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LEVERAGE ALL YOUR CAD DATA WITH ACTIFY
Ask yourself what functionality is really
needed to be successful? An investment into
productivity tools which aren’t effectively
implemented or used to maximize business
impact, will erode profit margins. We know
that budget allocation is a scrutinized activity.
Many SMB manufacturers stretch their
resources before they consider investing into
expensive enterprise technology. Therefore, if
you’re considering investing in a PLM solution,
most likely your team is busier than ever, and
you can’t find the time to improve. structures, like engineering product data. A
graph database can effectively support the
complex relationships between different
assemblies, sub-assemblies, individual
components and related business data.
A graph database typically provides
the best performance when it comes to
richly connected data, like CAD parts and
associated engineering data such as cost,
material, supplier, specifications and testing
results – taking less time and memory to
perform search queries.
CAD data is a key component of product
design and supports a wide range of
downstream processes including prototyping,
technical publications, and work instructions.
Effectively managing CAD data provides
huge operational advantage for the business
and is often a top priority of PLM initiatives.
Unfortunately, many companies rely on
aging line-of-business systems and legacy
infrastructure that are unprepared to meet
market velocity challenges and were not
designed to support today’s requirements. Actify’s Enterprise Collaboration Platform
is everything you need to effectively
organize, track, view, and collaborate on
your enterprise files and CAD data. A
single system that compliments your
existing business systems and processes.
A place for all engineering data and
associated resources for effective enterprise
collaboration and product definition
management.
The new business paradigm requires
an architecture that is resilient and can
withstand rapid change yet span traditional
organizational and system boundaries to
support multiple roles and processes. Actify’s
technology is built upon a graph database
which is great at describing hierarchical
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Actify believes that manufacturing
companies have enormous, and often
untapped potential which is unused and
hidden within various business systems. Just
imagine if you could release the business
value and insight that is trapped in these
applications and other key data sources
like spreadsheets. Well, with Actify you can.
Learn more, visit www.actify.com
About Actify
At Actify we provide a set of business
solutions designed to support the
creation, management, dissemination
and collaborative use of product data (i.e.
product definition information including
BOM structures, CAD files, specifications,
requirements, manufacturing instructions,
etc.).
Many of today’s manufacturing companies
store their data in line-of-business systems
like PLM, ERP and Excel spreadsheets,
but not everyone has access to these
systems, and the user interface may
be cumbersome for the casual user.
Actify solves this challenge by enabling
cross-department collaboration, data
management and quick access to
extended product data that can help make
critical business decisions faster.
We believe that software tools can provide
tremendous benefits, especially for
manufacturing companies, through the
intelligent use of their available data and
through automating mundane processes.
Contact Actify for more information.
Visit: www.actify.com
Email: [email protected]