Vuuch Enterprise Social System 4.0

Vuuch 4.0 is socialtechnology software for the way product development teams interact. Vuuch isspecifically designed to foster social interaction on the deliverables requiredto develop and enhance products. Vuuch knows how a product is defined, it knowswhat deliverables, including CAD files, the product consists of and knows whichpeople are connected with which deliverables. Vuuch combines what it knowsabout people, products and the relationships between them in a social platformfor product development.

Features in Vuuch 4.0
Support for SpaceClaim Engineer via a Vuuch plug-in. SpaceClaimenables engineers to design, edit and manipulate CAD models, even if they arenot expert CAD users. The combination of SpaceClaim and Vuuch couples 3Dcommunications with social technology. The Vuuch 4.0 plug-in offers SpaceClaimusers the ability to create and respond to product issues and requirementsusing the Vuuch social system directly from SpaceClaim.

Export toMicrosoft Excel. Users in Vuuch create pages representing aproduct or deliverable. On each Vuuch page, activities that represent tasks,issues and requirements are created. The social system then permits people whohave been invited to participate in the management of those activities andpages. Over time, this institutional knowledge becomes valuable for reporting,analysis and regulatory compliance. Starting with Vuuch 4.0, the entire history of apage, all product pages or sets of pages, along with all related activities, canbe exported to Microsoft Excel to facilitate these uses.

User-interfaceenhancements. Vuuch 4.0 has implemented user-interfaceenhancements online and in the Vuuch plug-ins. In Vuuch 4.0, events - who didwhat and when to the Vuuch activity - can be optionally shown in-line with thecontents of an activity. Events are analogous to status updates in consumersocial networks, but function in Vuuch to allow team members to analyze thesequence and flow of activities in place with the actual content the team isworking on in the social system.

On the Vuuch 4.0 web portal and in the Vuuch plug-ins forMicrosoft Office and CAD systems, a new visualization of replies and activitiesis easier to read and follow than in previous releases. Due dates are shownintelligently with phrases for common time periods. Additional enhancements inthe Vuuch 4.0 web portal include the ability to sort column headers on page andactivity displays, the ability to discover how other users are involved inVuuch content and filtering of activities.

Activity filtering is a powerful way to view information inthe social system that allows a user to see only what concerns him or her atthat moment. Users can filter by deliverable type, time, owner and status.Filtering is also available in the Vuuch product information BOM display,permitting users to see, for example, only red status items from a particularVuuch user from the last two weeks.

New in Vuuch 4.0is an enhancement to the Vuuch email notification service that now shows thereal name and email address of the user who submitted an update to the socialsystem.

Mobile devicesupport. Vuuch 4.0 now supports Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod touchdevices via the Safari browser included on these devices. Vuuch users can nowlogin to Vuuch from wherever they might be, allowing issues and tasks to beresolved and permitting the Vuuch social system to become integrated into theproduct development process.

Pricing, availabilityand supported systems
Vuuch is available as an annual subscription. Users who create Vuuch pagesrequire a paid license. Other users may access those pages and update thosepages without a paid license. Introductory pricing is $250 per year per Vuuch pagecreation license.

Vuuch 4.0 is delivered as a service, so there is noinstallation or setup needed. The Vuuch 4.0 web application supports majorbrowsers, including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and GoogleChrome. Optional Vuuch add-ins allow team members to access the Vuuchenterprise social system directly from within Microsoft Office 2007,SpaceClaim, SolidWorks, Autodesk AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor and Pro/ENGINEER.