Bring Organizational Structure to Your Microsoft Office Documents

Microsoft Office is a key set of tools used during all stages of the product lifecycle for a myriad purposes. Many documents contain critical information which needs to be shared and forms part of the product record. However, typically these documents are disconnected from the product record, get lost in shared folders and accidentally deleted from hard drives.

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Bring Order to Chaos

Office Connector extends the benefits of PLM to Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook. Users can manage documents while working within the familiar, easy to use Microsoft environment. Additionally, Office Connector provides administrators with capabilities for document control, security, naming, templates and more.

Key Features

Document lifecycle status management, versioning and user access control
Document classification based on document type
Automatic document numbering and naming
Document linking to related items like parts and projects
Bi-directional property mapping between Aras and inside document text
Viewables automatically created for Visual Collaboration

Document Management Using Microsoft Office Connector

Watch a demonstration of the business requirements for document management, how Aras Office Connector supports those requirements, and also see some customer examples of Office Connector in action.

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Benefits

Easy access across the enterprise to critical documents reduces unnecessary errors and delays
Supports global product development and supply chain collaboration strategies
User authentication and access management increases control over critical intellectual property
Ability to include Office documents in all PLM processes increases engineering efficiencies
Ease of use ensures rapid adoption

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