The core technical features of Share-A-space can be divided into Collaboration features and Core feature
COLLABORATION FEATURES
Access Control Implements secure collaboration. In addition to compliance with identity systems it manages IPR and security on information object level by user organization and role The definition and management of users and organisations and the read, write and update rights they have to their own information and the information used by their partners.
Interfaces & Reporting Available import and export capabilities to number of bespoke (Microsoft Excel, proprietary csv formats) and standard formats (ISO 10303-239, IS0 10303-233, ISO 10303-214, PDM Schema, 1388-2B, S1000D) including outputs to tailored text and HTML reports. The software development environment to create bespoke interfaces for integrating with enterprise systems such ERP, PDM and Asset Management systems.
Data Consolidation & Integration The comprehensive business rule definition and lifecycle event engine needed to integrate data from multiple sources across the scope of collaboration. Consolidation of data on import preserving data integrity and data primacy.
Task Orchestration The orchestration of tasks required to quality check, translate and import data to Share-A-space™.
Desktop Customisation The software development environment and interface definition needed for systems integrators or end users to create customised user interfaces.
Visualization Lightweight visualisation via 3rd party plugins of mechanical and architectural CAD files and the relationship of the elements being visualised to their defining product structure.
Enterprise Integration Integration into Enterprise Services Bus, Workflow engines and portals such as SharePoint via webservices.
Event management The creation and management of automatic messages arising from update or review of the through-life product. The messages can in turn be used to trigger a human or automated response and further augment the in-built information auditing within the software.
CORE FEATURES
Through Life Product Repository The database and related distributed file store and cache used to store and manage through life product information. The internal database schema is based on the ISO 10303 (i.e. ISO 10303-214 Automotive Design, ISO 10303-239 Product Life Cycle Support and ISO 10303-233 System Engineering) and manages all aspects of product information such as requirements, analysis, design parts, engineering change, serialised parts and product support in an extensible manner. Furthermore the repository manages the relationships between the different lifecycle events and their effectivity allowing user access to the past, present and predicted through life breakdown of the product.
Document Management The identification and categorization of logical documents and the relationship and access to the digital files that make up their content. There is no restriction on the type of digital content. Typical documents include CAD files, text based documents such as Microsoft Office, pictures, source code or analysis results.
Navigation & Query With a minimum of installation and configuration, users can browse and search the whole product lifecycle data, subject to their access rights.
Audit Trail capabilities The historical data logged including detailing who has done what to which aspect of the through life product providing a data trail that is accessible at any time.
Microsoft® Technology The core of Share-A-space™ is based on a complete Microsoft® stack of technologies with Windows Server, SQL Server and Internet Information Server as the basis.
Efficient storage & retrieval Efficient read and write to the database using parallel queries.
Scalability Flexible architecture that scales in application layers
