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Decision Support Tools from IHS and GlobalSpec Streamline Engineering Processes and Parts Selection.


ENGLEWOOD, Colo. & TROY, N.Y. -- Product Enables Companies to Increase Search Accuracy and Productivity Gains with Best-in-Class Engineering Content Solution

IHS IHS

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IHS
 Inc. (www.ihs.com) today announced the immediate availability of the newest addition to the comprehensive IHS lineup A criminal investigation technique in which the police arrange a number of individuals in a row before a witness to a crime and ask the witness to identify which, if any, of the individuals committed the crime.  of Engineering Content products: GlobalSpec(R) Enterprise.

As a result, engineers, designers and technical buyers in aerospace/aviation, defense and energy organizations and industries now have direct and secure access to SpecSearch(R) from GlobalSpec, enabling them to search for products and services by specification using technical attributes and parameters. The ability to quickly search and evaluate parts by their functional and physical attributes will help multi-location manufacturers and distributors save time by picking the right product the first time. Engineers will also gain access to The Engineering Web(sm), a unique slice of the World Wide Web which focuses on tech-centric content and delivers only the most relevant and unbiased search results.

Leigh Watson Healy, Chief Analyst from Outsell out·sell  
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 Inc., a leading research and advisory firm for the information industry, added, "The market has needed a solution like this for some time. Bringing together the latest of today's content and search functionality with desktop applications like the IHS solution has the potential to exceed customers' expectations for content integration at the users' point of need. We have been predicting and expect to see more deals like this where industry leaders come together to provide a more complete solution for the customer."

IHS delivers the world's largest online database of active and historical U.S., European, national and international, and corporate standards, as well as U.S. government specifications and related technical documents. "We listen to our customers when they tell us about their needs for robust, parametric parts information covering a vast array of commodities that enable their work-flow," said Joe Kroog, Product Marketing Manager, IHS. "Leveraging GlobalSpec Enterprise and its enormous categorized cat·e·go·rize  
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To put into a category or categories; classify.



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 database of product catalogs and services available today is a natural extension of our own suite of parts selection tools and engineering-oriented content solutions."

GlobalSpec Enterprise offers the powerful search functionality and related content that GlobalSpec is known for within the engineering community. "This is a win-win-win alliance," said Scott Virkler, Vice President of Business Development, GlobalSpec, Inc. "Together, IHS and GlobalSpec have delivered a customized search tool as well as direct access to information on The Engineering Web and the 'hidden Web' - empowering engineers worldwide in their daily parts search and research activities."

About IHS Inc. (www.ihs.com)

With 45 years of global leadership in helping businesses innovate in·no·vate  
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To begin or introduce (something new) for or as if for the first time.

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To begin or introduce something new.
 and compete, the Engineering division of IHS Inc. is a leading international provider of content integration and decision support tools, technical engineering standards, codes and documents, product and military specifications, parts management and logistics supply solutions. IHS offers industry-specific and cross-industry technical engineering solutions that serve customers in the aerospace & aviation, architecture & construction, automotive, electronics, government & military, petrochemical petrochemical, any one of a large group of chemicals derived from a component of petroleum or natural gas. The cracking processes for manufacturing gasoline produce vast quantities of gaseous hydrocarbons. , telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications.  and utilities industries.

IHS solutions are available via Internet, extranet, intranet, DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc.
DVD
 in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc

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 & CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc.
CD-ROM
 in full compact disc read-only memory

Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser).
, subscription and custom collections, and single-document delivery. For more information on IHS products and services, visit www.ihs.com.

IHS Inc., IHS and the IHS logo are registered trademarks of IHS Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Copyright (C) 2005 IHS Inc. All rights reserved.

About GlobalSpec, Inc.

GlobalSpec, Inc. is the leading specialized search engine See vertical search engine.  and information resource for the engineering community. Engineers and technical buyers regularly use GlobalSpec in their work process to search for and locate products and services, learn about suppliers and access comprehensive technical content on standards, patents, materials properties This is a list of materials properties. A materials property is an intensive, often quantitative property of a material, usually with a unit that may be used as a metric of value to compare the benefits of one material versus another to aid in materials selection. , specifications, designs, application notes and more. GlobalSpec's trademarked search technology, SpecSearch(R), allows users to search by specification more than 78 million parts in 1,200,000 product families from more than 12,500 supplier catalogs. Suppliers representing their products and services on GlobalSpec gain a comprehensive marketing program designed to promote their brand and generate, track and manage highly-qualified sales leads A sales lead is the identity of a person or entity potentially interested in purchasing a product or service, and represents the first stage of a sales process. The lead may have a corporation or business associated with the person(s). . Information about GlobalSpec can be found at www.globalspec.com.

GlobalSpec and SpecSearch are registered trademarks and The Engineering Search Engine is a service mark of GlobalSpec, Inc.
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