AVS/Express Web Edition Named as a Top 10 Software Product of 1996 by IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications Magazine

Business Wire, Jan 14, 1997

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 14, 1997-- Advanced Visual Systems Inc. (AVS) today announced that its AVS/Express Web Edition product was named as one of the top 10 software products of 1996 by editors of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications magazine. "We are extremely happy to accept this acknowledgment from this prestigious publication and its editors," said Gary Farner, Vice President of Marketing for AVS. Farner added that, "we accept this endorsement as confirming the Web direction that we're moving our visualization products toward."

AVS/Express, first introduced in 1994, is a multi-platform development environment that lets users easily build interactive multidimensional visualization capabilities into new or existing applications. Using a unique object-oriented visual programming paradigm, users can quickly assemble components from proven GUI, graphics and visualization libraries using a "drag-and-drop" interface, eliminating time-consuming programming in traditional 3GL and 4GL environments. AVS/Express is available in both developer and end user versions.

AVS/Express Web Edition, announced in August of 1996, uses Virtual Reality Modeling Language-2 (VRML-2) to deliver detail-rich, sophisticated 3D visualizations across the Web in a matter of seconds. The Web Edition consists of the Data Publisher, Scene Publisher, and Application Publisher. The Data Publisher allows AVS/Express data to be read and written across the Internet. The Scene and Application publishers are used to enhance the user's options for viewing and manipulating scenes, giving the desktop client the same control over scenes as a user on a much more expensive workstation using a specialized application. Developers can also use the Application Publisher to construct user interfaces with Java User Interface Controls.

The company also recently announced a Web Edition for its popular Gsharp software for producing 2D and 3D graphs. Using Gsharp on a Web server, web page visitors can view publication-quality graphs, produce graphs on demand from data they select, and drill down on graphs to see finer levels of detail. Graphs are generated as web-compliant images and Java applets, viewable from any standard web browser.

About Advanced Visual Systems

Advanced Visual Systems Inc. is the leading supplier of "visual intelligence" development tools and end-user software that transform large amounts of complex data into 2D and 3D visual information. The company's products deliver insight and competitive advantage to customers in the technical, scientific, and commercial "data mining" markets, including medical imaging, engineering, geospatial application development, oil and gas, aerospace, government research, telecommunications, and financial services. The company's products run on Windows 95, Windows NT, all major UNIX workstations, and are supported on the Internet with the release of AVS/Express Web Edition and Gsharp Web Edition.

Advanced Visual Systems distributes its products through a direct sales force in the U.S., through subsidiaries in Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom, and through distributors in numerous other countries. KGT Inc. in Japan oversees sales and distribution channels for the company's products in the Pacific Rim. -0-

AVS/Express is a registered trademark, and AVS and Gsharp are trademarks, of Advanced Visual Systems Inc. All other product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders.

CONTACT: Bernie Buelow

Advanced Visual Systems Inc.

617-890-4300, ext. 2265

E-mail: bbuelow@avs.com

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