Today's products are becoming increasingly more complex. The collision between different disciplines multiple suppliers, manufacturers and stakeholders can make running your business and keeping on top of everything a real nightmare. But it doesn't have to be that way. Let me introduce you to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and give you six key reasons why you should adopt it for your business. The 3DEXPERIENCE platform contains applications and solutions for every aspect of your company, from CAD to collaboration to advanced simulation and process planning. Now, family sound quite intimidating, but the platform is modular, meaning that you can just pick and choose the functions you need and build them up over time. That means from your familiar workflow, you can expand directly into sub-D Modelling, CAM manufacturing and beyond, even into complete engineering change and supply chain management. But for SOLIDWORKS users, there are several key benefits that can be realized straight away. So let's look at six reasons why you should consider using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to manage your data as a SOLIDWORKS user. The 3DEXPERIENCE platform securely stores and manages all of your data with access available from any device at any time. Maybe you have some aging servers hosting critical data or are worried about cyber-attackers getting access to improperly protected information. Well, keep those worries away. As with the 3DEXPERIENCE, your data is backed up and protected an infrastructure that's fully compliant to ISO data security standards. This means that you don't have to worry about your hardware going out of date any more. The 3DEXPERIENCE platform is fully integrated into many common CAD packages, including SOLIDWORKS. You can manage revisions, lifecycles, change actions, tasks and a whole lot more right from your familiar SOLIDWORKS task pane. The platform also includes integration from Microsoft Office, so you can still manage and preview office documents to extend into the management of your non-CAD data as well. Remember that bright idea that you just can't wait to share? Or perhaps you need to log an issue urgently for the team to see. The 3DEXPERIENCE platform streamlines collaboration and communication, providing you with the fastest and most robust way to share updates that are linked directly to the relevant data. You can post mockups of designs for review, share files with external suppliers, and even invite an external party to help co-design with you. Working with the platform saves time and helps teams to work efficiently. You can say goodbye to the headache of tracking down messages across teams, slack and long email chains, as thanks to the connected nature of the platform, everything is stored in one place. The communication tools on the platform are immediately familiar. You can share posts in team communities and have private conversations, video calls, screen shares and host virtual meetings. Regardless of how you communicate. The platform provides you with the tools to capture ideas, meeting notes, change actions and tasks, and everything you capture is traceable, connected to the right files and stored in the same place. And this approach of tying collaboration closely with your working files brings us nicely onto our next reason. Traceability. Within the platform, we often speak of the concept of a digital thread. This is the idea that as you create what appear to be disconnected discrete pieces of data like CAD models, markups, issues or change actions. The platform creates connections for you, so you can always trace your way along the thread in any direction with a digital thread that winds its way through every aspect of your projects. You can track approvals and enforce strict governance on your data to make sure the right people see the right data at the right time. The platform has powerful search tools to help you find your data. Just like any strong data management system. You can search by names, descriptions, power numbers and more. You can even save common searches. The platform expands on this ability by using tags to filter and visualize your data. You can even make graphical use of tags for more intuitive analysis, such as visualizing the proportion of released files against in work files. In this design, as a SOLIDWORKS user, managing your CAD data is the priority. But from a business standpoint, it's just one piece of the puzzle. Documentation and complex simulations can all be managed in the platform alongside the ability to define product requirements and maintain live connections to any code for seamless integration into bombs. Whatever your business needs are, the platform can manage them with roles in the application. More importantly, you can choose when, if and how to stack those additional roles to enhance your platform experience. The platform evolves and adapts as you and your business grow. So there you have it. The top six things that you need to know about the 3DEXPERIENCE platform We can not only implement the 3DEXPERIENCE platform but support you and your users throughout your design journey with our expert technical support team helping to give you a smooth experience and keep your projects on track. To learn more, get in touch with us via the details on screen and we'll have one of our 3DEXPERIENCE consultants discuss your specific requirements with you in more detail.