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Businesses of all types have a need to exchange various types of information between suppliers, partners and customers. In most industry segments, this data takes one of two shapes: either unstructured data represented as documents, or structured data represented as forms. By way of example, consider the insurance industry. A description of the benefits of a policy typically is available to be downloaded or printed from a word processing document, or as an Adobe PDF file; whereas the data regarding a particular customer's policy—such as limits of liability, customer contact information, limits of coverage, etc.—are represented as a form which is the same for every customer of the same classification. Add the ability to handle attachments such as pictures (think of an accident claim), and you have the ability to handle the data requirements for almost every industry.

But not so in manufacturing. Enterprises that produce hard goods have a unique requirement. The data which defines the product they are producing—whether it is a wheel or the whole car—is created with a proprietary computer-aided design application that is both complex to use and very expensive to own. The benefits of these applications are manifold, and the investments in them frequently huge, thus limiting their distribution to a segment of the engineering community. If you are one of the manufacturing industry knowledge workers, and you need access to the product data generated by these applications—tough. No one makes a complete solution for your needs. Something that puts the power of full access to the product data—without compromising the source data—onto your desktop, in an environment that you use every day.

Until now. Need to simply view the product data? Check out SpinFire Reader. Have the requirement to repurpose that product data using Microsoft Office? Take a test drive of SpinFire for Microsoft Office. How about the ability to view and markup the product data for collaboration purposes or shop floor utilization? Your solution is our flagship product SpinFire Professional. Are you looking for something to help you manage all that information? DesignShare is a solution incorporating our SpinFire technology into Microsoft SharePoint, and is perfect for getting that "rogue data" under control.