straitPortal

straitPortal is synonym for ‘ENOVIA SmarTeam for the Web’. The straitPortal Portfolio offers the following solutions:

• SmarTeam-SharePoint Integration for Document Management and Workflow;
• straitPortal Express: SmarTeam Web Access in your own portals AND in SharePoint;
• SmarTeam Subcontractor Collaboration via the Web;
• SmarTeam Office Integration over the Web.

All modules offer quick and simple, web-based access to the SmarTeam database. straitPortal is the solution for all employees outside of your engineering department!

ENOVIA SmarTeam itself need not be installed. All access to ENOVIA SmarTeam of course goes through the layer with business logic (the API). This allows each employee to find and adjust all the information (provided he has appropriate authorizations).

The main features and benefits include:

• SmarTeam installation serverside only;
• Full support of all SmarTeam Business Logic: access via API;
• Fast, easy access;
• Customizable screens per user group / role;
• All information is visible at a glance by intelligent screen layout;
• Built on the latest Microsoft Web Server technology;
• Attractive pricing and low cost of ownership.

SmarTeam-SharePoint Integration for Document Management and Workflow

These two modules integrate processes that previously were separate. Many organizations manage their Office documents and related workflows within SharePoint, the accessible collaboration platform from Microsoft. SmarTeam manages technical data such as 3D CAD drawings, parts, parts lists and all revisions and relationships. The information from SharePoint and SmarTeam is functionally speaking a whole, but situated in two separate systems.

straitPortal integrates the systems (and hence work processes) by an intelligent synchronization of shared data. Employees do not have to change systems to consult information from “another system”. All shared information from SmarTeam is fully visible in SharePoint and vice versa. What information is shared (documents and workflows) is easy to set up per deployment.

straitPortal integrates Office documents from SharePoint in SmarTeam. Search functions are integrated, as well as functions for editing a document, revision management, and project authorizations. Unique is the ability to link SharePoint documents to structures in SmarTeam.
Workflow integration combines the SmarTeam and SharePoint workflows. These hybrid workflows are visible in both systems, and users of both systems can participate in a single workflow.

The underlying synchronization technique is powerful, yet amazingly elegant and maintainable. Intelligent functions ensure the data integrity (through ownership). If the synchronization temporarily shuts down, then both systems remain fully functional. The synchronization module requires only a minimal extension of the two systems and allow the core functionality to remain intact.

The main features and benefits include:

• Integration of two systems and core processes that were previously separate
• Fast, easy access within user’s “own” system of all shared information “from the other system”
• Full integration of workflows from both systems for far-reaching process integration
• ENOVIA SmarTeam installation is not required at SharePoint clients
• Full support of all ENOVIA SmarTeam Business Logic: access via API
• Robust and fully monitored synchronisation, “data ownership” for data integrity
• Minimal enhancements to both systems, core functions remain intact
• Built on the latest Microsoft (Web Server) technology

SmarTeam Web Access in your own (SharePoint) portal

A simple business case of many companies with ENOVIA SmarTeam is: fast and simple Web Access to ENOVIA SmarTeam data for employees outside the Engineering Department. The great example is often Google: simple search, quick results, possibly even with graphical results if requested. straitPortal Express offers a similar solution for access to ENOVIA SmarTeam. User screens are easy to put together with so-called Web Parts. These are “building blocks” from which the entire user interface is built. Examples are: Google-like Search “, tree structure, Viewer, Revision list, etc. Each user role receives a customized screen, focusing on simplicity, speed and unmatched ease of use.

The main features and benefits include:

• Fast, easy access to ENOVIA SmarTeam archive
• Access from stand-alone Web Page/site, integrated into a company’s own portal and / or from SharePoint Portal
• Users screens customisable per role
• User configurable screens which are easily customizable without programming
• ENOVIA SmarTeam installation not required on systems with Web Access
• Full support of all ENOVIA SmarTeam Business Logic: access via API
• Built on the latest Microsoft (Web Server) technology
• Affordable module, very low cost of ownership

SmarTeam Subcontractor Collaboration on the Web

straitPortal supports collaboration via the Web. In many collaborations, a contractor executes (project specific) engineering work for the client. The client would like to be able to monitor progress. It is also important that all the new work fits into the numbering and classification scheme of the client. Retrospectively registering new documentation is very labor intensive – the renumbering of 3D CAD models and drawings often (nearly) impossible.

This straitPortal module supports the following process steps: web access for subcontractor to shielded projects, creation of registration cards in ENOVIA SmarTeam in accordance with all applicable rules (numbering, classifications, etc), possibility to apply for additional numbers at any time, upload of CAD models, check for duplicate ENOVIA SmarTeam numbers during upload, clear reports of outsourced work and its progress. All this without the sub contractor having to have access to ENOVIA SmarTeam.

The main features and benefits include:

• Simple portal for client and contractor collaboration
• Full support of all ENOVIA SmarTeam Business Logic: access via API
• Very simple operation
• ENOVIA SmarTeam installation not required on systems with Web Access
• Built on the latest Microsoft (Web Server) technology

SmarTeam Office Integration through the Web

ENOVIA SmarTeam offers excellent opportunities for managing Office documents. Management of these documents in ENOVIA SmarTeam has the great advantage that they can be fully integrated into existing product and project structures. There is also support for change procedures and advanced workflows.

The ENOVIA SmarTeam Office integration via the Web provides a simple solution for unparalleled Office document management with ENOVIA SmarTeam. A user does not need to startup ENOVIA SmarTeam. Creating, uploading, searching, revising and editing takes place with some clever features, which are fast and easy to use. This module provides the solution for companies wishing to use the power of ENOVIA SmarTeam, but with a simple operation!

The main features and benefits include:

• Fully Integrated Office Management, from Office menus / ribbons;
• Support for Office 2003/2007/2010;
• Very easy to operate;
• Minimum logon time to ENOVIA SmarTeam database, quick to use;
• ENOVIA SmarTeam installation is not required on system with Web access;
• Full support of all SmarTeam Business Logic: access via API;
• Built on the latest Microsoft (Web Server) technology;

• Very low cost of ownership.

straitPortal Partners

straitPortal is available through a worldwide network of Value Adding Resellers. Contact them directly or contact infostrait for more partners.
Some partners:

CIMTek S.A. (ES)

Razorleaf Corporation (USA)

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