3DEXPERIENCE Content Explorer for Faster Product Data Access
Introduction
3DExperience Content Explorer provides the unified web-based view of your files and data. By bringing the familiar look and feel of Windows Explorer into 3DEXPERIENCE it provides a logical and intuitive way to manage your data and large product portfolios. With advanced search and organization features it enables the user to find and navigate to the right data, helping to improve general platform usability for all users, reducing search and navigation time and providing a consistent method to access and organize all product data.
Key Components of Content Explorer
- Collaborative spaces: The collaborative space is where content is stored for sharing and management across the extended enterprise.
- Bookmark folders: Logical folders that help organize files using business or technical specific organization.
- Lifecycle & Collaboration tools: Tools to manage the maturity of files as well as supporting the collaboration process.
- Custom filters/views: Support for individual views and filters to help get to the right data quickly.
How Content Explorer Benefits different departments
Content explorer is a benefit across the enterprise and is not limited to engineering roles
only.
- Engineering: Helps manage file structures and to help support and speed up day today data management tasks.
- Sales: Quick access to customer and product data without having to navigate complex file structures.
- Operations and manufacturing: Quick access to relevant planning and manufacturing data.
- Customer Support: Quick access to files and data relating to a specific product to help diagnose and respond to a customer’s request.
Business Benefits of Content Explorer
Implementing content explorer will bring measurable benefits to your product lifecycle by:
- Improving data search and access – Integrated within SOLIDWORKS (IMG:2)
- Enabling faster and more accurate file identification
- Simplifying the navigation by using an intuitive UI layout
- Improving cross functional collaboration and visibility across data
- Improving file maturity and change management processes
- Improving administrative search and management time
Conclusion
Content Explorer helps achieve this by providing a web based intuitive starting point for accessing and organizing product portfolios and files across the enterprise. It helps improve discoverability of data and provides a faster access to the products and data within the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, enabling better productivity and collaboration across the extended enterprise.
