New Data Management Products

By DE Editors

Store Your Data
Penguin Computing (penguincomputing.com)  will offer DataDirect Networks’s (ddn.com)  suite of HPC and Big Data storage solutions to its global customer base. Penguin has an installed base of more than 18,000 systems in more than 40 countries. Customers will be able to source DDN products from Penguin Computing, including the SFA storage platforms, the GridScaler and ExaScaler parallel file storage systems, NAS Scaler,  DDN’s enterprise scale-out NAS platform, and WOS, DDN’s hyperscale object storage system.

Manage Processesin the Cloud
Kenesto (kenesto.com)  demonstrated its business process automation system publicly for the first time at SolidWorks World 2012.

Kenesto, now in beta testing, is a new, cloud-based system that is designed to allow users in all departments of the manufacturing enterprise to create processes and manage work easily. The company says it “learns” processes as users simply attach data and route it to the next person or organization in the process.

Kenesto runs in any HTML5-capable browser, including mobile devices running Android and iOS.

Database Gets Flexible
ACS Software Inc.’s (acssoftware.com)  AutoEDMS Version 6.5 SR5 engineering data management system has been enhanced with new features, functions and overall improvements. It is designed to manage engineering data and documents with a flexible multi-user database that the company says can manage millions of files.

AutoEDMS includes the AutoEDMS Navigator, an Explorer-style database navigation and file selection tool. It also includes the built-in AutoEDMS Workflow Engine to automate document revision and approval processes.

Triumph Over Data Management
PTC (ptc.com)  has announced that Triumph Motorcycles Ltd., the largest British motorcycle manufacturer, has selected Windchill for product lifecycle management (PLM). The use of Windchill is expected to help Triumph better support business growth and product development needs.

As a long-time user of PTC solutions—Creo Parametric for product design and Pro/INTRALINK solution for data management—Triumph was aware of PTC’s technology and capabilities. According to PTC, Windchill enables all product development parties to instantly access all necessary data.

Improve Engineering Collaboration
Synergis Software’s (SynergisSoftware.com)  Adept engineering data management solution is said to deliver advanced vault replication, two classes of web clients, and integration with Microsoft SharePoint. It is designed to improve global enterprise collaboration on engineering projects while providing a unified view of data and documents to all stakeholders. Adept has been integrated with AutoCAD-based applications since 1991 and Autodesk Inventor since 2001. It has been a SolidWorks Gold Certified PDM Product since 2003 and is tightly integrated with MicroStation. Most recently, the company announced its designation as an Autodesk Platinum Tier value-added reseller.

EDM Solution Connectswith AutoCAD
Formtek, Inc.’s (formtek.com),Engineering Data Management (EDM) solution for Alfresco includes a Connector for AutoCAD. It works in conjunction with the Formtek EDM Module for Alfresco, and allows users to interact with the Alfresco content repository directly from within the AutoCAD application. Together, Formtek says these products provide a pre-packaged,  installation-ready, minimal services solution for secure, enterprise engineering document and drawing management and collaboration on the Alfresco Open Content Platform.

Simulation AnalyticsTool Released
Tecplot, Inc. (tecplot.com/chorus)has released the 2012 version of Tecplot Chorus, the company’s simulation analytics tool. It is said to offer improved data loader support, case management, and advance data extraction features.

Tecplot Chorus is designed to enable engineers to manage computational fluid dynamics (CFD) projects by bringing together results from simulation cases, derived quantities,  and plot images in a single environment. The company says an engineer using Tecplot Chorus can evaluate overall system performance and visually compare tens, hundreds, or thousands of simulation cases without writing scripts. It also allows them to analyze a single parameter over the entire project both visually and quantitatively. It pre-computes plots, making downstream analysis faster.

Tecplot Chorus is available on 64-bit versions of Windows 7, Vista, and XP, 64-bit Linux platforms,  and can interface with SQL databases stored locally or on a server.