Early-registration discounts now available

LOVELAND, Colo., Jan. 27 — (PRNewswire) — Longview Advisors, organizers of the annual Collaboration & Interoperability Congress (CIC), today announced that registration is open for the 2010 event to be held May 3 to 5 in Estes Park, Colorado. Software, engineering, manufacturing and IT professionals are welcome to register at: www.3DCIC.com. Time-limited early registration discounts currently apply.

Now in its sixth year, the annual CIC brings together experts and executives from a wide range of discrete manufacturing industries, as well as representatives from government and defense communities, to discuss the latest issues and solutions in collaboration and interoperability. The three-day meeting of international professionals provides a world-class forum for exploring current challenges and opportunities for improving innovation in global product development.

This year's agenda includes featured general session speakers (listed on web site) and information-packed breakout tracks, along with highly-interactive roundtable discussions with expert panelists, covering such topics as:

• Digital Product Data Deployment Beyond Engineering
• Data Migration & Legacy Data Management
• STEP and Standards-based Solutions
• CAD Interoperability with Analysis/Simulation and Manufacturing
• PDM Processes & Lessons Learned
• PLCS for Engineering and Logistics Interoperability
• Interoperability & Collaboration Technology
• Architecting the Optimum Collaboration & Interoperability Environment

Corporate sponsors to date of the 2010 Congress include: CENIT North America, CT Core Technologies, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, ITI TranscenData, Jotne EPM Technology, Kubotek USA, Lenovo, mental images, Microsoft, Oracle, Parametric Technology Corp., Spatial, Technigraphics, Theorem Solutions and Transmagic. Promotional sponsors include the ConnectPress group of CAD communities (e.g. CATIA Community, Pro-E Community, UG Community), Desktop Engineering Magazine, MCADCafe and Tenlinks.

Longview Advisors also is pleased to provide free access to all presentations and many audios from the 2009 and 2008 events, now available at www.3dcic.com.

Anyone interested in discussing the event, topics of interest, speakers, the venue, setting up meetings, coordinating arrival/departures, or anything else, are invited to visit the CIC Forum ( http://www.3dcic.com/forum).

About Longview Advisors

Longview Advisors Inc. provides consulting services in the business, technology and application of 3D software in product lifecycle management. For more information, please visit: www.longviewadvisors.com, or the Longview advisors blog: www.3Dubiquity.com. To find out more about the 2010 3D Collaboration & Interoperability Congress, please visit: www.3dcic.com.

SOURCE Longview Advisors

Contact:

Longview Advisors Terri Douglas of Catapult PR-IR Phone: +1-303-581-7760, ext. 18 Email Contact for Longview Advisors Inc. Web: http://www.3dcic.com