Vault Product Line

Over the years I have spent a lot of time with most of the Autodesk Manufacturing products. About 7 to 8 months ago, I took a new job where I didn't have access to all of the software that I did before. I recently got the Vault Manufacturing product and I am planning to do a couple blog posts a month or more. I figured this would be a good place to start with a comparison of the 4 different vault products that are now available. I will be using Vault Manufacturing in all of my posts, however from the comparison matrix below you can see that Vault Manufacturing has everything that all of the other products have.

If you have any questions feel free to email me at robert.stein@zephyrtechnologies.com

Capabilities	Autodesk Vault	Autodesk Vault Workgroup	Autodesk Vault Collaboration	Autodesk Vault Manufacturing
Best in class integration with Autodesk Design Software	X	X	X	X
Tools to manage your Microsoft Office documents	X	X	X	X
Quick and simple searching	X	X	X	X
Understand the impact of change with "where used" analysis	X	X	X	X
Concurrent design with check-in / check-out of data	X	X	X	X
Sorting and filtering tools to improve data organization	X	X	X	X
Interactive file preview with Autodesk Design Review	X	X	X	X
Simple administration and configuration	X	X	X	X
User, group, and role administration	X	X	X	X
Specialized copy tools to optimize design data reuse	X	X	X	X
Intelligent maintenance tools like 'rename' and 'move file'	X	X	X	X
Version tracking of files for design concept exploration	X	X	X	X
Manage any windows file format, including raster formats	X	X	X	X
Vault Autoloader for simple data loading	X	X	X	X
Access for team members without CAD		X	X	X
Revision management for files		X	X	X
Utilities to batch plot design data		X	X	X
Configurable security and access control		X	X	X
Custom properties to capture non-drawing attributes		X	X	X
Property policies to enforce company standards		X	X	X
Automatic file naming		X	X	X
Manage security of design files throughout their lifecycle		X	X	X
Graphically report and analyze your design data			X	X
Added backup tools to minimize maintenance downtime			X	X
Windows authentication to ease administration			X	X
Web client for read only access to vaulted data			X	X
Publish data to Microsoft Sharepoint			X	X
Offload visualization publishing using the job server			X	X
Connect workgroups distributed across multiple sites			X	X
Automated engineering change management process				X
Revision management for items				X
Bill of Material management, view, edit, and compare				X
Automatic item numbering				X
Markup and redline visualization files				X
Design status watermarking on visualization files				X
Coexist and exchange data with enterprise business systems				X