Attention Autodesk Vault administrators, consultants, power users, and fans. New documentation is available that outlines best practices for upgrading Autodesk Vault. An F.A.Q. along with a white paper on the recommended procedures are all included on the Autodesk Vault Wiki site.
Details on upgrading Autodesk Vault can be found on our Wiki http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/Vault/enu/Help/Help/0206-Autodesk206/0261-Upgradin261
Special thanks to Ross, Irvin, Martin, and Sara. Nice work!
On the theme of new features for the Vault 2012 products, a significant enhancement has been made to user workflows. While you are working within Inventor or AutoCAD based product in a Connected Workgroup (Full Replication) environment, you can request ownership without leaving the application.
Within the add-in, ownership can be requested for the workgroup you are logged into. Users can request, extend, or release ownership of the files you currently have open in the CAD application. This tight integration allows users to remain within their CAD package, saving time, and streamlining workflows.
-Brian Schanen
The next new feature set to discuss is an enhancement to Autodesk Vault Collaboration 2001 and Professional (formerly known as Vault Manufacturing) is full Replication. This is the next step up from our existing file store replication available today.
Autodesk Vault Collaboration and Professional 2011 software introduce an enhanced multi-site feature set leveraging both file caching as well as Vault database replication to help customers connect their workgroups globally. The full replication solution has been designed to overcome challenging latency and bandwidth issues often experienced when connecting workgroups across continents. The direct result provides each workgroup site with a high performing experience as the Vault data because provided to them locally.
The full replication solution offers a scalable approach to enabling workgroups worldwide. Smaller offices may begin using file caching to reduce the investment costs required to connect the workgroup. Vault allows companies to evaluate the business demands on each office to determine if full replication is required to provide higher performance in order to overcome latency. As Vault traffic increases at a particular site, the site can be brought online with fully replicated server, allowing the team to gain ROI based on user productivity and accelerated project delivery.
Vault Collaboration and Professional allow companies to aggregate data globally without concern for conflicting information. Each workgroup creates and owns their data. Other sites will receive the data in a read only fashion and are able to consume and use the data. If modifications are required, the other locations simply request ownership of the data and can then check the data in and out as needed locally. All data is synchronized between all sites per the replication configuration, keeping all locations up to date with the latest design data.
Often many locations need light amounts of data from the Vault. The replication solution found within Vault Collaboration and Vault Professional now allows administrators to configure folder based replication. Vault administrators may configure file caching based on folders per site. This allows locations that are only working on a single project to support a local file cache for the related project files. This reduces the amount of file storage demands at locations that may have limited IT support or limited disk space.
Next, we’ll take a look at customer-driven enhancements directly focused on improving usability and increasing productivity.
-Brian Schanen
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