With DISCUS Connect, you’ll save time and money by collaborating with other departments as well as your suppliers. A more detailed listing of features and benefits appears below:
| DISCUS Connect Feature | Pertinent Business Benefit |
|---|---|
| Centralized server in the cloud or behind your firewall | Ensures that important information is easier to locate, backup, and re-use. |
| Consolidates all requirements and results in a centralized server | Reduces the amount of time spent searching for TDP requirements and FAI results |
| Seamless integration to DISCUS Desktop for saving and restoring | Enables creators of the intelligent TDP to continue to be most efficient in their work |
| Server-based sharing of an Intelligent Technical Data Package | Provides data structure that can be actively shared for multiple downstream operations |
| Web interface to the intelligent Technical Data Package | Reduces the cost to collaborate with suppliers on requirements and results |
| Reports on status across parts, programs, and organizations | Reduces the time to review and disposition supplier submissions |
| Detailed dashboard of key performance indicators | Reduces quality escapes and improves the first pass yield of your suppliers |
| Drill-down of information programs, parts, suppliers, and users | Provides insights into performance for specific issues and ensures corrective action |
| Configurable workflow that tracks and alerts on business events | Ensures that events and business actions are addressed in a timely manners |
| Advanced reporting and business intelligence | Improved support for customer, industry, and internal audits and certifications |
| Interfaces to more advanced workflow functionality | Ensures that the overall solution integrates into your IT infrastructure |
| Integrations to major ERP part master, bill of materials, orders, etc. | Provides additional efficiency in the creation of the intelligent Tech Data Package |
| Integrations to major PDM drawings and models | Reduces even more, the time and labor to submit inspection data to customers |