Spicer ViewCafé® 4.1 delivers industry standard formats that support enterprise and engineering review processes across the extended organization

With ViewCafé 4.1 integrated into enterprise content applications, such as Engineering Change Order Management, Plant and Facility Management, and Case Management, workers across locations and departments - engineers, contractors and vendors, submission clerks, project and case managers - easily access, review, mark up, and disseminate engineering and enterprise content.  Combining Spicer ViewCafé with automated business processes for information sharing, review, and collaboration results in linked workflows between departments and worksites, effectively managed projects with reduced expenditures, and enhanced service delivery.

"Spicer ViewCafé integrates scalable enterprise and engineering review and collaboration into new and legacy ECM and other corporate systems and significantly improves operational efficiency," comments Janice Ferguson, ViewCafé Product Manager.  "Engineers, vendors, management, and non-technical employees improve their decision-making and productivity through streamlined content sharing; teams of users across multiple locations can review, mark up, and approve a wide range of electronic file types, from CAD drawings to business documents, which are typically used in their day-to-day workflows."

Spicer continues to support premiere engineering and enterprise workflow applications across vertical industries with its commitment to new engineering and office formats.  New formats for ViewCafé 4.1 include:

- Solidworks 2005, 2006 and 2007

- Autodesk Inventor 10 and 11

- DWG 2007 and 2008

- MS Outlook MSG

- Digital Negative (preview only)

- JT 2.1 Model

- Jbig2

- Pro/E Wildfire 3

Advanced Java(tm) 2 and 3D technology sets Spicer ViewCafé as the standard for thin client viewing and easy integration.  Deploy ViewCafé's easy-to-use applet in a browser or as a Java bean application.  The ViewCafé Server is available for Windows(tm) 2000, Windows 2003 Server, and Windows XP.

About Spicer Corporation

Spicer Corporation is a worldwide supplier of scalable, enterprise viewing and redaction solutions that maximize the value of ECM, CM, PDM, PLM, ERP, and other corporate information systems to improve operational efficiency, link enterprise and engineering workflows, and protect privacy compliance.  Spicer's interoperable desktop and Web solutions, Imagenation®, ViewCafé®, Freedom(tm), Image a.X(tm)and DocuJet(tm), are used in Manufacturing, Government, Utilities, Insurance and Financial Services, and Reprographics markets globally.  Since 1983, Spicer continues to build business and customer partnerships resulting in a worldwide network of satisfied customers, Value Added Resellers, and strategic partner channels.