CAD-ERP Data Integration Solution Provider for Microsoft Dynamics Earns SolidWorks Solution Partner Status

Business Wire, Dec 19, 2007

QUEBEC -- Elmo Solutions, the leader in CAD-ERP data integration, is pleased to announce that Agni Link (http://elmosolutions.com/agni_link.html?ref=071219), its live, bidirectional CAD-ERP data integration system for Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Dynamics AX and Dynamics GP, has been awarded "Solution Partner Product" status by the SolidWorks Partner Program. To attain this certification, the Agni Link CAD-ERP Data Integration System had to meet criteria outlined by SolidWorks Corp., including a high level interoperability with SolidWorks. Certification is granted by SolidWorks once the product has been approved after a rigorous review process.

The Solution Partner Product designation was developed by SolidWorks to help end users easily identify best-in-class application software products that work well with SolidWorks. The Solution Partner Product award indicates that, in the view of SolidWorks Corp., Agni Link ERP-CAD Data Integration System has demonstrated "world-class functionality, integration and interoperability with SolidWorks applications."

"Achieving Solution Partner Product status is an import milestone for the Elmo Solutions family of products," says Science Officer Ricardo Talbot. "Elmo Solution's development team is dedicated to providing the highest level of dependability to its SolidWorks users. Knowing Agni Link is a Solution Partner product will reassure these users they are achieving a very high level of productivity when using Agni Link and SolidWorks."

Agni Link is a companion to SolidWorks, AutoCAD or Autodesk Inventor that provides real-time, bidirectional integration with Microsoft Dynamics. It is the only application of its kind that offers a unique and reliable way to integrate CAD and Microsoft Dynamics data, automatically resolving discrepancies, and allowing editing of CAD data using possible values obtained "live" from Microsoft Dynamics, thus ensuring perfect synchronization of both data sets and completely eliminating redundant data entry as well as eliminating costly errors. Agni Link can process and synchronize a wide range of product data from either environment, including:

* Bills of Materials (BoMs)

* Estimating

* Sales Quotes

* Business Process Management (BPM) data

* Work Orders

* Production Orders

* Production Schedules

* Product Catalogs

* Product Configurations

* Parts Catalogs

* Technical Documentation

* Supply Chain Data

* Document Management

* CRM data

Yielding high Return on Investment, Agni Link typically pays for itself in 60-90 days in ETO-intensive environments.

Agni Link addresses the needs of SolidWorks and Microsoft Dynamics users sharing product data throughout the enterprise. Designed with the end-user in mind, the latest release introduced powerful characteristics such as a new editing feature that allows extremely efficient populating of BoM data directly from the CAD environment, without having to go through the ERP application.

Its open architecture can support a wide range of ERP applications, including

* Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Navision)

* Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains)

* Microsoft Dynamics AX (Axapta)

Established in 1979, Elmo Solutions is a world class leader in CAD-ERP data integration, with users in over 50 countries.