Wright Technologies Launches EyeSpring; Complete Image Serving and Network Publishing Solution for Visual Collaboration.

Business/Technology Editors

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2002

Wright Technologies today launched the EyeSpring Visual Collaboration Network(TM). Its three components -- EyeSpring Server(TM), EyeSpring Viewer(TM) and EyeSpring Studio(TM) -- create a secure collaboration environment for geographically dispersed use of mission-critical visual media assets and rich content.

EyeSpring Visual Collaboration Networks allow companies to share, modify and publish visual information and content quickly and seamlessly within the enterprise, to external workgroups, to the Internet and to traditional printing outlets. EyeSpring integrates easily into existing content management and media asset management systems.

"Corporations increasingly depend on digital images and other types of dynamic visual content to communicate with internal teams as well as with customers, partners, suppliers, and others outside their own organizations," said Tony Henning, senior analyst, Future Image. "Unfortunately, at the present time they must also struggle with the task of centralizing and streamlining the image serving and network publishing processes. When bandwidth doesn't present a nearly insurmountable obstacle, the problems of effective asset management do."

"EyeSpring combines network publishing and image manipulation to address the market need for a complete visual collaboration solution," said Jerry Myers, CEO, Wright Technologies. "Now rich content can be stored, viewed, edited, shared and published from one controlled source, rather than from multiple, disparate sources, or using programs that are either not networked or not able to effectively communicate with each other. EyeSpring allows flexible, freeform workflow -- it works the way teams work."

EyeSpring Visual Collaboration Networks allow multiple users within the enterprise to view, edit, share and publish visual content within a secure local or wide-area environment. They streamline processes and eliminate departmental boundaries while simultaneously maintaining visual content within the network, not on offline media where files are susceptible to corruption, unauthorized manipulation, loss and theft.

The EyeSpring Visual Collaboration Network supports industry standard components like Adobe Photoshop plug-ins, making it fully compatible with existing imaging and publishing systems. The EyeSpring system is engineered to read all common file formats including JPEG, TIFF, PNG and GIF89a.

The EyeSpring Server component efficiently serves high-resolution images over any bandwidth to multiple simultaneous users. The EyeSpring Viewer dynamically displays, zooms and pans the served images. EyeSpring Studio -- with its 32-bit plug-in compatibility -- is a full-featured, networked-enabled visual content creation and editing suite.

EyeSpring Visual Collaboration Network benefits include:

-- The ability to publish documents with one integrated package instead of using multiple applications, which reduces costs and incompatibilities

-- Real Pixel(TM) Technology provides complete image accuracy because the real image and its actual pixels are available

-- Support for all color spaces in cross-media publishing, which allows resolution independence and limitless sources

-- Simultaneous access to the same image with transparent version control

-- End-to-end functionality enabling easier and faster publishing, and co-existence with current systems

About EyeSpring

EyeSpring Visual Collaboration Network represents a breakthrough in secure portal environments for inter- and intra-company collaboration around mission-critical visual media assets and rich content. The EyeSpring solution integrates a powerful server engine, proven production tools and a versatile viewer. It is fully compatible with imaging and publishing industry standards, and easily integrated with existing systems. EyeSpring is available through an authorized partner program covering key vertical markets and enterprise-level integration. EyeSpring is the latest innovation from Wright Technologies, a supplier of award-winning, world-class visual communication applications since 1985. The company has offices in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Europe. For more information, visit http://www.eyespring.com.

Note to Editors: EyeSpring Visual Collaboration Network, EyeSpring Server, EyeSpring Viewer, EyeSpring Studio and Real Pixel are trademarks of Wright Technologies N.V. in the United States and elsewhere in the world. All other trademarks or product names are property of their respective owners and are hereby acknowledged.