BlueCielo Extends Viewing Capabilities through OEM Agreement with Oracle

Customers to benefit from the superior visualization technology of Oracle’s AutoVue embedded in InnoCielo Engineering Content Management solutions.

Rijswijk, The Netherlands – BlueCielo ECM Solutions, a leading global software company offering Engineering Content Management (ECM) solutions, announced today that it has signed an OEM agreement with Oracle – a move that will allow its customers to benefit from the enhanced visualization capabilities of Oracle’s AutoVue 2D Professional in BlueCielo’s pioneering InnoCielo solutions.

AutoVue 2D Professional, the industry leading visualization solution, will be embedded into the entire InnoCielo suite of ECM solutions from the upcoming 2009 release onwards. With the introduction of AutoVue 2D Professional into InnoCielo 2009, only one visualization product will need to be deployed, where previously multiple viewers were needed to support more demanding customer environments. This will result in a less complex IT configuration and enable a lower total cost of ownership, in addition to delivering outstanding viewing functionality that will help streamline collaboration across the global enterprise, improve productivity, reduce errors and accelerate time to market.

“BlueCielo has a firm commitment to providing our customers with cutting-edge technology to enable them to optimize their engineering processes and to stay ahead in the current demanding economic environment,” says Martijn Janmaat, BlueCielo’s CEO. “Through our OEM agreement with Oracle, we are delighted to be able to provide our entire client base and future customers with AutoVue’s best of breed visualization technology at exceptional price/performance conditions. This integration of the AutoVue technology further underlines the leadership position of the BlueCielo solutions portfolio.”

"Oracle is pleased to enter into an OEM agreement with BlueCielo. We are excited to provide InnoCielo users worldwide with the opportunity to benefit from AutoVue, Oracle’s state-of-the-art engineering and CAD visualization, digital markup and collaboration solutions,” says Sami Bannour, Oracle Vice President, AutoVue Development. “We are confident that the pairing of AutoVue enterprise visualization and Innocielo ECM solutions will enable customers to better leverage their engineering and technical content and deliver improvements in their engineering centric business processes.”

With AutoVue 2D Professional, InnoCielo customers will benefit from the most up-to-date and high fidelity viewing of Microsoft Office and 2D CAD formats including AutoCAD, MicroStation, SolidWorks drawings, Smartsketch, IGES 2D and SolidEdge draft; features such as markup, commenting, redlining, magnifying glass, and more for all supported file formats (Microsoft Office, Adobe PDF, graphic files and all enhanced 2D formats); precise 2D measurements with 2D measurement markups displayed on screen and document compare for graphic (CAD) formats, advanced printing options and more.

Support for additional AutoVue 2D Professional features, including web based viewing, is scheduled to become available in future releases of InnoCielo Meridian Enterprise, BlueCielo’s flagship solution employed by owner/operators across multiple industries such as energy, oil and gas and pharmaceuticals to effectively manage their engineering and asset information.

For advanced 3D visualization functionality, BlueCielo will offer the possibility to upgrade to AutoVue 3D Professional Advanced, which supports all the formats supported by AutoVue 2D Professional, and also provides additional visualization and markup capabilities for 3D CAD formats such as Autodesk Inventor, CATIA, Pro/ENGINEER, SolidWorks and more.