DataWorks Corporation is a leading supplier of software solutions for mid-range manufacturers.  The company's products feature advanced ERP system functionality combined with open-system technologies, including client-server architecture, relational database and easy-to-use, Windows-based graphical user interfaces.
 

Product Info

Avanté

Benefits

Advanced Technologies: Avanté is an advanced, object-oriented solution for mid-size manufacturers that’s extremely powerful, yet easy to use and
customize. Avanté’s features are robust including: Windows Graphical User Interface (GUI), client-server architecture, advanced object-oriented
application environment embedded workflow, web-enablement, data warehousing, data mining, full-service customer service, multiplant, EIS, EDI,
and bar code/data collection.

Object-Oriented Application Environment: This technology embraces authentic GUI features and standards. Being object-oriented makes system
navigation significantly easier, while presenting a more logical presentation of data.

SmartLinks: SmartLinks helps users access, organize and analyze information. You can link your DataWorks information system to Microsoft Word
or to Excel. You can also view video footage, photos, drawings and documents from any point in your facility, or manage a customer contact
database.

SmartTools: With DataWorks SmartTools, data from your previous system(s) can be readily converted to the new system without loss of information
or disruption of daily business processes.

SmartForms: SmartForms makes pre-printed business forms by storing them electronically including fonts and logos.

SmartTrack: DataWorks offers guaranteed low cost of implementation.

Why Customers Need Avanté

Avanté helps mid-range manufacturers meet requirements such as small IS departments, limited budgets, robust functionality and rapid deployment.
Avanté provides companies a way to meet their business requirements and keep a competitive edge at a cost the can afford. Some of these needs
include:
 

•      Reduced operating costs
•      Continuous quality improvement
•      Industry-specific features and functionality
•      Faster time to market
•      Lowered inventory levels and respective carrying costs
•      Increased inventory turns
•      Highly functional business process templates facilitating workflow
•      Significantly improved customer service
•      Enterprise-wide integration of single and multiplant organizations
•      Advanced technologies that keep DataWorks ERP systems ahead of the company’s internal growth
•      Supply-chain management

Key Features of the Avanté ERP System

Avanté has many features that manufacturers find critical including advanced workflow and supply-chain management capabilities:
 

•      Material Requirements Planning - Planning methodologies to optimize purchase and production requirements
•      Master Production Scheduling - Allows planning production from sales forecasts and sales order demand
•      Engineering Change Control - Prepares, evaluates and approves product changes
•      Product Configurator - Creates materials capable of being processed into a unique bill of materials
•      Estimating - Estimates cost of quoted items
•      Sales Order and Quotations - Keeps control of customer orders at every stage
•      Inventory Management - Comprehensive inventory cost analysis
•      Lot/Serial Control - Documents the content of multilevel lot and serial numbers, tracks where they were used and shipped
•      Multiplant Control - Supports multiple plants autonomously
•      Quality Control - Controls incoming and in-process material inspection
•      Customer and Field Service - Furnishes a central tracking mechanism to input, describe, assign service and communicate problem resolutions
•      Financials - A/R, A/P, G/L, Cost Accounting, Currency Conversion, Fixed Assets, Job Order Control, Payroll/Personnel and Value Added Tax

Impresa for BackOffice

Benefits of Impresa for BackOffice

Enterprise-wide Integration: Impresa for BackOffice incorporates today’s most advanced information technologies to deliver the performance and flexibility required to integrate your global supply chain.  At the same time, Impresa for BackOffice provides the features your mid-size company demands including ease of use, rapid implementation and the low cost of ownership of a standard, open, Microsoft-based information solution.

A New Tier of Client/Server Performance: Our multitier, client/server architecture offers open flexibility, unlimited scaleability and high resource availability.  Business methods and rules can be deployed across multiple applications and servers, which are completely isolated from presentation and database layers.  System performance bottlenecks are automatically and continuously eliminated by dynamically balancing server processing load.  Server-to-database connections are established only as needed.  Scaling the system for increased processing capacity is as simple as adding additional application servers.  Multiple servers also ensure high data availability by supplying redundant services and fail-over protection in case of server failure.

Industry-Standard Tools: Complete client independence allows deployment and development for any client platform without requiring business logic modification.  For Windows-based clients, Powerbuilder is the primary client application development environment.  Powerbuilder’s excellence as a rapid prototyping and development tool has been extended in Impresa for BackOffice to support a large-scale distributed environment, so it delivers the best of Powerbuilder’s features and ease-of-use while eliminating scaleability and performance issues.

Why Customers need Impresa for BackOffice

Impresa for BackOffice’s advanced technologies make it an outstanding global solution for larger mid-range companies.  It’s designed for multisite, multinational operations that require worldwide integration of planning manufacturing and distribution.

