CADnection Ships AutoCAD-SharePoint Integration
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ANA, CA, Feb 21, 2008 - CADnection today announced the availability of its
signature AutoCAD and Microsoft SharePoint integration product. CADnection
provides a seamless exchange between AutoCAD, the widely used engineering
and architectural drafting program, and SharePoint, Microsoft’s integrated
suite of server capabilities for facilitating information-sharing, content
management, search and business process acceleration.
CADnection unifies the strengths of AutoCAD and SharePoint by improving
productivity, overall product quality and time to market for AutoCAD users
of all kinds. The CADnection solution has been specifically designed to
leverage SharePoint’s ability to manage and ensure the integrity of drawings
and reference files (XREFS), facilitate search and retrieval based on
drawing content, and control access to drawing data both internally and
externally. CADnection’s ability to be quickly implemented coupled with a
cost effective pricing structure, ultimately offers customers a high value
solution with a quick ROI. CADnection is particularly salient for firms that
may already leverage SharePoint for managing other business content.
SharePoint by Microsoft is a single platform for intranet, Internet, and
extranet applications that enables businesses to manage content, improve
business insight and simplify internal and external collaboration.
Simon Floyd, Worldwide Industry Technology Strategist for Product
Lifecycle Management, Microsoft Corp. says, “SharePoint’s strength as a
platform for collaboration in an industry context is exemplified by
CADnection. The CAD data management needs of construction and engineering
operations are well addressed with this solution, which provides the ability
to manage CAD files, their dependencies and metadata in one easy-to- use
environment.”
AutoCAD users are able to check-out/check-in their drawings and reference
files to SharePoint from directly within the AutoCAD interface. Anyone with
an Internet browser can access these drawings in the same manner as any
other documents managed in SharePoint. Special features allow for a quick
search, view and launch of AutoCAD projects.
Optional wizards guide the exchange processes between AutoCAD and
SharePoint, including search, check-out and check-in activities, making the
network easy to navigate. Access controls and other security measures can be
assigned within the SharePoint environment.
"We are excited about bringing such a powerful, yet simple solution to
the market,” says David Wolfe, Chief Marketing Officer for CADnection.
"CADnection is designed to allow users immediate use of the integration.
AutoCAD users can now seamlessly take advantage of SharePoint's content
management and collaboration capabilities."
SharePoint delivers a full set of data management capabilities, which now
perfectly complement the needs of engineering and architecture
organizations, including access controls, the locking and unlocking drawings
and reference files, revision management, as well as extensive collaboration
and workflow capabilities.
Within the AutoCAD application, users can quickly search and retrieve
drawings based on metadata and/or content via the SharePoint search engine.
Additional integration features include the ability to map AutoCAD
drawing properties and attribute tags to SharePoint properties. Information
from the AutoCAD file may also be updated to SharePoint during the check-in
process. Likewise, drawing properties maintained in SharePoint can be
updated and reflected back in the AutoCAD file during check-out.
CADnection utilizes the Microsoft .NET framework adopted by Autodesk. As
a result, users maintain the unique functionality and strengths of each
application.
About CADnection
CADnection was founded in early 2007 with the express mission of
delivering a high quality, feature-rich AutoCAD / SharePoint integration
that would be easy to implement at low cost. It operates as a business unit
of the vdR Group, Inc. The people behind the solution have more than 15
years of experience integrating Autodesk products as well as other
engineering data and content management-oriented applications.
The features and functionality of CADnection are reflected in the
solution's ease of use, configurability, and native application technology.
CADnection focuses on getting the best out of AutoCAD and SharePoint, with
non-disruptive implementations, quick deployments and improved productivity.
It is sold in 25-seat bundles and licensed on a subscription basis. The
integration is available immediately directly from the company at
www.cadnection.com or by calling
1.877.887.7833.
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