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CONTACTS:Lynne Saunders415.227.3800 ext. 1140 lsaunders@actify.com Alison Wellington-Toth 760.294.6611 alison@wellington-toth.com ACTIFY "SPINFIRE FOR MICROSOFT OFFICE" NOW AVAILABLE IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGESAccess to 3D Digital Design Data Available to Japanese, French, German and English Microsoft Office UsersSan Francisco, CA - July 29, 2005 - Actify Inc., the worldwide leader in client-server design visualization and collaboration solutions for the high technology, automotive, aerospace, industrial automation and discrete manufacturing industries, today announced that SpinFire for Microsoft Office is now available to Japanese-, French-, German-, and English-speaking users worldwide. Now, enterprises that extend throughout multiple countries can leverage Actify's .3D format to access and distribute 3D & 2D CAD information via the Microsoft Office Platform to streamline the digital design communication process. "As an industry leader in the manufacturing and marketing of automotive products, we needed a digital design communication tool that would help us communicate CAD data between our automotive customers and our CAD/Engineering department," said Stephane Bodin, CAD Administrative Manager, Coopers Standard Automotive, based in France. "SpinFire for Microsoft Office delivered exactly what we were looking for. It helps us communicate problems and/or questions regarding 3D models with remote customers much more quickly and painlessly than before, improving overall collaboration inside and outside the company. Time and money is saved, as exchanging data used to be much more complicated and, often, not always clear. Also, the ability to give a PowerPoint file to a customer and permit them, through Actify Reader, to view the file with the 3D functionalities imbedded in it, is a feature that has benefited our customers ability to share the information internally. Overall, SpinFire for Microsoft Office has greatly improved the process by which our products are developed and manufactured, we anticipate benefiting from it for a long time to come." 
To access this interactive 3D file, without SpinFire for Microsoft Office, download Actify's free reader, SpinFire Reader from www.actify.com "Actify's SpinFire for Microsoft Office provides unparalleled access to 2D and 3D product design data from within the Microsoft Office platform," said Charles Johnson, worldwide managing director of manufacturing for Microsoft. "By accelerating the communication of design information to information workers throughout the enterprise and across the supply chain, companies will realize productivity gains that will bring products to market faster and ultimately improve their bottom line." SpinFire for Microsoft Office is an application that works within the Microsoft Office platform allowing knowledge workers to leverage Actify's .3D file format to easily embed and widely distribute 2D and 3D CAD design data across the enterprise. Using SpinFire for Microsoft Office allows users the ability to access 2D and 3D CAD design information directly from Microsoft Office. Designs can be embedded directly into Microsoft Office documents to assist with quoting and estimating, technical documentation, product specification, manufacturing process documentation, design review presentations, sales and marketing presentations, maintenance manuals, and more. "The inherent value of SpinFire for Microsoft Office to global users is that it allows the entire enterprise and its supply chain to gain greater visibility and access into design information that has typically been difficult to share with non-technical workers outside of engineering," said Randy Ochs, President and CEO of Actify Inc. "This brings 2D & 3D CAD information to a whole new level of end user by making CAD data available to anyone who uses the Microsoft Office platform for every day tasks." For more information or to purchase SpinFire for Microsoft Office, please visit www.actify.com. About Actify Inc.Founded in 1996, Actify Inc. is a privately held, award-winning global leader of client/server CAD visualization solutions. Actify's SpinFire product line provides the lowest total cost of ownership with the highest scalability across manufacturing industries and through their supply chains. The Actify SpinFire solution is sold through authorized distributors and Value Added Resellers in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Actify is headquartered in San Francisco, California. For more information please visit www.actify.com or call 415.227.3800. Product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. For further information please contact: pr@actify.com |