Key Features of the Impresa for BackOffice ERP System
Some of Impresa for BackOffice’s features include:
 

• User-definable navigation
• Distributed transaction processing
• Snap-on navigation of best-of-breed applications
• Customizable workflow
• Point-and-click creation of custom-formatted reports
• Internet and intranet enabled
• Windows and HTML-enabled help with wizards
• Seamless integration with desktop applications via InfoLink interfaces
• High performance, multi-tier client/server architecture
• Rapid implementation using SmartTools automated data conversion
• InfoSuite – Offers “best-of-breed” report development as well as workflow and document management tools
• Development Tools – Object-based architecture
• Full Financials including:
• General Ledger – Instant access to accurate, up-to-date information
• Accounts Receivable – Efficient management of cash, collections and customer data
• Fixed Assets – Controls and tracks the physical location of all assets and their associated components
• Accounts Payable – Efficient management of supplier relationships and instant access to accurate payment information

 
 

Benefits of Impresa

Advanced Technologies:  Impresa for MRO is an object-oriented client-server software solution that satisfies the unique business requirements of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) organizations.  This system offers specialized information tools to handle the project orientation, cyclical nature and variable workload of the MRO process.  For example, automated failure prediction gives MRO companies the visibility they need to operate more efficiently and profitably.

Impresa for MRO has easy-to-use Windows Graphical User Interface (GUI) and features such as a rules-based configurator, alerts and zooms, full-service customer service module, quality control components, multiplant, FaxLink, executive information system (EIS),  electronic data interchange (EDI) and bar code/data collection.

Specialized information tools handle the project orientation, cyclical nature and variable workload of the MRO process.  In particular,
Using the Oracle database and Developer/2000 tool set, Impresa for MRO automates all areas of the enterprise, including MRO activities, product design, inventory control, procurement, quality control, manufacturing and finance.
 

Why Customers need Impresa for MRO
Impresa for MRO closely matches the requirements of many organizations in the aerospace and defense industry, including in-house and third-party remanufacturers of airframes, engines, components, landing gear and defense systems.  Other MRO enterprises that repair or remanufacture complex, highly engineered systems such as ships, power plants, oil drilling platforms and motor vehicles also benefit from Impresa’s MRO specific capabilities.
 

Key Features of the Impresa ERP System

• Native Oracle application
• Comprehensive project/contract management, including inventory and accounting by project
• Resource planning using automated failure prediction
• Full support for the stripdown/inspect/repair/rebuild cycle
• On-line repair library
• Predefined and configurable rule-based workscoping tools.
• Automatic generation of overhaul paperwork, repair orders and rebuild orders
• Optional on-line approval capability
• Real-time visibility of actual survey activity
• Direct access to CD-ROM-based manuals, catalogs and drawings
• Material classification
• Lot and serial number tracking
• End-item serial effectivity support
• Rule-based project inventory sharing
• On-line stock condition verification
• Automated service life documentation and analysis
• On-line overhaul history
• Automated generation of off-log, on-log, Form 337 and DD250 documentation
• Access to a full range of hardware platforms
• Graphical User Interface (GUI)
• Internet and intranet support
• OLE-compliant integration with desktop applications
• Object-oriented development tools
• Advanced, multitier client-server architecture for global scaleability
• Complete set of repetitive manufacturing ERP applications available for “mixed-mode” manufacturing enterprises
• Easy-to-use desktop tools
• Rapidly configurable workflow routing

Vista

Benefits of Vista

Advanced Technologies  -- Vista is a world-class desktop manufacturing software system with full Windows/NT functionality.  As a true Windows product, Vista uses all the standard Windows conventions such as point-and-click navigation, pull-down menus and drag-and-drop manipulation of objects. Vista is written in Microsoft’s 32-bit Visual FoxPro, adding more speed and power.  It has a flexible relational database, cost-effective client-server architecture, built-in query language and full EDI support. Vista also supports advanced bar coding and document management technologies.

Visual Scheduling Tools – Visual Scheduling Tools help managers create and execute practical production schedules.  Shop Overview instantly analyzes load versus capacity in all work centers. Vista’s unique drag-and-drop capability lets users rearrange jobs to eliminate bottlenecks. Users are free to explore “what-if” scenarios as they please. Once a scheduling change is made, Vista immediately reschedules the remaining job operations. The instant a schedule is updated, the shop floor employees are alerted.

ShopVision™ for the “Big Picture” – The ShopVision™ module provides up-to-date information from every part of the shop, synthesized into summaries, giving a “big picture” view of shop performance, order backlog, scheduled shipments, cash flow and late jobs.  If a ShopVision display shows an area needs attention, users can instantly dig down deeper into the system to pinpoint and solve the problem.

