Actify DesignShare™ Foundation improves innovation and reduces expenses by enabling workgroups to quickly and securely track, collaborate on, and manage CAD data, plus all related documents, enterprise-wide. Easily deployed, it unites the Actify Suite of Products with the document management, sharing, and collaboration capabilities built into every Microsoft® SharePoint™ managed environment.

DesignShare Foundation Benefits

  • Improve innovation and lean initiatives
  • Increase productivity with access to any piece of product information by anyone, anywhere regardless of role
  • Faster time-to-market with eliminated collaboration cycles
  • Reduce expenses caused by out-of-date information

The DesignShare solution performs a range of sophisticated digital design communications tasks such as creating team worksites that can be further customized to meet job or department-specific needs. Intuitive dashboards enable you to view, annotate, and upload project information, as well as automatically convert—on demand or in batch mode—all major 2D and 3D native CAD data formats to Actify's system-neutral .3D format.

Reduce data-sharing costs by extending your PLM environment to include team members outside of engineering to work, collaborate, share ideas effectively, regardless of location. Typical PLM systems have a limited reach, only allowing collaboration and data exchange among engineers and designers who work closely with PLM's, leaving other departments, branches, etc. out of the data exchange and collaboration loop. By integrating the DesignShare Solution with your existing PLM, you can close the loop on sharing data throughout your extended enterprise.

Increase productivity and innovation for companies who want to control and organize all project data and documents, but don't want the expense or risk of implementing a complex PLM system. Implementing DesignShare on its own is ideal, because DesignShare is built on the SharePoint platform, installation and set up is easy. Team sites can be up and running within a day, allowing anyone in your extended enterprise, value supply chain, and even customers, immediate access to design documents via the online SharePoint portal. Logins and permissions control, document versioning and alerts provide a secure environment for innovation and collaboration among users.

Innovation Through Collaboration

Unlike product data management (PDM) and product lifecycle management (PLM) systems, Actify DesignShare is affordable, easy to work with, simple to deploy and equally well-suited for use by small teams or large enterprises. It can function on its own for companies who are looking for a collaboration, data management solution less complex than a PLM System. For companies who already have a PLM, Actify DesignShare can be easily integrated as a complement to the system, allowing users outside of the engineering department to have access to all product data and information stored in your PLM system. If your company designs or manufactures mechanical products, and wants to both facilitate CAD data collaboration and control the communications process and information—Actify DesignShare is the answer.