Upgrade now to Express Data Manager 4.5™

One of the most important trends in today's business world is the transition from stand-alone systems towards inte-grated, enterprise-wide solutions with full compatibility available through the network. By using EXPRESS Data Manager™, PDM, ERP and Legacy environ-ments can take advantage of the benefits offered by fully integrated solutions.
Implementing the STEP standard in an integrated PDM system, an organization will enable all applications to "talk the same language". This makes it possible to establish a common data warehouse, using an enterprise-wide network, where all technical applications and administrative PDM tools can share the same data. Various users with various applications will be able to process the same data at the same time.

Used world-wide in all industries, EXPRESS Data Manager™ has built up the reputation of providing the most advanced and powerful applications supporting the most demanding data migration projects. With customers like DaimlerChrysler, Lockheed Martin, Airbus, Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems and other Fortune 500 companies EPM have put a new meaning to robustness and functionality.

The need for standards

ISO TC184/SC4 and associated standards organizations have rightfully claimed to provide the solution to the challenges of digital product data. Since 1994, a series of user-driven, computer-sensible, interoperable standards have been published to make information independent of the many proprietary applications used in industry value chains and product life cycles, and to enable more reliable inform-ation exchange and sharing at reduced and predictable costs. But even before this date, EXPRESS Data Manager™ has been used by customers imple-menting this emerging industrial IT paradigm. Continuous development and improve-ments to meet customer requirements have now lead to EXPRESS Data Manager™, version 4.5, being launched as a universal system for data exchange, sharing, and integration.

EXPRESS Data Manager™ 4.5 will enable you:

• To take a great leap towards cost efficient and reliable use of IT in your organization!
• To really take the ownership of your product data by a single data source based on standards!
• To apply a unified methodology and a set of products that take you from concept to solution!

EXPRESS Data Manager™ 4.5 is:

• A powerful object-oriented database management system capable of being your single source of information.
• A web enabler due to its thin-client technology. Complete applications written in EXPRESS and EXPRESS-X are fully executed by the EDM-expressVM™ (Virtual Machine) within the database. These applications are controlled through local EDMinterface™ calls.
• A unified methodology for product data solutions. All functionality of the system is configured by EXPRESS and EXPRESS-X schemas, which are the ISO and industry standards for information requirement specifications.
• An EXPRESS-G modeling environment. Use EDMvisual-Express™ to design your data models and to publish them, for example on the web.
• A Rule Engine. Define your corporate knowledge by constraining information models using the rules capabilities of EXPRESS and EXPRESS-X.
• n A standards solution in its support for EXPRESS (all statements, expressions, built-in functions and procedures), Part 21, and SDAI.

New in EXPRESS Data Manager™ 4.5

• EXPRESS-X implementation has been extended - among others with full exception handling - to be the one built-in database control language (including EXPRESS) for EXPRESS Data Manager™ 4.5. It provides you with functionality and performance for building entire applications on top of your information models at reduced costs for programming and maintenance. With the one language for modeling, storage, and use of information models, you avoid technology compat-ibility problems.
• The Business Object layer of EXPRESS Data Manager™ 4.5 hides the complexity of an underlying data model and adds application specific function-ality. The Business Object defines views and methods for the underlying database by means of the powerful EXPRESS based Query and Update Language in EXPRESS Data Manager™ 4.5. Business Objects are created on the server instead of locally, enabling thin clients and reducing network traffic. Business Objects tailor the same underlying information to the needs of the many disparate applications of data.
• The Query and Update Language of EXPRESS Data Manager™ 4.5 is using EXPRESS-X. Any EXPRESS-X logical expression can be passed to a query as a parameter. This functionality is fully comparable to SQL.

For more information:
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