Autodesk Selects Impresse as Marketing Procurement Solution Provider.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 5, 2000 Competitive Evaluation Selects impresse.com Due to Leading Vision, Technology and Adaptability Impresse, the leading business-to-business collaboration and e-commerce service for the creation and procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases. of marketing materials, announced today a strategic relationship with Autodesk (Nasdaq:ADSK ADSK Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ stock symbol) ), the world's leading design and digital content creation The development of newsworthy, educational and entertainment material for distribution over the Internet or other electronic media. See DAMS. resource. Autodesk will use the impresse.com service to produce an extensive list of items, including marketing collateral Marketing collateral, in marketing and sales, is the collection of media used to support the sales of a product or service. These sales aids are intended to make the sales effort easier and more effective. , logo merchandise, course notes and materials, product manuals and packaging, direct mail materials, and software CD's. Impresse was selected in a competitive evaluation because the impresse.com service offered superior vision, leading technology, unsurpassed adaptability, and ability to integrate seamlessly with Ariba (Nasdaq:ARBA). As a result of using impresse.com for marketing procurement, Autodesk expects to gain efficiency and visibility benefits resulting in extraordinary savings and return on investment. By year-end, Autodesk will have 75 users on the impresse.com e-procurement system along with their suppliers for these custom-manufactured items. Autodesk required a collaboration tool A collaboration tool is something that helps people collaborate. The term is often used to mean collaborative software, but collaboration tools were being used before computers existed, a piece of paper can for example can be used as collaboration tool. that would enable them to realize significant ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). in an area of expenditure that is diverse and difficult to track. Due to the seamless and flexible integration of impresse.com with the existing Ariba e-procurement platform, the impresse.com service provides to marketing professionals at Autodesk the visibility and control into their print and marketing expenditures without sacrificing the tremendous creativity and high quality with which Autodesk is synonymous. "The impresse.com service will give us full control and visibility of spending without being intrusive, so we can deliver our projects more efficiently," said Mike Tabatabai, Vice President of Worldwide Operations for Autodesk. "This agreement is a key example of how Autodesk is incorporating web-based technology in the way we operate as a company as well as in the solutions we deliver." "Impresse.com, combined with Ariba, is a powerful combination offering customers extraordinary return on investment," said Nimish Mehta, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Impresse Corporation. "To be selected by Autodesk, a visionary and leading edge company with enormous expertise in the design and creation of digital content, is a great honor." About Impresse Impresse, founded in 1997, is the leading provider of business-to-business collaboration and commerce services for the creation and procurement of marketing materials. Impresse.com is a collaborative Internet service for corporations, agencies and their suppliers to procure To cause something to happen; to find and obtain something or someone. Procure refers to commencing a proceeding; bringing about a result; persuading, inducing, or causing a person to do a particular act; obtaining possession or control over an item; or making a person marketing materials, reduce time to delivery, eliminate errors and control production costs. To find out more about Impresse, call 888/999-3663 or check out www.impresse.com. About Autodesk Autodesk is the world's leading design and digital content creation resource. The company provides software and Internet portal services to help customers drive business through the power of design. Autodesk serves more than 4 million customers in over 150 countries. For more information, contact any Authorized au·thor·ize tr.v. au·thor·ized, au·thor·iz·ing, au·thor·iz·es 1. To grant authority or power to. 2. To give permission for; sanction: Autodesk Reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers. . Discreet product information is available via the web at www.discreet.com. Autodesk shares are traded on the Nasdaq national market under the symbol ADSK. Impresse and impresse.com are trademarks. 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