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Newforma Announces Upcoming Release of Newforma Project Center Fourth Edition

Solution transforms AEC project information management from easier to smarter

Manchester, N.H.—July 17, 2007—Newforma, a software company addressing the project information management needs of the design and building industry, announced today the upcoming release of Newforma Project Center Fourth Edition. Currently in limited release at selected customer sites, Fourth Edition will be commercially available in early August. While previous versions of Newforma Project Center have made project information management easier and more effective for architects, engineers and constructors, Fourth Edition offers new, ground-breaking functionality that transforms project information management from easier to smarter.

More than 50 architectural and engineering firms, who are currently managing over 6,000 projects in Newforma Project Center, have provided guidance to Fourth Edition enhancements in the areas of project email management, search, and sharing project information via Newforma Info Exchange. In addition, Fourth Edition also offers new functionality to make project information management more intelligent. Examples include:

• Capturing the decision process around design review with the ability to create and record markup sessions, and the ability to link those sessions to the locations in the CAD drawing or BIM model under review
• Associating information streams together, such as an issue email trail with a markup session, for a fuller, linked view of the activities, discussions, and related information going on around a design
• Expanding Search to identify BIM building objects by their property descriptions in DWF, DWG and IFC files, which, added to the ability to find any search term inside emails, documents, drawings, external references and attachments, makes the need to tag files with metadata increasingly obsolete
• Offering complete out-of-office support for managing project email – via PDA, Outlook Web Access or offline laptop. The ability to file project email from anywhere consolidates the actions of responding to AND organizing email into one step.

“We are pleased to have been selected for limited release deployment of Fourth Edition,” said Morris Architects Director of IT Michael Kennedy. “Fourth Edition has vastly improved in the areas we had hoped for, and added some new functionality, as well. The new, intelligent column filters for project email management, combined with Newforma’s comprehensive Search functionality, will save our project teams upwards of hours per week, just by itself. The My Projects view will also help our project architects navigate easily from project to project, gaining a quick summary of the latest activity in each along the way.”

According to Newforma Vice President of Product Management and Industry Marketing Bob Batcheler, “Fourth Edition is the result of 12 months of engineering and four years of listening, learning, and observing how our customers work. This release, from the major new functionality, to the build-out of existing process support, to the tiniest tune-ups in work flow, reflects careful consideration of every nuance of AEC project process. We are thankful to have customers who have been so forthcoming with guidance and feedback on this release of our solution.”

Additional, in-depth details on the new features and functionality of Newforma Project Center Fourth Edition are available by clicking "download product sheet" at left .

About Newforma

Newforma is a software company serving architecture, engineering, construction and owner/operator (AECO) organizations worldwide. Its mission is to develop and market industry-leading software solutions which significantly improve the productivity of the building project team by streamlining work processes, reducing exposure from errors and omissions, improving coordination and communication, increasing visibility into costs and quantities, and enabling greater repeatability of project success. Newforma® Project Center, Newforma’s flagship product, creates a more productive environment for project managers and the project team by organizing project information, facilitating information exchange, and enabling efficient project process. Newforma Project Center is currently implemented on thousands of projects in industry-leading AECO firms. For more information about Newforma, visit www.newforma.com or phone +1-603-625-6212.

© 2007 Newforma, Inc. Newforma Project Center is a trademark of Newforma, Inc. in the United States and in other countries.  All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.

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