Quakertown, Penn., May 4, 2004--Synergis Software, a division of Synergis Technologies Inc., today announced that it is shipping version 5.2 of its award-winning engineering document management solution, Synergis® Adept™. Tightly integrated inside each design application, Adept's document management tools provide AutoCAD® 2005, Autodesk Inventor® 8 Series, Autodesk Inventor® Professional 8, and SolidWorks® 2004 users the ability to find and manage data, ensure revision control, and control access to information on a LAN, WAN, or the Internet. The new release also features Shared Work Areas, a new real time design and collaboration environment, as well as other customer requested features that enhance performance and productivity.

"With the tremendous pressure to reduce development time and costs across all industries, Adept 5.2 helps engineers collaborate and communicate more effectively during the work in progress stage of design," says David Sharp, president of Synergis Software and chief executive of Synergis Technologies. "Adept now provides a flexible design environment where multiple people can work simultaneously on the same design and share design changes. Designers will be better able to interpret and incorporate design changes and eliminate duplicate work."

Customers Applaud Adept Software's New Capabilities

Delivering on its strategy to provide powerful document management solutions that are simple to use and maintain, Synergis Software works closely with its customers to identify, prioritize, and then develop new capabilities. Beta test customers of Adept 5.2 have been responding enthusiastically to the new version.

"The new Shared Work Areas feature in Adept 5.2 combines the power of document management with flexible project control from conception to completion," says Dave Anderson, CAD supervisor at Ferrotec Corporation, in Nashua, N.H. "Adept's Shared Work Areas creates a real time collaborative environment, where designers, engineers, and manufacturers—whether they are in-house or in a manufacturing plant in China—can edit and approve work-in-progress drawings much faster. With Adept, we have reduced the number of project revision cycles and greatly increased our turnaround time."

New Feature Highlights

Synergis Adept 5.2 includes new functionality that addresses the continuing need for more sophisticated data management tools:

Shared Work Areas—Advancing faster design review and communication, Adept 5.2 allows multiple designers to access the same work-in-progress area, where quick changes can be made and reviewed by any member of the Shared Work Area.

AutoCAD 2005 Support—Synergis Adept 5.2 will give customers the ability to view, track, revise, and manage documents created with the latest AutoCAD release. Adept automatically extracts attributes, xrefs, and thumbnails of AutoCAD 2002 through 2005 files. Support for Sheet Sets is planned for a follow on release.

Autodesk Inventor 8 Integration—When running Inventor 8 and higher with Adept 5.2, Inventor software's Model Browser now includes a drop-down menu for Adept, which displays Adept's relationship tree inside the Inventor browser window. Adept makes it easy to locate, sign out, identify the status of, and edit models in place, while maintaining the integrity of all inter-relationships between parts, assemblies, and drawings.

Autodesk Inventor Professional 8 Integration—Adept 5.2 now supports Inventor software's Cable & Harness and Tube & Pipe applications. When creating a tube and pipe assembly, Adept automatically gathers all the components together and places them in an Adept work area, where a user has complete control over where the components are saved. All standard tube and pipe components are handled by Adept and automatically signed into the Adept piping library.

Powerful Viewing Capabilities—Adept 5.2 software includes an updated version of its Cimmetry AutoVue 2D/3D viewer, which enables users to view AutoCAD 2005 DWG, Inventor 8 IDW, and Autodesk DWF files. The Adept viewer extends a company's ability to collaborate with project teams, contractors and customers over a LAN, WAN, or across the Internet.

"We are committed to keeping pace with the latest versions of our strategic CAD partners, while providing the essential, detailed enhancements our customers request," says Joe Gasper, director of Adept Technical Services. "Adept 5.2 addresses the needs of both new and long time users who require a flexible, cross-CAD platform solution."

Pricing and Availability

Synergis Adept 5.2 is available worldwide at a suggested retail price of US $995/concurrent license. An annual software subscription, which ensures customers all new product releases for 12 months at no additional charge, is available for $179/concurrent license. Customers on subscription can upgrade to Adept 5.2 at no charge. Non-subscription customers can upgrade from earlier versions as follows: •Adept 5.1 to 5.2 is $199 per license •Adept 5.0 to 5.2 is $299 per license •Adept 4.X to 5.2 is $399 per license. Synergis Adept software is available directly from Synergis and through strategic resellers across the United States. To download a video demo or to register for an Adept 5.2 Webcast, which are scheduled on a regular basis to demonstrate the features and benefits of the Synergis solution, please visit www.synergis-adept.com.

About Synergis Adept
The award-winning Synergis Adept software is a proven engineering document management solution that is uniquely tailored toward the demands of engineering departments that need to manage, view, redline, track revisions and share work-in-progress 2D/3D drawings, parts and assemblies. Adept automatically extracts attributes, xrefs, and properties from AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, and SolidWorks files and "learns" about the relationships between drawing, xref, assembly, and part files. Adept also manages valuable where-used and composed-of information.

Adept facilitates collaboration between departments and remote design teams, ensuring access to the latest revision and streamlining engineering change processes. Adept's built-in Viewer displays, prints and redlines more than 250 file formats, including SolidWorks, Autodesk 2D/3D and Microsoft Office files.

Unlike other inter-departmental or high-end enterprise solutions, Adept is simple to implement, use, and maintain in a workgroup environment, between engineering and non-engineering departments, or across the entire organization. Adept's unique vaulting technology provides document security without file encryption, and gives cross-geographic users the power of a central database with remote document vaults.

Adept is ready to use out-of-the-box with no need for customization. It provides a centralized database for controlling documents without the need for additional database software, web services, or added client-access database licenses. It includes unlimited remote vaults to deliver an unbeatable price/performance value.

About Synergis Software
Synergis Software, a division of Synergis Technologies Inc., develops, markets, sells, and supports its industry-leading engineering document management solutions, Synergis® Adept™. Synergis Adept is a simple and affordable engineering document management software that supports multiple CAD platforms for manufacturing, architectural design and construction, government, civil engineering, and other related industries. Synergis Adept helps design, engineering, and other business departments reduce concept-through-manufacturing cycle time, eliminate costly document and revision errors, improve engineering change processes, and enhance collaboration between local and geographically distributed workgroups. Synergis Software has partnerships with Autodesk, SolidWorks, Graphisoft, ARCHIBUS, and Cimmetry Systems Inc., with other alliances planned for the future. For more information on Synergis Software, visit www.synergis-adept.com.