NexPrise, the leading provider of collaborative commerce platforms for B2B exchanges, today announced a technology partnership with Cimmetry Systems, the leader in Visual Data Access and Collaboration solutions. Cimmetry's online visualization tool, AutoVue for JAVA, is an additional offering to the latest release of NexPrise ipTeam, version 4.0. NexPrise enables manufacturers, suppliers, customers, and partners to securely collaborate on critical e-business processes such as strategic sourcing of direct materials, product development, and program management and execution in a global virtual workspace.

Offered as a tightly integrated component of the NexPrise solution, Cimmetry's AutoVue for JAVA technology will allow public and private B2B exchange users to view and markup drawings and models of over 200 different file types and formats, allowing multiple users to add comments without affecting the original file.

Cimmetry's offering works seamlessly with NexPrise's collaborative sourcing and product development capabilities, and the technology combination greatly improves and eases communications between virtual team members connected across organizational and geographical boundaries 'With the addition of Cimmetry visualization technology to the NexPrise solution, the global product development team-including engineers, designers, buyers and suppliers-is now able to more easily develop and share ideas and issues in less time, and with greater clarity, all in a secure, web-enabled environment,' said Brian Strasser, Business Development Manager at Cimmetry Systems.

'We are pleased to have been selected by NexPrise to complement their award-winning solution, and look forward to bringing the benefits of our visualization capability to their customers.' 'Cimmetry is a recognized leader in providing powerful visualization tools for manufacturing companies, and understands the important role that visual communications and collaboration play in complex procurement and product development efforts,' said Ram Sriram, founder and president of NexPrise.

'Cimmetry's powerful view and markup capability is a great enhancement to NexPrise's award-winning collaborative commerce solution for B2B exchanges.'