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In order to retain and enhance competitiveness in today's manufacturing marketplace, companies are looking for ways to improve their collaborative capabilities. New technologies for document management, online meetings, supplier portals, and unified communications are being delivered to the marketplace with ever increasing frequency, but all share a common problem — few, if any, are designed with the needs of manufacturers in mind. Specifically, how do all of these valuable capabilities work with the product data represented in the form of 2D and 3D data contained in proprietary data formats? Can they be used in a solution which is flexible, extensible, highly adoptable, and cost effective?

In order to address this need, Actify has developed DesignShare™, an implementation of our award-winning SpinFire™ product data visualization technology on top of the Microsoft SharePoint platform. Users can now reuse and repurpose product data from directly within the SharePoint environment, making the process of setting up both internal and external collaboration sites very easy and highly adoptable. Using the power of SharePoint, data that was previously unmanaged can now be as organized and as controlled as required, including such capabilities as change notification and versioning of information.

Going further, Actify has recognized the need of our customers to be able to not only use product data in collaborative activities, but also have the need to be able to find the relevant data, effectively and safely share that data with others, and to further manage the data involved in the collaborative process. Actify has partnered with leading technology firms to integrate their technology into the DesignShare platform for such things as workflow, intellectual property protection, and project management. This provides a complete solution for such use models as product data visualization, supply chain management, intellectual property management, and product innovation management. For more about these different uses, see our Solutions section.

Explore the various products in this section to find out which DesignShare product is best for you.