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CoCreate Joins Microsoft's Program for Collaborative Product Development

Posted on: Monday, 28 February 2005, 09:00 CST

FORT COLLINS, Colo., and SINDELFINGEN, Germany, Feb. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- CoCreate Software, Inc., a leading provider of flexible CAD and collaborative PLM software applications, today announced that it has joined Microsoft's Program for Collaborative Product Development (CPD).

The program, targeted at enterprise and mid-market manufacturers, helps companies employ collaborative product development processes. With these processes, companies

* Get more value out of information and investments they already have.

* Lower the costs of new product development.

* Reduce the time it takes to get new products to market.

The CPD Program helps industry-leading software vendors develop Microsoft-based solutions for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). The program delivers industry-specific solutions to manufacturers in automotive, consumer packaged goods, high technology, and other markets. Each individualized solution provides a flexible, scalable and reliable platform to the enterprise so businesses can integrate operations with partners and suppliers, acquire and share intelligence in real time and more easily communicate with customers.

"Collaborative product development brings the knowledge and expertise of the entire organization into product development, allowing manufacturing companies to introduce better products at a lower cost by utilizing more efficient manufacturing techniques," said Bill Gerould, Worldwide Discrete Manufacturing Industry Manager at Microsoft. "Microsoft's CPD program helps generate an ecosystem of solutions, such as CoCreate's OneSpace.net, that are built on Microsoft technology to enable improved communication and collaboration across the manufacturing enterprise."

OneSpace.net brings a unique and powerful concept to PLM called "federation." With federation, product development teams access information that resides in multiple places or enterprise systems from a single location. This allows product development team members both internal and external to the company to seamlessly access the most current version of information from a single location for faster and better decision making.

The Program for Collaborative Product Development includes leading PLM solution providers, all of whom are delivering solutions and services that address collaborative product development challenges and use Microsoft technologies such as Windows Server(TM) 2003, BizTalk(R) Server 2004, SQL Server(TM) 2000, and Microsoft Office InfoPath(TM) 2003.

"Collaboration is driving the innovation cycle in design, manufacturing and engineering. Companies see collaborative product development as a direct path to improve top line revenue growth," said William M. Gascoigne, CoCreate CEO. "Microsoft's Program for Collaborative Product Development represents a natural fit between CoCreate's expertise and Microsoft's platform."

About CoCreate

CoCreate's flexible CAD and collaborative PLM applications enable manufacturers to take advantage of changes within their supply chains and markets. Our software provides the competitive advantage manufacturers need to quickly adapt to new opportunities and gain sustainable top line growth.

Our mechanical CAD product, Designer Modeling, is for designers who need freedom to create and change 3D designs without misunderstandings or delay. Model Manager, a data management product, is for teams who can't afford to work on the wrong revision of a 3D CAD model or 2D drawing when creating assemblies. OneSpace.net collaboration software is for project teams who are overwhelmed by the complexity of a design process that stretches across sites, contractors, or outsourced teams.

We help teams design products, manage CAD data, and share ideas so they can reach their time-to-market goals.

CoCreate can be found in more than 30 countries and on the Web at http://www.cocreate.com/.

CoCreate is a trademark of CoCreate Software GmbH & Co. KG.

All other trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks belong to their respective holders.

CoCreate Software, Inc.

CONTACT: Todd Black of CoCreate Software, Inc. North America,+1-970-267-8120, todd_black@cocreate.com; or Reiko Tai of CoCreate SoftwareCompany, Japan/Asia-Pacific, +81.42.352.5938, Reiko_tai@cocreate.com; orThomas Roser of CoCreate Software GmbH & Co. KG, Europe, +49.7031.951.2208,thomas_roser@cocreate.com

Web site: http://www.cocreate.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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