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cadett ELSA is a document management system in itself, so why should it be integrated with another one, the Autodesk Vault? There might be more than one answer to that question. Below, you will find a list of a few major features that the integration offers, when compared to a situation without it.

 

•Autodesk Vault is a general document management system. Even if cadett ELSA is able to manage files from other programs than cadett ELSA, like Word and Excel, it is definitely optimised for electrical design, and other schematics, even when viewed upon in its role as a document manager. Autodesk Vault offers better possibilities to integrate all kinds of documents in one system.

 

•cadett ELSA has integrated revision management features that are very powerful for electrical design. The revision and version management of Autodesk Vault is also powerful, but with a completely different focus. By integrating with Autodesk Vault, a synchronisation between the two systems is accomplished, which enables the utilisation of a concurrent use of the most powerful features of both systems.

 

•Using one single document management system, with one single document format, is in many cases the best possible way of making the content of all kinds of documents available for the entire organisation. In most cases, PDF is chosen as that common format.

 

•Securing source data is of course of great importance. Ordinary backup routines are often used to accomplish this. However, a document management system focused on documents and source data for those documents, makes it easier and more straight forward to access previous versions of files and documents, than with any backup system. A higher level of security can also be reached, by not only saving copies of important information, but also securing it with checksums.

 

In short, the Autodesk Vault integration is a powerful tool for document publishing, revision management, and data security. It is also a powerful tool to integrate electrical design documents with other kinds of documents.