DDM supports not only its own client application, but also integrates into the majority of CAD systems on the market today. You then start to install your client software and, here, things get interesting. Essentially this comes down to needing Microsoft Server 2012. Download the software and the install wizard checks to make sure you have the correct server version and prerequisites in place. DDM’s various interfaces, from the DDM client for data management, search/retrieval and workflow DesignDataManager – Set-up & configurationĭesignDataManager is a client server-based data management system - as such, you begin with the server set-up, then connect the clients to it. So let’s step through the process to give you a flavour. There’s even a 30 day trial - something that is rare in the world of data management. Whereas data management systems are renowned for being overly complex and requiring large amounts of consultancy to set up, DDM has been developed to keep this to the bare minimum and configured in a way that gets you up and running quickly. It’s at this point that you start to get a feel for DDM’s focus on ease of implementation. So let’s take a look at where things are now.

As that expansion of both aspects has continued, the system has also kept up to date with user requirements and its two key tenets - simplicity and affordability - have remained. While that is its heritage, the intervening years have seen the system grow up in terms of increased capability and which systems it works with (namely, all of them).

Creo data management