actify. “We are pleased to partner with ENGINEERING.com to offer our industry-leading viewing technology on a subscription basis so that product management teams can more readily share their critical design data with suppliers, customers, and internal users.”
