IMSI Selects PDMOffice Design Lifecycle Management Solution for
TurboCAD
Agreement Brings State-Of-The-Art Design Collaboration Functionality to TurboCAD Users
NOVATO, Calif., Jan. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IMSI(R) (BULLETIN BOARD: IMSI) , a leading developer and publisher of precision design and consumer and business software solutions, today announced its plan to offer state-of-the-art design collaboration functionality through its strategic partnership with PDMOffice. This partnership makes available PDMOffice design collaboration functionality to TurboCAD users within their TurboCAD environment, allowing them to share documents with their peers, visualize CAD models (250+ formats supported), manage project timeline and related activities and hold design reviews in online meetings.
"PDMOffice provides customers with the most robust, easy-to-use, and scalable design collaboration solution in the marketplace," stated Rajiv Saxena, president and CEO, PDMOffice. "With this partnership, our solution seamlessly extends the TurboCAD framework to allow TurboCAD users to streamline their activities related to document management, project management and design reviews over the course of their CAD-related projects."
"Market forces such as distributed product development and time-to-market issues are requiring both CAD professionals and product OEM's to explore new ways of expediting their product development projects." Noted Bob Mayer, executive vice president of IMSI's Precision Design Division. "This partnership provides our users with a personalized workspace, rich with state- of-the-art design collaboration functionality, allowing them to bring winning products to market even faster."
Under the terms of the agreement, IMSI and PDMOffice plan to integrate PDMOffice Document Center, Project Desk, Product Center, and Meeting Center functionality with TurboCAD. The two companies will also cooperate to promote their combined solution through joint marketing activities, such as industry trade shows. PDMOffice Design Lifecycle Management Solutions are developed and owned by Rational Design, Inc.
About IMSI
Founded in 1982, IMSI has established a tradition of providing the professional and home user with innovative technology and easy-to-use, high-quality software products at affordable prices. The company maintains two business divisions. The Precision Design division, anchored by IMSI's flagship product, TurboCAD(R) and the DesignCAD(TM) line, also develops and markets other visual content and design software such as FloorPlan(R) 3D and TurboCADCAM. The division also includes several online properties focused on the sale of content and services to the architectural, engineering and construction market thru its stock house plans site at Houseplans.com and the online CAD symbol site, CADsymbols.com. The Consumer Software Solutions division, which is anchored by Allume Systems, Inc. (formerly Aladdin Systems, Inc.), provides small businesses and consumers with software solutions through its popular products such as StuffIt(R), Internet Cleanup(R), SpamCatcher(R), TurboProject(R), FormTool(R), FlowCharts&More(TM), HiJaak(R) and
TurboTyping(TM).
