![]() WorkManagerUnderstanding Product Data Management and Workflow ManagementWorkManager answers the needs of those companies requiring a Product Data Management (PDM) and workflow solution. As a product data management solution, WorkManager supports the entire product life cycle by providing a secure, logical repository for product data. The system electronically automates what historically were paper-based processes. Through improved data integrity, WorkManager reduces errors, cuts costs and promotes design reusability. As a workflow management solution, WorkManager manages and tracks enterprise-wide processes. It records and centralizes information that once existed only in someone's head. Its flexible nature enables ad-hoc and pre-defined task routing, which improves enterprise-wide coordination and communication. And with a strong information management platform at its core, WorkManager provides central administration capabilities, including process supervision and intervention. How WorkManager Re-Engineers for ProductivityBased on familiar concepts and terminology, WorkManager works the way you work. It's also flexible and customizable, enabling organizations to control the ways in which information is created, organized, tracked, recorded, stored and retrieved. Using state-of-the-art relational database technology, information searches are fast and easy. And WorkManager enhances communication from person to person and department to department. While it permits users to access and share data easily, the system always ensures the security and accuracy of all master documents. At the same time, WorkManager gives users a way to monitor and track their processes, greatly increasing efficiency and productivity. Who depends on WorkManager?Today, WorkManager supports over 400 companies, including Hewlett-Packard . Over 15,000 users at more than 50 of HP's internal divisions depend on WorkManager to manage their work processes. By doing so, HP has streamlined cumbersome business practices, opening communication lines between departments such as design, planning and manufacturing. And they've taken control of the one, ever-changing element that ultimately is their measure of success: information. The Open Product Data Management SolutionWorkManager is designed for true open systems flexibility. It is easily integrated to work seamlessly with multiple products from multiple vendors, across multiple platforms. WorkManager delivers true interoperability across heterogeneous systems and networks. Powerful Graphical Workflow CapabilitiesLeading companies require more than tools that support a "business as usual" approach to data and process management improvements. What they require is a PDM solution that promotes a move to the next step in their process improvement efforts, while building upon the benefits obtained through earlier implementation efforts.
A major benefit of workflow technology is the ability to control the actual
path that is taken from the multitude of possible options. WorkManager's
workflow makes it easy to control the path through any workflow process by
providing powerful yet easy-to-use rules functionality.
WorkManager offers a complete data-management desktop, tuned to the needs of
engineering environments, and provides in-depth integration to CoCreate's
suite of Computer Aided Design systems. The design systems include the ME10 2D
Design and Drafting System as well as the SolidDesigner 3D Solids Modeling
solution. In addition, it offers a powerful integration environment that
allows partners to integrate any third-party applications into WorkManager.
Ease of Use
Open SolutionThe desktop configuration can easily be extended with all other WorkManager modules. This provides outstanding flexibility to tailor the system to your specific needs - from CAD document management within your design team up to enterprise-wide product data management. Application Integration and the WorkManager Integration KitWorkManager supports interoperability across heterogeneous systems and networks. At the same time it provides a strong offering of application integration products (AIP's) that further extend its value to your organization. For example, engineering firms use a variety of software applications, including mechanical CAD, electrical CAD, View/Markup/Edit and word processing applications. To simplify file finding and facilitate the sharing of information between these applications, WorkManager integrates enterprise-wide applications. Using the WorkManager Integration Kit, integrators, value-added partners and
customers can create their own application integrations, based on WorkManager.
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