SDRC Announces MetaDM Software

20 October 1998

SDRC Announces MetaDM Software

    CINCINNATI--Oct. 20, 1998--SDRC , the leading global provider of product development solutions and developer of IDEAS(TM) and Metaphase(R) Enterprise(TM) software, today announced Metaphase Document Manager (MetaDM(TM)), with version 3.1 of its Metaphase(R) Enterprise(TM) Product Data Management (PDM) software.
    MetaDM is the document management component of the new Metaphase Enterprise Solution Series(TM), which builds on Metaphase's powerful enterprise architecture with a line of packaged, web-centric products designed to speed the time to production implementation. MetaDM was developed with input from Metaphase customers, including Visteon Automotive Systems and ABB, to provide out-of-the-box document management functionality that builds on the global PDM foundation of Metaphase Enterprise.
    "When companies make a sizeable enterprise IT investment, they want to leverage it as much as possible across their organization," said Robert Nierman, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of SDRC. "Now Metaphase can meet their business objectives for enterprise PDM and enterprise document management. The same solution that manages all their product data can manage their documents as well, all within a single web-centric, enterprise framework."
    "It's not so much SDRC's individual strategic initiatives that bring success, it's the customer friendly way that they put them together that makes the difference," said Charles Foundyller, President and CEO, Daratech, an analyst group that tracks the PDM market. "Document management is what enterprise PDM users demand, and SDRC delivers."
    To address the authoring needs of Metaphase's largest user population, MetaDM fully integrates data management capabilities with Microsoft Office applications. Simple pull-down menus within Office allow users to save documents to Metaphase. By publishing documents in the enterprise PDM system, companies manage all design/engineering data in one infrastructure. This extends the business value of product documents, so they can be shared across the business enterprise, including entitled suppliers, business allies, and customers.
    MetaDM software also provides web-centric workflow, version control and query features, and employs industry-leading technologies from Adobe and Verity. MetaDM allows users to create files in Adobe's portable document format (PDF), the industry standard for universal documents, so they can be routed directly to reviewers' e-mail inboxes for viewing and markup. From any standard web browser, users can also engage MetaDM's powerful Verity search engine for attribute- or content-based searches. Users can quickly find product documents, along with the rest of the PDM system's product data -- including concept designs, engineering data, validation test results, design notes, interoffice communications, and product configurations.
    SDRC (Structural Dynamics Research Corporation) is a leading international supplier of integrated Mechanical Design Automation software, Product Data Management software, and related services. The Company's products and services help manufacturers optimize product concepts early in the design process, enabling them to significantly improve product quality while reducing product development time and cost. SDRC employs more than 2,200 people and has 64 offices in 16 countries throughout North America, Europe, and Asia/Pacific. SDRC's market-leading PDM solution, Metaphase, is developed, marketed and supported by the Metaphase Technology Division of SDRC.
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    Note to Editors: SDRC and Metaphase are registered trademarks and Metaphase Enterprise, MetaDM and Metaphase Enterprise Solution Series are trademarks of Structural Dynamics Research Corporation. All other trademarks or registered trademarks belong to their respective holders.