New joint STEP/PLCS offerings in the Aerospace and Defense sector. Strategic partnership between Jotne EPM Technology AS and Sörman Information

Oslo, Norway, December 6, 2007

“Both companies have long standing records in the industry and their products complement each other to meet the requirements from organisations, now starting to implement the Product Life Cycle Support standards, ISO 10303-239” says Karl-Olov Nygren, Director for Business Area Defense at Sörman Information.

Kjell Bengtsson, Senior Vice President, Jotne EPM Technology AS, “Global companies need to change the way they manage Product Data Exchange and this is a step in the right direction to achieve this objective. Our company is excited about the new opportunities that this partnership will create.”

The MOU will assist in the process of running joint market and project activities as well as possible integrations with the EPMT product EXPRESS Data Manager™ and Sörman UpTime and RODON. These products have proven capabilities since many years.

Contacts:
Jotne EPM Technology AS : Kjell Bengtsson + 47-23 17 17 00
Sörman Information AB : Karl Olov Nygren, Tel: +46-13 46 51 356

About Jotne EPM Technology AS

Jotne EPM Technology (EPMT) is a member of the Jotne Group, specializing in information technology. Since 1990 the company has developed database solutions to handle standards such as ISO 10303 STEP, PLCS, etc. These are open specifications with public availability used by aerospace, space and defence- related industries to manage information about complex systems. Jotne has a staff of about 250 people, and its IT products are used by clients all over the world, including the US Department of Defence, the European Space Agency and leading aerospace/defence/space contractors. Express Data Manager™ (EDM) is a suite of tools which reduce design time & costs, enhance multi-platform data transfer internally & externally, reduce manufacturing errors and reuse your data throughout the entire lifecycle of your product. By using ISO 10303 STEP open standard data transfer you can exchange data regardless of platform hardware and maintain large semantically rich long-term data archives regardless of IT-system changes. Express Data Manager™ gives the ownership of data back to the user!

About Sörman Information

Sörman Information AB is a leading technology provider of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) information solutions and services for advanced products and systems. The Company has been in the market since 1966.

Its offer is based on:

• comprehensive supply of services throughout the technical information process, including analysis, structuring, creation and management of aftermarket information for complex manufactured products;
• a complete package of system solutions that provides seamless information system support from product design and construction to service and aftersales;
• provision of cutting edge technology and services supporting diagnostics and maintainability in the design process of products and systems; and a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) solution that combine services and systems where Sörman take full responsibility and provide customers with savings and state-of-the-art systems.

The Company’s consultancy services to the PLM market are based on extensive industry experience in analysis, diagnostics and content management, and in-depth operational knowledge in its targeted market segments. Main owners are Investor, Saab AB and Accent Equity Partners.