Design is the backbone of your company. Don't let software and network chaos prevent collaboration.

This $40 billion automotive products manufacturer relies on more than 1,000 design engineers in 52 workgroups. Unfortunately, there are almost as many design systems as there are teams. To improve knowledge-sharing and to save on hardware and software purchases, the company is consolidating onto a single, Web-based platform.

This hypothetical 10-month project cost approximately $13.3 million and included server and workstation upgrades as well as the purchase of a 4.3-terabyte storage appliance. The final product provides a collaboration and project management framework for design, modeling/simulation and design review activities. It connects to other visualization tools within the company as well as to the company's supplier extranets.

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