DraftSight

Interesting things to note about DraftSight:

• The enterprise version will be offered through all Dassault sales channels
  • Professional Channel (SolidWorks resellers)
  • Value Channel (CATIA, ENOVIA, etc. resellers)
  • Business Transformation Channel (Dassault direct for specific accounts)
• SolidWorks will provide support directly rather than through the channel
• A DraftSight community will set product direction
• The DraftSight download is 42 Megabytes
• A full API (including for LISP) will be available to enterprise users
• Instead of individual activation, enterprise users will be managed via FlexLM license management
• Individual users are required to activate the software, but this only requires inputting an email address
• Integrations for Enterprise PDM, ENOVIA SmarTeam, and other PDM platforms are being considered

Did we already mention that it is free?  Please contact us if you’re interested in DraftSight for the enterprise and you have questions about some of the enterprise features – we’d be happy to help.

V6 gives anyone who has a stake in the product the ability to participate in its life cycle. It offers unparalleled breadth of collaboration because it embraces the product's creators and its ecosystem, such as people in procurement or marketing inside or outside the enterprise, as well as consumers. Because it uses the universal language of 3D, everybody can participate in a product's life cycle.

V6 enables viral collaboration. Online communities can form in an impromptu fashion, allowing people to connect, exchange views, chat, and act on the fly in 3D.

With global collaborative innovation, companies can maximize their intellectual assets to drive the best innovative practices.

Lifelike experience

V6 allows the virtual product to mirror real life. Products look realistic (through rendering) and behave as they would in real life.

Additionally, the V6 interface is intuitive. Any user can easily search for information, communicate, collaborate, and experience products online in 3D.

A single PLM platform for intellectual property management

The sheer volume of IP necessitates strong IP management capabilities across a product's life cycle. The V6 PLM platform delivers a federated view and access to all relevant knowledge, whether the information is in the PLM system, another enterprise application, or from an unstructured data source.

Online creation and collaboration

Product authoring and collaboration are enabled for real-time, concurrent work across multiple remote locations over the Web. For example, a designer working remotely on a laptop from home can log in and directly edit a model residing on a server in the office.

Online creation and collaboration are also critical to any company seeking to implement a global engineering and manufacturing strategy.

Ready-to-use PLM business processes

V6 covers PLM processes across a wide range of industries and unifies engineering processes and all enterprise business processes. V6 industry accelerators capture the value within each industry and provide industry-specific PLM product development best practices and capabilities. As a result, deployments are faster and deliver a return on investment sooner.

Lower cost of ownership

Having a single database for all applications dramatically reduces the cost of ownership and spurs efficient collaboration. By embracing SOA standards allows easy integration with existing systems and modeling of business processes without requiring programming skills, supporting an adaptable business model.

The goal, Keller told me, is to make SharePoint the first place employees go at the beginning of their work day. He said:

When we roll out Exchange 2010 later this year and have the advanced features of OWA (Outlook Web Access) embedded into SharePoint, hopefully you'll be able to go to the multi-tabbed intranet where you might see Outlook and all of that related information on one tab, then all of your Web applications and Citrix-provisioned applications on another tab, and all of the reports and analytics you need in another tab. I think all of the toolsets are mature enough, and interact together enough, that it will work.

Yet many tech execs will adopt a wait-and-see attitude toward the forthcoming SharePoint 2010 release, expected in the first half of this year. A CIO.com article quotes Scott Gode, VP of product management at Azaleos, a service provider that helps companies deploy and manage SharePoint and Exchange environments, who says many CIOs will wait at least six months after the product becomes generally available or until service pack 1 is released. (Based on my experience, this time frame is pretty common for Microsoft products.) The requirement for 64-bit hardware will hold at least some CIOs back, says Gode.

Full Article here…

Connect People, Systems, Processes - with SharePoint by Microsoft

WSS 3.0 provides easy to manage and use intranet sites for teams and groups within your business, school or college. Allowing people to collaborate on projects, share up-to-date information – improving communication and team productivity. 

