Actify Introduces SpinFire™ 5.0 Product Family - The First Scalable Design Access And Visualization Solution

Customer-Hosted Client-Server Solution Targeted for Automotive, Aerospace, Manufacturing, Packaging and AEC Industries

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif— September 16, 2002—Actify, a leading supplier of design access and visualization solutions, today introduced its new SpinFire 5.0 product family. SpinFire products provide the first scalable solution enabling companies to host, share and manage product design information securely, regardless of the CAD file type, across an entire enterprise via the corporate network and Internet. SpinFire empowers organizations to distribute design information simply and effectively while controlling access to designs by individual users, departments, suppliers and customers.
   
The SpinFire 5.0 product family includes SpinFire Enterprise (server); SpinFire Professional (client); SpinFire CAD Importers (convert and compress native CAD files into .3D formats); SpinFire Viewer (allows guests and non-CAD users to view .3D files); and SpinFire SDK (integration toolkit).
   
SpinFire Enterprise deploys as a cost-effective standalone server-based solution or integrates with a company's existing PLM, PDM, ERP or EDM environment. The solution scales easily from a single server configuration to multiple servers without requiring complex network or firewall configurations.
   
"SpinFire Enterprise delivers the design access and visualization components that are an essential first step to product lifecycle management," says Mike Walsh, president and CEO of Actify. "The server is easy to deploy, easy to use and produces an ROI that is realized in months rather than years."
   
A winner of CADENCE Magazine's Editors' Choice Award, SpinFire Professional serves as the desktop client to the SpinFire Enterprise server and allows users to interactively view, measure and markup CAD designs. SpinFire Professional features a standard Windows interface that is easy to use and requires no specialized training or CAD experience. The multilingual SpinFire Professional supports English, German, French, Japanese, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Thai and Korean.
   
The SpinFire solutions enable everyone in product design, procurement, manufacturing, sales and service to access design information and related documents without requiring a CAD system. Companies realize cost savings and productivity gains in such processes as design review, quoting, estimation, procurement, RFQ response, retooling, sales and marketing, and service and repair.
   
"Our mission is to make CAD data accessible and understandable to everyone involved in the product lifecycle," says Walsh. "SpinFire Enterprise enables companies to leverage the value of their CAD data by making product designs more accessible to a larger audience, improving communication, increasing productivity and cutting costs."
   
SpinFire converts large CAD models and drawings into compact .3D file formats that distribute as easily as sending an email. The server's advanced security features allow the .3D files, which can compress to just 10% of the original CAD file's size, to be shared worldwide without IT issues like firewalls and email size limitations. SpinFire Enterprise's Share Tracking feature helps to shorten the product review cycle by monitoring and recording exactly when files have been shared, opened and reviewed.
   
SpinFire Enterprise 5.0 Features

General Features

• The server stores, organizes and manages any file using a Windows-style interface.
• Server-side importers convert all major CAD formats to .3D files.
• Synchronized conversions automatically create a new .3D file whenever the native file changes.
• Supports load balancing and clustering at three different levels: SpinFire web services, SQL database and SpinFire publishing.
• Advanced session and file locking system allows users to access shared data and resources without interfering with one another.

• SSL-encrypted connection ensures a private, safe environment for sharing files.
• Client access to the server is executed only after passing three security controls: SSL, User Authentication and Client Authentication.
• Proprietary security certificate system validates legitimate client programs.
• Server sends an alert to the system administrator or another e-mail address every time files are shared outside the SpinFire user account base.
• Accounts disabled after repeated failed logins.

• One-hour installation includes all major configurations for the server, file system, Microsoft Internet Information Server and mail server.
• Scalable multi-server architecture is customizable to individual company needs with no restrictions due to company size, locations, users, etc.
• Integrates easily with existing backend systems including PDM, PLM, ERP, CRM, and SCM systems (using SpinFire SDK).
• Free Viewer automatically installs in guest user's browser and provides access to .3D files for occasional users.
• Organizes into groups with different permissions and access rights.
• Centralized account control to easily disable and enable accounts according to company policy and user behavior or roles.

• Completely new, more intuitive and easier to use interface.
• Simplified access to recent file shares, recent documents and SpinFire Enterprise Server accounts.
• Library component to browse files on local disks, network disks, or any SpinFire Enterprise Server.
• New viewer adds Microsoft Office, Acrobat PDF, and image file viewing to powerful 3D/2D features.
• Share Wizard allows users to share files with both SpinFire users and non-users.
• Share Tracking monitors and timestamps user access and views of shared files.
• New SpinFastTM technology provides fast, dynamic viewing of large 3D models.
• Simplified administration to automatically activate application and create a SpinFire.NET account.
• Open architecture enables Actify or customers to easily add new components.

About Actify
Actify is a market-leading supplier of visualization and communication solutions for the automotive, aerospace, manufacturing, packaging and AEC industries. Actify's SpinFire product family enables companies to leverage CAD data throughout the product lifecycle by seamlessly delivering design information across the organization and to customers and vendors. By making design information easily accessible and understandable to a wide range of people, Actify's SpinFire product suite enables companies to cut communication costs, reduce development cycles, avoid costly rework and identify cost savings early in the development process. Further information on Actify and its products is available at http://www.actify.com/.

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