SAN MATEO, Calif. June 23, 2003 -- EGI Technologies today announced the availability of its Product Release Manager (PRM) application version 2.0. The EGI PRM application is a browser-based workflow automation solution enabling collaboration between the various participants involved in the product release process. The application is designed to improve productivity through collaboration and information sharing between onsite and remote work groups and ensure that all components of the product release plan are accomplished.

The web-based application enables a small team or large organization to work together on critical product release activities, whether they are working locally or remote. PRM simplifies interaction and information-sharing among resources, facilitates collaboration and provides maximum visibility into the multitude of activities that go into releasing a product to market. EGI PRM helps electronic companies to dramatically reduce the time-to-market in releasing products.

Team members and product release participants work together with a customized, up-to-the-minute list of detailed assignments. Members can record time spent on activities and time remaining to complete their tasks, alert project managers to issues and communicate new requirements. With simple views tailored for them, team leaders can quickly initiate new projects by using established best practices, defined deliverables and planned timelines. The project dashboard notifies the project team leader of critical activities, milestones and pending activities that are coming due.

Leveraging EGI’s Electronic Record Management technology, the application enables users to attach documents (XML, MS Office documents and other formats) and document images (design and specification drawings, marketing images etc.) to projects, tasks and related products. The documents are then managed through their useful life cycle, determining their appropriate access control, availability and access mode (read or write). EGI PRM improves the efficiency of the interface between engineering, sales, marketing and other departments working together to release a product to market. The improved efficiency creates a competitive advantage by cutting down the time and costs associated with bringing a new chip to the market.

EGI PRM Version 2.0 seamlessly integrated with EGI SBM (Silicon Bring-Up Manager) Application to optionally relate test engineering data and reports into the total picture of the product release process. EGI PRM 2.0 runs on IBM WebSphere, Oracle 9iAS, BEA Web Logic, Sybase EA Server and Apache Tomcat application servers. It supports Oracle 8i and up, SQL Server 7, SQL Server 2000 and MySQL 3.23.51 as the repository.

The EGI PRM Application is built on EGI’s patented Object Modeling and Management™ platform. The OMM™ model is a highly advanced object-oriented approach designed to model and manage data, users and processes within and across enterprises. EGI PRM uses this patented methodology to support configuration of the application model based on the unique way that each company performs its product release. Process tasks and responsibilities are assigned based on flexibly defined roles. Team members within the company and outside constituents are allowed to access only the data and documents that are authorized to them. This powerful eEnabled application makes use of EGI’s robust workflow engine designed with rules-based logic that enables the organization to model its unique processes without requiring the processes to be modified to fit the technology. The applications are designed to increase the efficiency of an organization by automating all stages of process management.

To learn more about the EGI PRM application, visit us on line at www.egiomm.com/solutions_PRM.jsp.

About EGI
EGI Technologies, develops and markets Enterprise Information Management solutions, including Electronic Records Management (ERM) applications that provide aggregation, accessibility and life cycle management of digital assets. With our collaborative enterprise information and ERM applications, we offer enterprises an open architecture platform to unify information and transactions from multiple data sources and systems, and provide users secured access to integrated knowledge through the Internet. EGI clients include the US Army, Army National Guard, Hitachi America, Quantum Corp., Teradiant Networks, New World CyberBase and InsurePoint. EGI is headquartered in San Mateo, California. Web address - www.egiomm.com .

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