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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

PROSTEP, Inc. Purchases Key Assets and Intellectual Property of EOS Solutions

EOS Solutions has been an industry leader in client based solutions providing intelligent, interactive, and animated documents in the 3D PDF format for a variety of industries such as Military, Aerospace, Automotive, Industrial Pipelines, and more.

PROSTEP, Inc. provides integration and migration solutions between different vendor’s engineering related document management systems (PDM, PLM, TDM), supply chain solutions for secure and reliable data exchange, CAD related services for translation and migration, and server based 3D PDF document creation.

It is being announced that PROSTEP, Inc. (based in Birmingham Michigan, USA) has purchased all assets and intellectual property around EOS Solutions’ products; 3D PDF Animate™, 3D PDF Publish™, and 3D PDF Compare™. Additionally, all of its employees have now joined the growing PROSTEP Team.

This purchase is a continuation of  PROSTEP’s strategy to provide powerful commercial off the shelf tools (COTS) to enable enterprises of all sizes to break down barriers between engineering authors and downstream consumers, throughout the extended enterprise, supply chains, and customer interactions. EOS’s resources will ensure continuity to existing customers and help realize this strategy faster and more efficiently than ever before.

Says Steven Prast, former Managing Director of EOS Solutions, “We have been a partner / reseller of PROSTEP’s OpenPDM and PDF Generator 3D for a number a years, and it is clear that our products, customers, and employees were closely aligned”.

Says Paul W. Downing, President & CEO of PROSTEP, Inc. “We are now perfectly positioned to provide the best full spectrum solution in this space from client side to server based enterprise products and services, PROSTEP will provide the best 3D PDF experiences and domain experts in the world”.

Says Allen Hardy, former EOS Solutions Product Manager, “PROSTEP will continue to update and develop enhancements to this product. Our next release is ready and will be released to market under the old naming conventions and licensing conventions this summer. Version 2.0 will have a fresh look, new name, and new features and is planned to be released before the end of 2014”.

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