ProjectWise Integration Server V8i

CAD Standards Management

ProjectWise Integration Server provides organizations with tools to manage CAD standards to ensure that teams can work consistently and create consistent work.

Key benefits include:

• Enforce file naming standards for all ProjectWise documents 
• Associate project workspaces to project folders
• Cache workspaces locally for distributed teams
• Support for MicroStation Workspaces and AutoCAD profiles to maintain CAD standards

In fact, a move to improve the management of CAD standards can often reduce the overall cost of a project by helping to avoid common errors associated with using poorly structured information.

Reference File and XRef Management

Managing reference and XRef files is a challenge within a single office that is magnified when extended to include the management of reference files shared with external sources. When the enterprise is distributed the challenge increases exponentially.

Key benefits include:

• Manage all reference file and XRef relationships
• Tools to heal broken reference file relationships caused by moved or renamed files
• Query all references attached to a DGN/DWG directly from ProjectWise Explorer
• Find all files that reference any given DGN or DWG file
• Automatically access all attached reference files when the master CAD file is checked out

When you connect your people and information using ProjectWise Integration Server all CAD reference files are safely managed and distributed.

Microsoft SharePoint Integration

Now with over 90 million users worldwide, the primary information management system being used for collaboration in non-engineering environments is Microsoft Office SharePoint.

Key benefits of SharePoint and ProjectWise include:

• ProjectWise integrates with SharePoint using Web Parts
• SharePoint users access ProjectWise content using a browser
• Integration of SharePoint functionality includes online calendars, threaded discussions, lists, surveys, workflow and alerts, and more.

This is why ProjectWise has been designed to compliment, rather than compete with, Microsoft SharePoint for engineering content management and collaboration across distributed teams.

Protecting Engineering Content

One of the significant advantages of implementing a system like ProjectWise is that all appropriate policy, security, procedural, technical, and audit issues can be explored and identified or reassessed.

Key benefits include:

• Share files securely across organizational boundaries
• Define who can view and edit project content
• Manage user authentication using Microsoft Active Directory
• Control group, user, and document level access
• Connect PDF files in ProjectWise with Adobe Lifecycle server for digital signatures within PDFs managed by ProjectWise

Do you have the ability to grant or restrict access to a document at an enterprise, system, or file level?

Perhaps you need a little extra help. Perhaps you need to get connected by ProjectWise.

Streamlining Access

An estimated 40 percent of an engineer's time is spent looking for and validating engineering models, drawings, documents, and content. This is costing the infrastructure industry almost $16 billion annually.

Key benefits include:

• Adopt a project-centric approach to information management
• Index documents and engineering components
• Find documents and content using powerful search capabilities
• Create and manage file versions
• Track what happens to a document throughout its lifecycle
• Make documents available in multiple file formats

If you have trouble finding the files you need and/or want to see who last edited a file or who is working on a file right now, or if you need to access files in different formats to suit your needs, then perhaps you need to implement ProjectWise.

Improving Project Quality

The need to improve the quality of engineering content and processes is absolute to remain competitive in an increasingly global market. ProjectWise Integration Server can be deployed in accordance with internal, national, and internationally recognized quality processes.

Key benefits include:

• Make it easier to do things right instead of wrong
• Improve the quality and value of project content
• Safeguard the evidential value of project documents
• Create, manage, and deliver content in accordance with government requirements
• Satsify BSI and ISO standards

Are your standards, processes and systems helping improve the quality of your engineering content? Get connected by ProjectWise.

Scalable and Reliable System Infrastructure

Few organizations are placed to successfully predict their future. Few can know how their business will grow and fewer still can forsee and avoid system crashes which affect productivity and corrupt data. 

Not being able to predict the future is normal—which is why we built the ProjectWise Integration Server upon scalable and reliable systems architecture to better prepare organizations for future change.

Key benefits include:

• Teams can grow and distribute work across the enterprise
• Servers can be added to load-balance the network traffic
• Crashes and downtime can be avoided using clustered server configurations for fail-over security
• Large images can be accessed using streaming for improved raster-viewing performance

If you don't have a crystal ball, and you can't predict the future, you may want to implement ProjectWise—a reliable system that scales as your business changes.

Greater Project Insight

ProjectWise Integration Server can manage the storage of engineering content in many distributed locations, and the automated audit trail will record all document transactions to provide visibility into the lifecycle of a document.

Key benefits include an ability to find out:

• What happened to a particular document?
• When did it arrive? Who approved it? When was it deleted?
• Who last edited this document?
• Where is the document located?

Answering the last question enables teams to analyze the "flow" of "work" around the distributed enterprise to match workflow.

This insight into workflow enables the administrator to move file stores around the enterprise to make sure the original files are always stored closest to the largest body of users for optimal performance while continuing to cache files remotely.

Automated Batch and Scheduled Processing

Do you ever feel like you lack enough time in the day, or enough people to get all of the jobs done? Would an extra pair of hands make a difference? ProjectWise Integration Server can automate the processing and distribution of tasks to reduce your burden.

Key benefits include:

• Automated batch, scheduled, and event-based plotting
• Connection to other databases and stores
• Integration with third-party products like Adobe Lifecycle Server

With a ProjectWise Integration Server system working on your behalf you can turn your attentions to other issues for maximum productivity.