Key Benefits

• Accelerated product development — Quickly share data across functions and locations, and increase productivity by giving engineers instant access to design information.

• Enterprise content management — Securely create, manage, publish, distribute, and archive product, project, and company information regardless of source or format.

• Supply chain collaboration — Manage and collaborate with dispersed teams, an international customer base, and supply chain partners worldwide.

• Cross-functional information — Share information seamlessly across functional areas, from manufacturing and purchasing to sales, mergers, and acquisitions.

Solutions

Engineering and New Product Development

• Engineering and New Product Development for Manufacturing and High Tech — Enable secure sharing of intellectual property with design partners and suppliers through each phase — requirements, analysis, proposals, design and product requirements documents, and more.

• Technical Publishing — Develop, distribute, repurpose, and manage all technical documentation for your products and their ongoing maintenance—for print or the Web.

Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management

• Supplier Collaboration — Work together with supply chain partners on engineering projects in a secure virtual workspace, quickly resolve issues, and confirm or adjust forecasts with suppliers.

• Information Lifecycle Solutions for PLM — Manage product data, meet service-level requirements, and migrate data across storage tiers throughout the PLM data lifecycle.

• Plant and Facilities Management — Share facility information such as computer-aided design (CAD) drawings, specifications, contracts, invoices, environmental analysis, inspection reports, and standard operating procedures (SOPs).

• OSHA and ISO 9000 Programs — Effectively manage all OSHA and ISO 9000 programs on a global basis. Speed setup of program processes and documentation with templates and collaborative team workspaces and keep projects on track via management dashboards.

Marketing and Sales

• Sales Proposal and Contract Management - Create, negotiate, and track versions of sales proposals and contracts, ensure use of approved terms and conditions, and ensure secure global access and reuse.

• Web Publishing — Provide up-to-date product information on websites, intranets, extranets, and portals from one common content repository.

Information Infrastructure

• Solutions for SAP - Improve system availability, minimize disruptions, and streamline your SAP production environment. Improve decision-making by integrating unstructured content with your SAP environment.

• Compliance and eDiscovery — Meet the strictest U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requirements for information retention, audit trails, and control of documents, process, security, and access.

• Information Security — Ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and access control of all types of information throughout its lifecycle.

• Backup, Recovery, and Archiving — Replicate and recover data to provide stronger information protection and enable compliance with regulations and corporate policies.

• Application High Availability for Manufacturing — Ensure high availability of mission-critical business applications, replicate data to local or remote locations, and monitor your applications, services, and servers for automated failover and business restart in the event of scheduled or unscheduled outages.