PDM-WORKS or DBWORKS ??

We are in the same boat and evaluating both packages also. I would suggest that your company evaluate their needs, work flow, future requirements before pulling the trigger. PDM may be adequate for them today, but DB may have greater potential for an expanding company, integration with other packages (MRP/ERP) via SQL and allowing the file structure to be AS IS for other personal to access.

Keith

We looked at both of these as well, we also went to a PDMWorks presentation at the local Solidworks 2004 launch.

PDMWorks is a file manager just like Windows Explorer, very limited, DBWorks is a true database engine.

It was also obvious at the PDMWorks presentation I went to that there would not be any significant developement of the project that would step on the toes of Smarteam, so this sytem will always be very limited.

What is the cost comparison for both? We have PDMWorks but are thinking of looking elsewhere as PDMworks doesn't all of our needs.

TIA Dennis

Depends on the number of seats of DB and also requires a server with SQL and it's licenses for those seats. We're presently looking at 4 enterprise and

4 standalone seats and the difference is ~15K vs. PDM.

Dear All,

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Hi,

What is the cost per seat?

Marc

Dear Marc

The apprx costs are as follows; DDM Office £600.00 or $/?900.00 DDM Pro £1000.00 or $/?1500.00 (includes DDM Office) DDM Web Server £2250.00 or $/?3375.00 (unlimited Read/Only users) DDM Remote Inteligent File Servers £1800.00 or $/?2700.00 per site

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Look forward to hearing from you again.

Thanks.

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