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SMARTEAM Foundation (FDN)

Overview

SMARTEAM Foundation (FDN) is a complete enterprise product information collaboration platform that enables teams across the extended enterprise to collaborate on product data in a concurrent engineering environment. It delivers complete organizational collaboration across all enterprise applications and is configured for optimal use of a company’s IT infrastructure.

FDN provides secure, real-time access to product data for authorized users from virtually anywhere on the globe. The SMARTEAM repository ensures data integrity and core technologies enable global access. LDAP support enables all SMARTEAM products to support authentication of users against an LDAP server (such as Windows Active Directory, IBM Directory Server and others).

FDN is required for each SMARTEAM user and is included in all SMARTEAM configuration packages.

Features

  • Robust product knowledge platform
    • SMARTEAM core
    • Administration and customization tools
    • Vault server
    • Web server
    • Full text search capabilities
  • Extensive data control and storage, and advanced and comprehensive security mechanisms, ensuring integrity throughout the lifecycle
  • Provides state-of-the-art authentication, including LDAP support
  • Authorization settings
    • Role-, user- and group-based authorization
  • Open architecture for interoperability across the enterprise and beyond
  • Highly flexible Data Model and extensive built-in Microsoft® Windows®-based customization tools, for easy customization and adaptability to the way the organization works and its needs
  • Scalability in performance and throughout the enterprise
  • Facilitates collaboration and reuse of data and other corporate intellectual property, across the workgroup, enterprise and supply chain
  • Report connector (with OLE DB enabler)

Key customer benefits

  • Full control over data integrity and secured access
  • Optimal use of corporate assets and intellectual property, due to a broad range of information types supported ranging from CAD application data and application data to STMP data and more
  • Robust management of data relationships
  • Greater organizational efficiency through electronically controlled review and approval processes, automation of records
  • Improved productivity through fast, accurate retrieval of information
  • Reduced costs through collaborative design and concurrent engineering

System Requirements

Product prerequisites

  • None

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