KollabNet, Inc., is all about increasing manufacturer profitability. The KollabNet Suite of tools enables users to capture and visualize company know-how, capture and manage requirements, predict impact of change, and to provide behavioral links between existing engineering tools. Working with leading large and mid-size manufacturers, KollabNet automates portions of their design-engineering process never before addressed by software.
 

Here are some of the key features of KollabNet that enable it to reduce time to market; increase profitability; and improve innovation:

• Linking. We link letters, words, numbers, dimensions, database entries, and more to KollabNet DesignMaps. This means that objects in applications that are not particularly on speaking terms can influence each other. What did it cost you the last time someone made a change that others didn't find out about until later? With KollabNet, that's gone.

• Requirements capture. Linking makes it easy to do requirements capture. Requirements come in all kinds of documents; by linking them to a DesignMap, we can keep track of them, make sure any changes to them get noticed, make sure they don’t change beyond what they’re supposed to – you get the idea. So that you never have to face a customer who wants to know why you dropped the ball. What's that worth?

• Rationale capture. Keeping track of things is hard. Even those organizations that manage to keep track of what rarely even have a way to keep track of why. Why was a change made? Based on what? When? By whom? KollabNet does, and it’s pretty painless. How much will having those answers, all the time, save you?

• Graphical audit trail. Once you keep track of what, why, when, and who, and you do it in an automatically generated diagram – a DesignMap – why, presto! It’s a graphical audit trail of the whole design process – plus anything else you want to track! Compare that to the cost of documenting your processes for regulatory compliance.

• Impact analysis. “If I make this change, what will be affected? How?” How much would you have paid to have a quick and accurate answer to that question on your last five projects? If you use KollabNet, you get the ability to answer those questions. No extra charge. Predict impact of change instead of just monitoring it.

• Common practice. “The way we do things around here” is seldom documented. Yet it may be your company’s greatest asset, the “secret sauce" that makes you a leader. What happens when somebody leaves? Maybe a lot of the “secret sauce” is gone, too. Maybe you will lose customers, market share. But not if you use KollabNet.

Based on these features, how will your organization benefit? How much will

KollabNet save you in the first month? The first year?