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Engineering Documents Anytime, Anywhere!

Think about it.

You spend millions of dollars and hundreds of man-years to engineer your project. This entire investment is contained in your engineering drawings. Then you lock the drawings in a closet where no one can find them.

If you are an engineering-focused organization, your challenge is to provide the infrastructure that allows your engineering teams to manage, distribute, and collaborate on technical information equally as well as the rest of your organization does with business information.

Internet-based engineering document management and collaboration is the answer. Online document vaults with electronic collaboration offer the speed and convenience of anywhere, anytime access. It's all about getting the right information to the right people at the right time.

Using the Internet to distribute and collaborate with digital engineering documents offers these benefits:

Rapid deployment

Web-based applications can be rapidly deployed across widespread enterprises since there is no client software to install on each user's computer or PocketPC. The best of these applications lets users access, view, markup, and print engineering documents using only a standard Web browser.

Eliminate delays, cut operating costs

Instant access to business critical engineering documents means there's no time wasted waiting on paper copies from a central reprographics department. The cost to ship the paper drawings to others is eliminated.

Speed production via online collaboration

Traveling to meetings is time-consuming and expensive for widespread project teams. The Web lets these teams hold live online and phone conferences to view and mark up engineering drawings. This prevents costly delays and speeds the production or construction cycle.

Improved information distribution

Send e-mail with a hot link that drives the recipient directly to documents inside the secure document vault. Or, send engineering plans with a built-in viewer so that they can be viewed, marked up, and synchronized with your document vault automatically, without any special CAD software.

Quick ROI

Management wants technologies that deliver returns in months, not years. Web-based engineering document collaboration lets companies quickly reduce lost time and operating expenses. The savings add up quickly.