Spicer Corporation Launches Online Meeting Solution For Any Business With ViewCafé 4

ViewCafé 4 adds hassle-free Live Document Conferencing to its collaboration toolkit and helps organizations save a bundle

Kitchener, ON, - May 23, 2006 - Spicer Corporation, the leading developer of document viewing software, announced the release of ViewCafé 4, featuring new Live Document Conferencing. When integrated to ECM or PLM systems such as FileNet, Hummingbird and MatrixOne, Spicer ViewCafé lets users easily access hundreds of different online office document, CAD drawing and model formats from a central file repository, add a markup session and then return the document with annotations and comments for others to review.

Secure, easy-to-use, and scalable, Spicer's web-based collaboration solution, helps organizations ramp up their business productivity. ViewCafé 4 now provides a real-time collaboration hub where any number of team members from any part of a business can participate in live document conferencing. Attendees access the same document simultaneously, chat, and share a view-markup session, regardless of geographical location.

With ViewCafé 4, organizations such as Manufacturing, Government, Financial and Insurance Services centered around online document workflow will benefit from:

- Improved operational costs 

- View, mark up and collaborate with one product. Document conferencing is built-in to ViewCafé 4 - eliminating additional product or subscription and usage charges. 

- Faster real-time document interactivity 

- Online viewing activities, such as zooming and rotating, require large data transfers resulting in slower performance with traditional web conferencing solutions. ViewCafé 4 provides faster display and document interaction. 

- Easily archive web conference notes and meet information compliance requirements - ViewCafé markup APIs allow web conference Chat Notes and other markup commentary to be stored and managed within the document management system for audit trail and compliance regulation purposes.

Additional improvements in Release 4 include:

- Expanded symbol library that includes new set of ISO standard hazard symbols for detailed document tracking and identification 

- New Measurement Tools that help users estimate CAD drawing specifications (even during an online conference) 

- UI enhancements include the addition of a new 3D toolbar that allows users to easily switch between display modes

ViewCafé 4 also introduces support for several new formats, including:

- SolidWorks 2005 drawings 2D 

- SolidWorks 2005 Parts and Assemblies 3D 

- PDF 1.6 (Adobe Acrobat 7.0) 

- JT 2.0 Model 

- AutoCAD 2005 

- AutoCAD 2006

The ViewCafé Server is available for Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Red Hat Linux 7.2. ViewCafé's flexible pricing model provides options for fixed, enterprise and OEM licensing. 

About Spicer Corporation

Spicer Corporation is a worldwide supplier of scalable, universal view-markup and collaboration solutions that improve the return on investment for organizations with ECM, CM, PDM, PLM, ERP, and other corporate information systems. Spicer's visualization, collaboration, redaction, and scanning solutions are used globally in Manufacturing, Government, Utilities, Insurance and Financial Services, and Reprographics markets.

www.SPICER.com

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