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About: Michael Craffey
Michael has worked for Razorleaf for three years and serves a dual role as principal consultant in business management and as project manager. Michael has had extensive consulting experience with product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions with over 20 years of work experience in the PLM industry. Prior to his consulting work, Michael worked as a designer and mechanical engineer.
For those administering an ENOVIA SmarTeam Multi-Site replicated environment, there is an age-old problem in diagnosing and re-synchronizing replicated databases when issues occur. This process has always been tedious and manual. Whether you have two sites in neighboring cities or multiple sites around the world, database transactions are regularly being replicated, with each site synchronizing with the others. For multiple reasons, a site can become corrupted and sometimes have more, less or even different data than other sites. To identify and resolve these problems, Razorleaf is introducing ENOVIA SmarTeam Multi-Site Diagnostic Services. Continue Reading
Not too long ago, Dassault Systemes announced integration between 3DVIA Composer and ENOVIA SmarTeam enabling companies to more closely integrate technical publications processes with that of the source data in engineering, namely CAD data. The 3DVIA Composer Integration consists of two pieces; a server component (TS9), and a client component (TC9). Configuration of the integration in a single site SmarTeam environment is straightforward, but there are additional considerations when deploying with ENOVIA SmarTeam Multi-Site. Continue Reading
Collaborating on a design project, around the world, is not simple. There are vast distances, slow networks, lousy connections and the like. Whether your collaboration requirements are regional, national or international, ENOVIA SmarTeam can address collaborative data sharing in a couple of unique ways. Continue Reading

Vik Paranjpe
Razorleaf is proud to announce a recent addition to our consulting team, Vik Paranjpe. Vik joined Razorleaf’s ENOVIA group recently, and brings with him deep technical experience with MatrixOne and ENOVIA V6 products, having worked in diverse industries like Automotive, Apparel, Medical Devices and Consumer Electronics. His roles have included V6 implementations, building ENOVIA V6 expertise within a team and technical presales. Continue Reading
You skipped Windows Vista, and now you really want to see if Windows 7 is worth the leap. Or maybe you may want to test SQL Server 2008 installed on Windows Server 2008 for your PDM system. For many IT professionals today, the solution of choice for these challenges is virtualization. And if VMware is your virtualization brand of choice, you’ll be glad to know that VMware Workstation 7 is available, with some new features just for those of us in the CAD and 3D arenas. Continue Reading
It’s not uncommon for large organizations to have embraced virtualization, both in the testing environment and for production use. Many vendors have offerings that make it easier for smaller organizations, or individuals, to take advantage of virtualization too. In fact, all the major vendors offer free or personal versions of their flagship products. And you know a software technology has gone mainstream when both Microsoft (with Hyper-V) and Oracle (with VirtualBox) have offerings in the space. Continue Reading
Whether you’re among the ranks of Engineering or Quality, creating inspection sheets can be a real pain. InspectionXpert is a valuable tool for automating processes around inspection sheets, and worth a look if your industry requires documented inspections. Continue Reading