It connects people, systems, processes and information together and allows the sharing of lists, calendars, announcements, discussions, surveys and multimedia documents in a simple and easy way – all from your browser. SharePoint connects seamlessly with Microsoft Office 2003 and Office 2007.

Create easy to manage Document libraries

Now you can have all your corporate information and documents in one central place. Managing is so much easier with check-in/out, version control and Email alerts. These can be set-up to tell you when new documents are added to the library, or alert you when content changes on any document. Since WSS is browser based, access from any internet connected PC or handheld device is straightforward and secure.

Collaborate and Synchronize with MS Office

SharePoint's tight integration with Microsoft Office means WSS can provide your organization with simple but effective synchronization with calendars, contact and task lists within Outlook and other MS Office applications. Functionality can be further improved by the use of third party applications or Webparts.

Adaptive can provide additional custom development to meet your specific business processes and application integration needs.

Quick Start with Templates for fast results

WSS 3.0 includes site templates to get you up and running faster. Built around 40 common processes, each template provides functionality that shows the many ways that SharePoint can be used in your business, school or college.

These templates are straightforward to install and configure through the standard SharePoint interface or can be customized by using the Free SharePoint Designer.

Adaptive Corporation can provide consulting, expertise and advice to show you how to extend the value of these templates; in addition many advanced features can be introduced including process workflows or integration with existing business applications.

Note:   Prior to downloading WSS 3.0 SP2 please ensure you have the following:

• Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2

or

• Windows Server 2008

Download WSS 3.0 Now…

Software offer by Dassault Systemes’ ENOVIA PLM Division specifically for SolidWorks

Offer consists of:

• ENOVIA PLM Express for SolidWorks
• Adaptives QuickStart Process to implement ENOVIA PLM Express for SolidWorks in 5 days or less
• PDM Platform that scales to PLM

Visit the link below to view our Webinar and learn more about this special offer by Dassault Systemes and Adaptive Corporation…

PLM Express for SolidWorks by ENOVIA Webinar Replay below…

PLM Express for SolidWorks Users – January 2010

Adaptive Corporation to attend and present at the COE Aerospace & Defense Workshop in Fort Worth, Texas October 11th and 12th

The COE Aerospace & Defense Workshop features two days of industry-focused education and hands-on training on the Dassault PLM solutions suite of products.  All education featured at the workshop is developed by and for users of CATIA®, ENOVIA®, DELMIA® and SIMULIA®.

The Workshop also features many opportunities to meet and network with top experts and professionals in the Aerospace & Defense industries. Don't miss your chance to find solutions to your biggest issues with the help of the COE community.

Adaptive Corporation:  Helping you get business value from what you already have !! September / 2009   Adaptive Corporation helps companies leverage SharePoint as a platform for online collaboration, both internal and external to your organization. Why Don’t More People Use SharePoint Workflow?    We were surprised recently while giving a SharePoint presentation at SPTECHCON Boston. Of the 60 attendees, only four used Workflow in SharePoint. My comment back to the audience was this: How can you have collaboration (which is what SharePoint is for) if you don’t have workflow? Most nodded their head in agreement. This exchange got me to thinking…   Learn more, click here.   SharePoint Options  Contrary to popular belief, SharePoint is actually a family of products and is growing to offer more and more functionality. As such, one of the first decision points before testing/deploying SharePoint is whether to use the free version (Windows SharePoint Services – WSS) or the enterprise version (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server – MOSS).   Since WSS and MOSS have the same set of core features, it seems more relevant to focus on the differences…   Learn More, Click Here  SharePoint Licensing Basics  So you want to roll out SharePoint to help collaborate on documents and data. You have heard that Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) is free and included as part of Windows Server 2003. From this, it sounds like you can just have IT install it, provide you the URL and you will be all set, however, that may or may not be the case…   Learn More…     Meet ShareVis       Recent Customers: American Airlines, Citation, Dresser Industries, Pfizer US Congress, ATS, Royal Bank of Canada, Polaris, US Endoscopy, PowerWay, Mercedes, Kaz, L-3 Communications   Add powerful Webform and Workflow to SharePoint without programming or hard-coding.     Unlimited processes, Unlimited  users, , (i.e.HR, legal, quality, engineering, SOX) unlimited users, one flat fee.    See Your Process In  Action Just send us your Forms, your Workflow process and we will do the rest, allowing you to see the power of SharePoint.    ShareVis is a leading toolkit for Web-Form Integrated Workflow Automation   Next ShareVis Webinar: September 23, 2009 1:00pm – 2:00pm Click Here    Adaptive Corporation Contact Us…  877-286-6180

