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"ProjectWise was introduced into Wood Group Engineering North Sea (WGENS) to provide an electronic data management system that would allow integrated CAD and Office file management for worldwide data distribution. In 2005 WGENS saved an estimated 3000 man hours by using ProjectWise."



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10 raisons d'acheter ProjectWise Integration Server

1
Connecting the Enterprise

Globalization has changed the way we work by introducing opportunities to collaborate on projects on the other side of the world. One of the greatest challenges therefore facing infrastructure teams is the management of content so necessarily distributed.

At the heart of the ProjectWise collaboration system of servers sits the ProjectWise Integration Server. Key benefits include:

  • Connect multiple teams and offices across the enterprise
  • Federate all project data regardless of storage location
  • Cache distributed files locally for fast LAN-like access
  • Integrate with other enterprise document management systems

ProjectWise Integration Server will also integrate with your most frequently used applications for file and content access and for full text indexing. Some supported applications include:

  • MicroStation, PowerDraft, TriForma, and AutoCAD
  • Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and Outlook
  • Microsoft Visio and Inso Quickview

With ProjectWise Integration Server your globally distributed teams and project information is collocated virtually.

 
2
CAD Standards Management

The ProjectWise Integration Server provides organizations with tools to manage CAD standards to ensure that teams can work consistently and create consistent work. This includes the ability to:
  • Enforce file naming standards for all ProjectWise documents 
  • Associate project workspaces to project folders
  • Cache workspaces locally for distributed teams
  • Support for 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.

3
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 received from external sources. When the enterprise is distributed the challenge increases exponentially.

ProjectWise Integration Server:

  • Manages all Reference File and XRef relationships
  • Provides tools to heal broken reference file relationships caused by moved or renamed files
  • Enables a user to query all references attached to a DGN/DWG directly from ProjectWise Explorer
  • Allows a user to see all files that reference the selected file
  • Automatically delivers 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.

4
Microsoft SharePoint Integration

Now with over 80 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 integration includes:

  • 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, etc.

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

5
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.

ProjectWise Integration Server provides an opportunity to:

  • 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 creation from 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 be more ProjectWise.

6
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.

ProjectWise Integration Server streamlines content access to:

  • 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

So 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.

7
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 to:

  • 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? Be "ProjectWise!"

8
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.

When organizations implement ProjectWise Integration Server they are well placed to:

  • Have team growth while distributing work across the enterprise
  • Add servers to load-balance the network traffic
  • Avoid system crash downtime using clustered server configurations for fail-over security
  • Access large images 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.

9
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 the ability to ask and answer a number of questions:

  • 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.

10
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 Livecycle Server

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