CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
23 July 2008
Product News
Synergis Software Delivers Adept 8 Enterprise Document Management and Workflow
Synergis Software unveiled Adept 8, the newest version of the company's document management and workflow software. Adept 8 delivers dozens of new features that extend its core capabilities, helping clients manage, share and control design and business documents throughout their lifecycle. Adept 8 features full text searching, bill of material automation, transmittal automation, advanced workflow capabilities, support for MicroStation® V8, and tight integration with the 2009 family of Autodesk® design software. Adept 8 also incorporates productivity boosting features for email management and notification as well as advanced data importing tools that allow customers to easily add richer content into Adept for superior searching and reporting.
"Our decision to purchase Adept was driven by increased competition and the need to reduce costs and comply with industry standards," said Manager of Corporate Services, Keith Mailloux of Ferguson Perforating. "Before using Adept, we ran the risk of manufacturing incorrect parts for our products, which impacted time to market and increased product costs.
"Adept 8 virtually eliminated our document management and engineering change control problems," said Kevin Larkin, IT manager, Ferguson Perforating, and a beta tester for Adept 8. "Adept helps us streamline our design through manufacturing process and gives us the accountability we always wanted but could never achieve."
"Synergy between people, processes and information are foundational to our clients' success," said Scott Lamond, vice president of marketing, Synergis Software. "With increased globalization and stronger competition, Adept helps companies reduce operating costs, increase efficiency, and deliver higher quality products. Companies that use Adept 8 have more powerful automation capabilities to achieve their number one goal -- higher productivity."
New Feature Highlights of Adept 8
Full Text Search within the Contents of Documents
Adept's full text search capability allows users to search the contents of documents managed by Adept, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, DWG and many others. Boolean search terms like "and," "or," "near," and "not" can be used to find a very specific results set. Full text search, combined with Adept's powerful structured metadata searching, gives users limitless ability to find the right information fast.
Bill of Materials Automation
Users can automatically create an Excel-based Bill of Material within Adept and can easily configure the output in either indented or flat formats, and can save settings for future use. SolidWorks® and Inventor users also benefit from Adept's ability to track quantities of parts and assemblies.
Transmittal Automation
Adept makes the process of creating, sending, and tracking transmittals easy while reducing commonplace errors found in paper-based transmittal processes. From inside Adept's controlled environment, users can create customize transmittal forms or cover sheets and search for and select the documents to be sent with the transmittal.
Workflow Enhancements
Administrators have greater flexibility when setting up automated workflows; they can set time limits on a workflow and send alerts when there's a delay, set up multiple approvals at any workflow step, send email notifications, automatically advance documents, and assign files to other users.
Support for MicroStation V8 DGN Files
In addition to core Adept 8 document management capabilities such as searching, revision control, workflow, and audit trail, Adept's MicroStation integration provides unique value in these three ways:
Tag Linking -- Text tags from MicroStation-based drawings are automatically extracted into Adept, thereby eliminating manual data entry and ensuring the information can be used for searching or generating reports. Because the link between MicroStation tags and Adept is bi-directional, authorized users can update MicroStation tags from within Adept in single or batch mode, without opening the original drawing files or needing MicroStation on the workstation.
Reference File Management -- Adept 8 manages and tracks MicroStation reference file relationships throughout the document lifecycle. As files are copied, moved, checked out, revised, and routed, Adept ensures that file relationships are maintained. Adept displays these relationships so users can see Where Used and other related file dependencies.
Visualization and Markup -- With built-in enterprise visualization software, Adept provides native support for viewing of MicroStation files as well as other 2D and 3D CAD files, scanned and raster documents, office documents, graphics files, and EDA PCB/IC layouts and schematics.
Support for Latest Versions of Autodesk Design Software
Adept supports the latest versions of the Autodesk® 2009 family of products, including AutoCAD® , AutoCAD® LT, AutoCAD® Mechanical, Autodesk® Inventor™, AutoCAD® Land Desktop, AutoCAD® Civil 3D, AutoCAD® Architecture, AutoCAD® MEP, AutoCAD® Electrical, and other Autodesk design products.
Audit Trail Improvements
Adept provides improved audit trail management tools to archive, export or delete a growing repository of historical audit trail records. Users can also limit the records to display in the Audit Trail tab so it's easier to find relevant information.
A complete list of new features can be found on the Adept 8 website at http://www.synergissoftware.com/features/index.php.
Availability
Adept 8 desktop and web client versions are available worldwide directly from Synergis Software and through strategic resellers in North America. Adept is available on three database platforms, including Microsoft® SQL, MySQL® and Oracle® . Information on pricing, implementation, training, and customization services is available from Synergis Software.
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