]]> http://www.adaptivecorp.com/news/newsletters/page/newsletter-september-2009/feed/ 0 http://www.adaptivecorp.com/uncategorized/why-sharepoint-workflow/page/why-you-should-consider-sharepoint-workflow/ http://www.adaptivecorp.com/uncategorized/why-sharepoint-workflow/page/why-you-should-consider-sharepoint-workflow/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:10:18 +0000 fthomas http://www.adaptivecorp.com/?p=1091 I was pretty surprised recently while giving a SharePoint presentation at a San Francisco conference.  Of the 60 attendees, only four used Workflow in SharePoint. My comment back to the audience was this: How can you have collaboration (which is what SharePoint is for) if you don’t have workflow? Most nodded their head in agreement.

This exchange got me to thinking…why are so few people leveraging business process automation in SharePoint. Here are some thoughts:

• They don’t understand the process. A SharePoint deployment is typically managed by the IT staff. The IT staff may not know the first thing about the document approval process, the employee review process, the new employee hire process and so on. If you don’t understand a process, you can’t automate it.
• Not enough time. Once again the IT staff is tasked with many things and interviewing process participants and building these complex processes just doesn’t make the list.
• The current process is not ideal. Maybe you do know your process. Maybe you know your process inside and out. But maybe the process leaves a lot to be desired. You think, why automate a bad process? That will just allow us to get more bad things done a lot faster.
• You don’t have the necessary tools. SharePoint gives you templates, SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio as options for creating workflows. Each tool has its pros and cons, but in many cases none of these tools will allow a process owner (i.e. non-IT guy or gal) to create complex business processes. Check-out ShareVis for additional information on solving this issue.

It’s unfortunate that these and similar issues prevent the roll out of SharePoint workflow. As I said at the outset, you can’t have true collaboration without workflow – after all, everything you do is part of some business process. I would encourage you to figure out why you are not using SharePoint workflow and then work to correct the issues.

Written by Derek Neiding of Razorleaf Corporation

Since WSS and MOSS have the same set of core features, it seems more relevant to focus on the differences between them in making the decision. Keep in mind that both versions have the same capabilities in the key areas of lists, file management, permissions, and other basic functionality.

The following is a list of features that MOSS includes but WSS does not include. The list is not comprehensive, but covers the major areas.
My Sites: Customizable site for each employee to have their own dashboard to what they are working on and what concerns them.

Social Networking: Visibility of co-workers presence and instant messaging integration.

Site Directory: Site searching tool to allow users to find sites and links quickly.

Enterprise Search: Multiple site and non-SharePoint site crawling to bring data from multiple location to the end user’s fingertips.

Business Data Catalog/Business Data Search: The integration of SharePoint to external business systems allows connections to other web services, relational databases, etc. For example, a field in your ERP system could drive the value of a column in your SharePoint list.

Excel Services: Allows users to view and interact with Excel spreadsheets housed in SharePoint in an Excel-like interface. In other words, users don’t have to download the Excel file in order to work with its data.

Information Rights Management (IRM): Allows an administrator to expire and delete a document after a given amount of time or initiate a Workflow on a document at set intervals.