Inforbix - Product Data Applications
Inforbix product data application for engineering and manufacturing
Google has changed both our expectations and the way we do thing online. Today, we expect information on the internet to be instantly available when we want it. Searching for the latest activities of Lady Gaga, Olympic medal standings, or most anything else on the internet has never been easier. However, in the last ten [...]
Reusing product data contained in CAD file is a common task performed by engineers in manufacturing companies. For many people, however, finding and accessing CAD files from multiple locations and sources within their company is a time consuming process. The process usually involves searching through many folders and directories on different file servers, asking people [...]
Let’s talk today about search and enterprise. Search has come a long way from being a well known feature in many applications and OSs to something different: getting access to information. Internet search engines pioneered the vision of “information access” and Google turned search into a verb: “Google it”. So, when it comes to accessing information on [...]
3D is an important and practical part of the engineering software experience. Despite some people maintaining that “2D always works”, I believe 3D View’ing independent of a CAD system is an important requirement more people expect nowadays. This is a requirement many of our users have requested from Inforbix early days. In response, Inforbix has [...]
I’m willing to bet that finding duplicate data in your company is a pain. Say you want to find duplicate or similar files for a particular CAD drawing or assembly, no matter where they are located in your company, how would you go about it? Or say you want to confirm that no duplicate or [...]
We promised to continuously deliver new apps to help you get more out of your product data . Today, I’m going to share a sneak preview of an app that will soon be available. Have a look at a recent blog post I wrote about finding file duplicates, New Inforbix app on the horizon will help find duplicates [...]
The amount of information is growing, everywhere. Users demand the right information at the right moment in time because they are very busy and can barely afford spending any time searching for it. Consumer technologies are driving peoples expectations with regards to how data is accessed. However, the task of accessing the right data at [...]
At Inforbix we continue to develop apps that help you to get your data job and tasks done. Many engineers tell us that finding duplicate or similar data is a painful and time consuming task. Moreover, identifying duplicate or similar content within many files is part of an engineers day to day task. So we’ve [...]
Over the past few weeks we’ve noticed an increase in the number and types of searches our users are performing using Inforbix. Some of our users have called us with some great questions regarding how to optimize their search results. Keep in mind that in some cases, we’re talking about searches that involve several hundred [...]
Since as long as I can remember folders have been the most convenient way for people to keep track of their data on computers. The thing about data is that there’s always more of it. So we create more folders. But data is complicated. So we invent categories and sub-categories of folders to help keep [...]