Now you can collaborate the way YOU want - not the way your ERP system wants.

Velitor announces a unique solution to support collaboration in new product development for Engineering and Manufacturing organizations. FlexLink is completely customizable and allows Engineering, Sales, Procurement, Manufacturing, and remote vendors or even customers to come together and solve the problem of getting your products out the door as quick as the customer needs it.

FlexLink, combines the favorable features of robust central coordination and peer-to-peer communication to support creation, sharing and synchronization of structured and semi-structured data for enterprise and inter-enterprise collaborative development.

FlexLink is designed to support enterprise and inter-enterprise communication and collaboration as required in a tiered supply chain.

FlexLink provides the benefits of central server based security, change management and transaction control without its limitations; all the benefits of peer-to-peer collaboration without its reliability and quality of service issues, and extensive support for coordinating systems-based manufacturing and design.

The user interface leverages the familiarity of MS Explorer, MS Excel and e-mail. The collaborative activity can be authored directly or can be imported from other systems such as SAP, i2, and MS Project. FlexLink can be managed from within any e-mail tool such as Microsoft Outlook, requiring minimal user training.
FlexLinks distributed architecture allows a personalized view of the data for each collaborator. They can maintain relationship specific rules and enterprise wide rules. The rules allow for outgoing and incoming message translation. In this way each collaborator has control over the format and content of the data being exchanged without compromising the data.

Benefits:
- Turns ad-hoc exchange and decision making into a competitive advantage
- Visibility of the process as it unfolds gives a real-time view to the current state of collaboration and its impact on underlying business processes
- Capturing collaborative lifecycle enables future reuse of the process allows for business process improvement
- Linking of collaborative activities to business processes shows resource utilization and other Key Performance Indicators across the enterprise

Demo CDs are available. Contact:
dharnadek@velitor.com