kConcurrent Enables Controlled Management

Engineering and construction plans, as well as many other document typescan often lead to delays in project completion and spiraling costs.

Engineering and construction plans, as well as many other document types, increasingly need to be accessed by several parties in parallel, which can often lead to delays in project completion and spiraling costs.

By enabling a concurrent engineering process to take place, McLaren's kConcurrent application helps simplify complex document management processes.

kConcurrent was developed from customer demands for multiple parallel authoring of drawings and documents.

This new application accelerates project management and completion, saving time, reducing cost and effort, as well as delivering a faster ROI on complex projects.

Often several parties will be working on different projects but will need access to the same drawings and documents.

Using kConcurrent each project makes a copy of the required drawings and documents, based upon a predefined project policy template, and works on that copy.

The template details relevant project information, such as required attribute information, as well as a full audit history of accessed documentation.

Once complete, the first project merges back into the master documents and a new revision is created that can then be approved and released as the new master document.

As subsequent parties request project copies, email notification is sent to the relevant responsible person(s) to highlight that a new project copy of the document is being accessed elsewhere.

When subsequent drawings are re-submitted, kConcurrent recognizes whether the master document that was used by this project copy has subsequently been revised and hence whether or not a manual check is required before the merge process can be completed.

David Parry, Chief Technical Officer at McLaren, commented: "Time is money in any industry and finding a solution that could deliver a more consistent approach to managing parallel project work is of critical importance to the companies we are talking to.

kConcurrent delivers all of the mechanisms needed to manage this process in a manner that is compliant with the legal and auditing requirements that also impact business practice today." About kConcurrent and kVisia Industry Process Server kConcurrent is a kVisia Solution Enabling Tool, that works with the kVisia Industry Process Server to provide users with: * Predefined policy templates * Configurable Project Policy attributes, such as Vendor ID and Cost Code * Email notification for improved tracking of events * Full audit capabilities to ensure that all changes can be mapped between the master and project copies * Pre-defined and custom reporting capabilities * kVisia CADLink compliant for managing complex CAD files kConcurrent utilizes the underlying technology of the kVisia Industry Process Server to deliver immediate added value to the Documentum platform.

It provides a flexible environment in which business forms, and corresponding business processes and lifecycles, can be configured to allow your organization to build a concurrent management process that meets the specific needs of your business and can be deployed quickly across your virtual enterprise.

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