Why Customers need Vista
Vista helps small job shops quote and cost jobs accurately, schedule easily and quickly react to changing customer demands.  Vista makes it possible to meet the needs of today’s competitive marketplace by increasing quality, productivity and profitability.  Some of these needs include:

• Better managed plant operations
• Higher profits
• Improved customer satisfaction
• Better on-time delivery performance
• Fast, efficient order entry
• Fewer data entry errors
• Quick access to critical, up-to-date information
• Accurate job costing
• Increased throughput
• Higher morale, more skilled work force
• Higher quote hit rate

• Ease-of-use –Drag’n’drop, event-driven routines and point-and-click navigation
• Vista DesignWare -- User-definable screens, reports, and menus
• Estimating/Quoting – Highly integrated, effective way to give accurate quotes quickly
• VisualScheduling™ – Intuitive, graphical tools for planning, scheduling and tracking jobs
• ShopVision™ -- Provides owners and general managers with a top-down view of key business indicators
• Job Production Control – Automates job planning and tracking and analyzes job costs
• Shop Floor Data Collection – VistaTouch Data Collection collects accurate and timely data from shop floor
• Inventory Control – Everything needed to update and maintain raw material stock status and cost, as well as quantities and costs of finished and semi-finished goods.
• Payroll – Processes employees’ paychecks and provides necessary company and governmental reporting
• General Ledger – Processes and posts entries created by the Vista Accounts Receivable
• EDI – Provides electronic processing of invoices, ASN’s, orders and change orders from trading partners
• Trackers – Tracker screens provide instant access to history and status information for parts, orders, jobs, invoices, GL accounts, customers, or Pos

Vantage

Benefits of Vantage
Vantage is an easy-to-use, fully integration system designed for custom and mixed-mode, mid-range manufacturers.  Vantage gives everyone in the organization immediate access to critical business information by presenting information on-line in a management by exception format allowing users to immediately locate problems and correct them.

Point-and-Click Simplicity:  Much of Vantage’s straightforward operation is attributed to its point-and-click simplicity.  On-line documentation dramatically reduces training and implementation costs.  On the shop floor, available bar coding and light-pen data entry provide the ultimate in simplicity and event-driven, paperless shop floor control.

Graphical Scheduling:  Drag ‘n Drop graphical scheduling solves your toughest problems – on-time delivery and effective capacity utilization – by easing production bottlenecks for maximum shop throughput. A bar chart shows the time allotted to currently scheduled jobs within a selected work center.  Conflicts are clearly identified where bars overlap.  To rectify the overload, the scheduler clicks on a job operation and then drags it to another time slot.  If the altered schedule causes the job to be late, the system warns the user.

On-line Management Tools
ShopVision provides electronic real-time “windows” into important areas of your business such as shop-floor performance, order backlog, cash flow and scheduled shipments.

SmartTrack
DataWorks offers guaranteed low cost of implementation.

Why Customers need Vantage
Vantage helps midrange custom manufacturers meet their enterprise-wide business requirements and keep them ahead of the competition.  Benefits such as improved on-time delivery, reduced scrap and better customer service are made possible by the advanced technologies available in Vantage, such as:

• Award-winning Windows graphical user interface
• On-line documentation
• Global alerts
• Sophisticated order/job linking
• Web technology
• On-line job overview displays assemblies, operations and materials
• VantagePoint touch-screen data collection for event-driven shop floor control
• Drag ‘n Drop production scheduling board for maximum shop throughput
• “What-if” scheduling
• On-line tracking systems
• Time-phased material planning
• ShopVision executive query tool
• RMA processing
• Document management
• Dimensionsl inventory
• VantageBasic customization tools

• Quote Management –Generates and tracks of customer or prospect RFQ’s easily
• Order Management – Tracks order from time of placement through final shipment
• Job Management – Routes, schedules, costs and tracks parts manufactured on the shop floor
• Visual Scheduling – Displays job schedule and individual or multiple work center schedules
• Inventory Management –Updates and maintains raw material, WIP, and finished good inventory quantities and costs
• Purchasing Management –Writes purchase orders and tracks vendor performance
• Advanced Bill of Materials – Allows entry, maintenance and listing of product “bills of manufacturing”
• ShopVision Executive Information System – Provides strategic data required to make critical decisions
• Vantage EDI – Allows electronic communication with customers
• VantagePoint Data Collection – Allows labor and inventory transactions to be entered as work is being done on the shop floor

Sales Information

DataWorks headquarters is located at:
DataWorks Corporation
5910 Pacific Center Blvd
San Diego, CA 92121
Phone: 800/413-2797
Fax: 619/546-9777

Vantage Headquarters is located at:
DataWorks Corporation
600 South Highway 169
2000 Interchange Tower
Minneapolis, MN 55426
Phone: 612/ 544-7077
Fax: 612/544-8253

European Headquarters is located at:
DataWorks Ltd.
Windsor Court
Kingsmead Business Park
High Wycombe
Bucks, HP11 1JU
Phone: +44 (0) 1494 755200
Fax: +44 (0) 1494 522659
 

DataWorks Home Page: www.dataworks.com

DataWorks User Alliance (DUAL) Home Page: www.dual.org