Ford Selects Centor's XML Solution For Global Materials collaboration

    IRVINE, Calif., May 8 Centor Software Corporation, an XML
application provider of collaborative commerce solutions, today announced that
Ford Motor Company has completed its pilot testing and is deploying
into production the Centor Materials Identification and Validation
application.  Centor's patent-pending technology driving the Materials
Identification and Validation application provides vital search and retrieve
functionality to deliver information sooner, and empowers users to select the
ideal materials based on various constraints for use in product designs.

    Centor and Ford worked together to develop the most cost-effective and
efficient way to capture, analyze, exchange, query, and correlate pertinent
information about materials properties.  Previously, that data had been stored
in diverse data sources which made it time-consuming, expensive, and nearly
impossible to access and correlate.  Using the Centor materials application,
which utilizes XML and HTML technologies to analyze and retrieve complex
product data, critical Ford Global Materials Database (FGMD) information is
now leveraged throughout the product development lifecycle to address
engineering, design, and quality requirements; plus enabling users from other
activities such as manufacturing to have access to materials information.

    "Collaboration throughout the design process can be significantly
accelerated when structured and unstructured data is correlated and then
processed with disciplined business logic," said Michael Walther, Centor's
CEO.  "XML applications, like this one at Ford are attracting tremendous
interest across numerous industries.  Centor provides an efficient and
cost-effective alternative to traditional applications based on RDBMS
technology."