Impact Enterprise - Multi-site database support for Impact

Much of the success of Impact is due to having an infrastructure built on an industry standard, database-driven, platform.  For many years this fully integrated environment has successfully provided packaging manufacturers with company-wide access to a continually expanding portfolio of drawings and associated information.

As companies expand, the need to extend this access across multiple locations becomes increasingly desirable.  Until now, issues relating to poor network performance, amongst other things, have made such a configuration impractical.

However, by harnessing the latest in cloud-based, service-oriented technology, Impact Enterprise is able to offer all the flexibility and performance benefits of an on-site database, whilst facilitating the use of a common database that allows structural designers to share drawings regardless of where they are located.

Impact Enterprise is integrated into the intuitive Impact Browser and enables any authorised individual to perform enterprise-wide drawing searches with ease.  Re-using existing designs removes the need to rework projects unnecessarily, saving valuable time and money in the process.

Once a structural designer completes work on a project it is simultaneously copied into the local database and a centralised cloud database.  This secures the automatic backup of all projects and facilitates the streamlined integration of Impact with web-based products such as WEBcnx.

Impact Enterprise is powered by a series of dedicated services which provide queuing, distribution, and deployment of items across an enterprise.  These services are designed to provide optimum performance, scalability and fault tolerance, and if your network is unavailable for any length of time they will automatically kick-in the minute it is back up and running.

The centralised management of Impact settings significantly reduces the amount of time structural designers and administrators spend on the deployment of new or modified settings.  With Impact Enterprise an administrator can easily maintain the consistency of Impact settings across an entire organisation from a central location, and in doing so facilitate the use of company-specific symbols, drawing specifications, design standards, design components, and master tool settings.  New or modified settings will be simultaneously deployed to site databases to ensure that the most up-to-date versions are always available to everyone who needs them.

Features and benefits:

• Integrated support for multiple site Impact databases across an enterprise.
• Enterprise wide project searching and browsing.
• Automated and centralised management of Impact settings.
• Automatic publishing of finished projects to a centralised database.
• Site databases that ensure performance, reliability and tolerance to network outages.
• Secure and reliable site-to-central communications.
• Remote administration and support.
• Multiple site support.