What is digital continuity?

Digital continuity is the ability to maintain and use digital information as needed, ensuring that data remains accurate, accessible, and usable over time despite changes in technology. This concept is crucial for organizations that rely on digital information for their operations, as it ensures that data can be found, opened, worked with, understood, and trusted whenever required.

What are the benefits of achieving digital continuity?

Refine Collaboration

Enable seamless communication and collaboration around a central, real-time data source. This ensures that all stakeholders have access to the same information, reducing errors and improving efficiency.

Streamline Data-sharing

By working together on a single product definition, digital continuity eliminates the need for CAD data translation and other time-consuming processes, thereby speeding up development cycles.

Reduce Costs

Bring design and simulation engineers closer together, allowing for optimization of product designs before prototyping, which reduces overall development costs.

Enhance Decision-making

Access to real-time project data allows teams to make better-informed decisions more quickly, expediting time-to-market and improving product quality.

Increase Productivity

Break down silos and enabling real-time collaboration between global teams, departments, suppliers, partners, and customers accelerates and improves development processes.

Optimize Efficiency

Ensure that all team members can access and use the information they need when they need it, leading to more efficient operations and better resource allocation.

What's the best way to get started with digital continuity?

To implement digital continuity effectively, organizations need to adopt a structured approach that encompasses people, processes, and data. Keep reading to discover our recommended approach or reach out to us for a free consultation today.

Plan for action

Ensure that all employees understand the directive and assess existing work practices to identify areas for improvement.

Define your requirements

Establish an effective records management system to determine what information needs to be kept and how it will be used over time.

Assess and manage risks

Conduct a risk assessment to identify potential issues, such as file format obsolescence, and develop strategies to mitigate these risks.

Maintain processes, systems, and integrations

Embed digital continuity into existing business processes to ensure that information remains usable through changes in technology and organizational structure.

Ultimately, your solution should be able to manage complicated product data and help your extended teams to communicate, share, and collaborate in real-time.

Connect your expanded enterprise’s operations – including suppliers, partners, and customers – using a comprehensive digital platform.

3DEXPERIENCE is a cloud-based digital platform that facilitates connectivity across your product lifecycle, enabling your teams to work from a single source of truth.

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