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1-Visitor
May 15, 2015
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Windchill Document Manager vs Sharepoint

  • May 15, 2015
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Hello

is there any one who has evaluated Sharepoint vs Windchill for document management for a pure capability point of view.

eg. Windchill can pass parameters directly into Word, I was told by a sharepoint consultant this is not possible.

Same thing with document structure.

I like to call sharepoint a file manager or an enhanced hard drive. Nonetheless, I have hard time to get Sharepoint users to accept that Windchill is easier, simplier more powerful.

Sometimes the argument goes to. "I do not need to buy new licences for new users for Sharepoint but I would need to for Windchill, so even if there are advantages it is not worth the cost"....

Is there anyone who has close a Sharepoint site to migrate to Windchill ? What was the argument for this ?

I am trying to sell Windchill has something much more than just supporting engineering. Managing documentation is an activity for all departments and functions. But sales, marketing, quality are happy with their own "developed" systems. See the picture ?

Any feedback welcome. Thank you

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1-Visitor
September 11, 2015

โ€Œsounds like it was a stupid question to ask

1-Visitor
December 12, 2016

HI,

Did you have any joy in evaluating sharepoint versus Windchill.

We currently have the same question.

Ant

12-Amethyst
December 12, 2016

Hello Antony,

I would not say that it was a very scientific and structure evaluation but yes.

The company I worked for (I changed a few months ago) had Office 365 and so IT wanted to use it, when I joined there were talked about using it for product documentation and some users started to upload files there.

Basically, what I have demonstrated is that Office 365 was just a enhanced office files manager. It does not support items, BOM, CAD etc...

Some level of collaboration is possible but really the default interface is very poor.

The bottom line was that the decision was made that all product related information would go to Windchill.

I can develop further if you want.

Best regards