Laila Hirr will serve as Director of Business Solutions and Manager of Metafore’s Pacific Northwest Office and will be transitioning Axian’s PLM customers to Metafore during the month of February, 2007. Metafore will maintain the current Axian service delivery team, which will augment the already existing expertise and allow Metafore to provide even broader support to existing and new clients.

"We are excited about Laila and her team joining us" says Andreas Lindenthal, Principal of Metafore. "Our teams have very complementary capabilities, and our customers will quickly experience the additional value our combined teams can provide. It will also further strengthen our position as an independent PLM solution provider".

Axian’s Product Software Engineering and Web Services customers will not be affected by this change.

For additional information on the move visit www.meta-fore.com and www.axian.com.

About Axian

Established in 1989, Axian is a software consulting and contracting company that provides a full spectrum of front-end consulting and full life-cycle software engineering. Axian works with product development companies and businesses that rely on software to bring complex software projects to completion in minimum time with the highest quality. By establishing long-term partnerships, Axian supports clients through multiple generations and widely diverse software applications.

About Metafore

Metafore is an independent full-service product lifecycle management (PLM) solution provider. Metafore delivers PLM by providing unbiased information and helping companies to identify, design, implement and operate the most appropriate PLM practices, processes and technologies for their business needs. Metafore’s PLM experts have worked with companies of all sizes across many industries and have years of practical experience in evaluating and implementing both large enterprise PLM solutions as well as small workgroup PDM solutions.