Rumour about SW buying Conisio. 3

[GoWithTheFlo]

Today at my job I heard a rumour about SolidWorks buying Conisio. (For those of you that don't know, Conisio is a program that lets you organize files and projects like PDM).

Anyways, I was wondering if anyone knew for sure or could confirm the rumour.

It could be a good thing as I have heard that Conisio is more powerful than PDM and also a lot more user-friendly. I have not tried it though. Are there any happy (or unhappy) Conisio users out there?

Salutations.

 

[J-C]

I think this "Enterprise" edition is a Javelin thing. If you look closly, it's basically, SolidWorks Professional with Conisio and a program called "PropertyLinks" which is a Javelin developed add-in.

So this doesn't look like it's from Solidworks.

Javelin Technologies provides a complete 3D CAD solution for organizations that need to manage and automate product design data.

SolidWorks Enterprise Edition provides you with a seat of SolidWorks Office Professional plus advanced PDM, custom property management and design automation. Below is a list of the products included with the enterprise edition:


Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2006 SP4.0 on WinXP SP2

 

[RMacEwen]

I am the Product Manager at Javelin Technologies for data management products.

The "SolidWorks Enterprise Edition" is in fact a Javelin bundle that we came up with to package up a few things that we think are very useful to a company that wants to really get organized. Currently we price that bundle the same as SolidWorks Premium at the moment just to give you an idea.

While I won't say what SolidWorks plans are for PDMWorks and Conisio are at the moment I can tell you that we at Javelin strongly feel that Conisio is the right choice for a lot of companies. We have had a lot of success with the product. We even use it ourselves to manage our documents. It's easy and packed full of data management goodness.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

RMacEwen ... welcome to the forum. It's good to see someone from Javelin here. I hope you will post often.

Would you care to offer advice for the OP over in the Bad experience with Conisio thread559-154572


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[pdybeck]

Here is some more info...

http://www.solidworks.com/pages/news/viewrelease.html?prid=367

 

[J-C]

Welll..there's the final confirmation.

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2006 SP4.0 on WinXP SP2

 

[pdybeck]

Not much info on how it integrates with current seats of PDMWorks (if it does), but it seems (emphasis on seems) there will be an upgrade path from PDMWorks to PDMWorks Enterprise.

 

[J-C]

My guess at this point is not at all. I'd expect that over the next year that they will program in a migration option to go from PDM/works workgroup to Pdm/Works Enterprise.

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2006 SP4.0 on WinXP SP2

 

[ng89]

Here's a little more info from SolidWorks:

http://www.solidworks.com/pages/products/solutions/PDMWorks_Enterprise.html

If you click on the data sheet, the 2nd and 3rd pictures are directly from traditional Conisio. Don't know how long it will be before they start selling this commercially, but it seems like every week or two they are getting more info out about it. I am assuming they a shooting for a pretty aggressive schedule.