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Covisint Selects NexPrise and EAI for Collaborative Design and Quotation Management

18 October 2000

Covisint Selects NexPrise and EAI for Collaborative Design and Quotation Management

  Release 1.0 Suite of Products Features State-of-the Art Collaboration Tool

    DETROIT, Oct. 18 Covisint today announced the addition of
NexPrise and Engineering Animation, Inc. (EAI) to its family of best-of-breed
technology providers for the planned global trading exchange.  Covisint
Collaboration, a key tool in Covisint's Release 1.0 suite of products will be
powered by NexPrise's award-winning ipTeam(TM) platform and given
visualization by EAI's industry-leading e-Vis(TM), an Internet-enabled
collaboration solution.  Covisint Collaboration will allow customers to manage
product development projects across the Internet through private and secure
virtual project workspaces.
    This service offering will enable the integration and synchronization of
key program decisions and knowledge sharing for product development teams
distributed across geographies, organizations and supply chains.  The addition
of the NexPrise/EAI solution demonstrates Covisint's ability to seamlessly
integrate specific solutions within the overall structure of the product
offering developed by the Covisint Technology Partners, Commerce One and
Oracle.
    The functionality of Covisint Collaboration features secure file sharing,
workflow management, real time task tracking, CAD-agnostic visual
collaboration tools, virtual conferencing, application sharing and a multi-
media notebook to capture discussions for decision management and knowledge
sharing.
    In addition, NexPrise and EAI will complement buy-side and sell-side
functionality by supporting Covisint Quote Management, a suite of tools for
document management, inter-enterprise management and the collaborative bidding
process, including request for quote (RFQ) management and strategic sourcing.
    "It was important that Covisint's first suite of products address the need
for collaborative product development.  We believe the use of the Internet
will enable product development teams to achieve significant improvements in
time-to-market, innovation, quality and cost.  We look forward to working with
our customers very closely to support their future needs in this important
area," said Bob Matulka, Covisint Product Development Team.
    "NexPrise ipTeam is flexible and robust enough to support product
development needs immediately without requiring significant investments or
disruptions to existing legacy tools," continued Matulka.  "In addition, EAI's
two- and three-dimensional visualization supports all major CAD systems
currently used in the automotive industry allowing collaboration by many
partners.  Both providers also offered the commitment of leading software
providers to complement Covisint's vision to accelerate and enable automotive
e-Business."

    About Covisint
    Announced in February 2000, Covisint is an automotive e-business trading
exchange being formed by DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor Company, General Motors,
and Renault/Nissan.  Covisint will provide original equipment manufacturers
(OEMs) and suppliers the ability to reduce costs in their respective supply
chains and bring efficiencies to their business operations.  Covisint's
temporary headquarters are in Southfield, Mich., and it expects to establish
offices in Europe and Asia.
    Since being announced in February, a number of automotive suppliers have
publicly expressed their support for Covisint.  Those companies include: A.K.
Steel, ArvinMeritor, Autoliv, BASF, Dana Corporation, Delphi Automotive, Denso
International America, Dura, Ernie Green Corporation, Federal Mogul, Flex-n-
Gate, Freudenberg NOK, Johnson Controls, Inc., Lear Corporation, Magna
International, Plastech, Tower Automotive, Visteon and Yazaki International.