EAI unveils e-Vis(TM), a revolutionary e-business solution

EAI unveils e-Vis^TM, a revolutionary e-business solution

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Engineering Animation, Inc. (Nasdaq: EAII) has announced e-Vis, a secure Web-based, project-focused solution that allows manufacturing companies to integrate seamlessly with their suppliers and create virtual project teams. e-Vis provides companies the ability to collaborate in real time across organization and geographic boundaries, capture knowledge about projects and ensure that project team members are always working with the most current information - all within a familiar, easy-to-use Web-browser interface. e-Vis is at various stages of deployment in several industry-leading organizations including Sauer-Sundstrand, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the National Reconnaissance Office. More information about e-Vis can be found at www.e-vis.com

In an era where manufacturers are using outsourcing as a competitive advantage and seeking to bring products to market faster than ever before,increased collaboration between manufacturers and suppliers is critical. e-Vis forges strong relationships between manufacturers and their high value suppliers by expanding secure access to information once available only to internal users and by providing a secure project space for information sharing, collaboration and e-commerce. e-Vis also helps companies meet the challenges of today's constantly changing business environment. By providing flexible, easy to use tools to support key projects, e-Vis makes the creation of globally dispersed project teams fast and efficient - allowing companies to create project teams,disband them on project completion and assemble new ones for new projects.

"Rather than worrying about having the right, up-to-date product information and struggling to meet time-to-market objectives, engineers can now focus on innovation and creating product designs that provide the best value", said Scott Beer, manager of information technology at Sauer-Sundstrand. "e-Vis represents a logical evolution of EAI's collaboration technology and will revolutionize extended enterprise communication for all manufacturing enterprises."

e-Vis enhances existing technology infrastructure such as CAD/CAM software,product data management (PDM) systems and enterprise resource planning (ERP)systems. By allowing users to create dynamic virtual project workspaces that take information created or stored in those systems and distributing that information across the extended enterprise, e-Vis builds on existing capabilities without adding complexity.

"Until today, the potential of the Internet to bring dramatic new efficiencies to the world of business-to-business collaboration remained untapped", said EAI President and CEO Matthew Rizai. "e-Vis takes Internet solutions to the next level by moving beyond transactions and focusing on collaboration -- which will be the next great wave of change on the Web. With e-Vis, companies can now have seamless interaction with their suppliers,partners and globally distributed design teams. This breakthrough solution is a natural extension of EAI's visual enterprise process management (VisEPMTM)solutions that provide communication, collaboration, visualization and analysis tools to the world's leading manufacturers."

Within the secure e-Vis workspace, teams can share documents and data,identify issues and problems and work to find solutions. While work is taking place, e-Vis captures project decisions and the decision-making process. The e-Vis conference center makes real-time collaboration between project team members as simple as initiating a conference call. With the e-Vis search and change notification tools, team members can stay abreast of changing information, accelerating the decision-making process in order to deliver projects on time and under budget.

The e-Vis platform ensures that multiple layers of security protect vital information. Hewlett Packard's Praesidium solutions, proxy-based virtual private networks, token authentication using tools such as SecureID from Security Dynamics Technologies, Secure Socket Layer protocol v3 for data stream encryption and other security systems all work to keep private data secure. e-Vis can be implemented using EAI's data center or on a corporate intranet.

"HP is pleased to be associated with a solution that fully taps the potential of the Internet by enabling seamless collaboration between companies and their suppliers", said Roberto Medrano, general manager of HP's Internet Security Division. "HP's Praesidium VirtualVault trusted Webserver platform is ideally suited to providing superior security for e-Vis. By combining e-Vis with Virtual-Vault, enterprises can safely collaborate on the Web with their partners. VirtualVault is unmatched for protecting important information while leveraging the flexibility of the Internet. It has been deployed in more than 110 financial institutions in 22 countries and is now being adopted by manufacturing enterprises that require unparalleled protection of their information assets".

For more information, visit EAI at www.eai.com