Engineous Software Launches New iSIGHT-FD Product; Customers Get the Opportunity to Try before They Buy with Free Software Evaluation.

CARY, N.C. -- Engineous Software, provider of award-winning integration, automation, and design optimization software and related strategic services, announced today the availability of their new iSIGHT-FD Product. iSIGHT-FD provides engineers with a suite of powerful advanced engineering tools and techniques that are accessed and executed through highly visual, easy to use drag-and-drop interfaces. The software began shipping in North America and Europe in late December. E[acute accent]iSIGHT-FD allows engineers to integrate steps in a design process in a drag-and-drop environment, setup an automated plan to thoroughly explore a product's design space and rapidly find optimum design solutions. iSIGHT-FD includes some of the following features: a powerful suite of optimizers, Design of Experiments, Monte Carlo simulations, accurate approximation methods, highly visual interfaces like Engineering Data Mining to help engineers understand design trade-offs and a Visual Design Driver that lets users "surf" through the design space in real-time. E[acute accent]"CPDA along with industry leaders and vendors has created a council to assess current capabilities and future priorities for design and simulation integration frameworks. Several critical issues have been identified, including application integration, modular architecture, reuse of process information, and design optimization," said Michel Vrinat (PLM Research Director) CPDA. "We believe software like Engineous' iSIGHT-FD provides engineers with a powerful, yet easy to use set of tools that focuses on these critical issues. In turn, these applications can then be extended to the engineering enterprise through Engineous' FIPER infrastructure to enable collaborative sharing and execution of processes integrated through iSIGHT-FD." E[acute accent]"Many engineering solutions available today are hard to use and require advanced training to get up and running," said JP Evans, Engineous' Vice President of Product Management and Marketing Communications. "One of our main product development initiatives for iSIGHT-FD was to combine the power of advanced engineering techniques with simple and intuitive visual interfaces. iSIGHT-FD is an exciting extension to our iSIGHT product line and is the result of extensive customer validation and user testing. We are confident that iSIGHT-FD delivers the power and usability engineers want." E[acute accent]iSIGHT-FD will be available on a trial basis for approximately 60 days. The full-featured evaluation includes a Getting Started Guide with easy to follow examples. Engineous will host three online training sessions on January 12th, 18th, and 31st to help customers get the most out of their evaluation. For more information on the evaluation and free training visit the company's website: www.engineous.com

E[acute accent]About Engineous Software, Inc.

E[acute accent]Engineous Software, Inc. provides engineering design integration and optimization software solutions and services. The company's iSIGHT product family enables engineers to solve their toughest design problems using powerful design driver technology. The advanced techniques provided through iSIGHT and iSIGHT-FD allow engineers to integrate existing design software, evaluate design alternatives at an accelerated rate, and optimize final product designs. Its FIPER product is a web-based, distributed engineering process infrastructure that allows organizations to access, execute, and reuse design tools and processes. Resources can be connected within an organization or through a global network of external partners and geographically dispersed design teams. Founded in 1996, Engineous operates numerous sales offices in the U.S., as well as wholly owned subsidiaries in Asia and Europe. E[acute accent]Engineous was recognized by top analysts as the worldwide market leader in the Process Integration and Design Optimization market. Customers include leading Fortune 500 companies such as Canon, General Electric, General Motors, UTC/Pratt & Whitney, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Toshiba, MHI, Ford Motor Company, DaimlerChrysler US, Toyota, Nissan, Renault, Hitachi, Peugeot, MTU Aero Engines, TRW, BMW, Rolls Royce, and York International. Additional information can be found at www.engineous.com.