Enabling Enterprise Application Integrations for Engineering & Manufacturing
Nexus helps engineering and manufacturing companies eliminate data and process silos by connecting enterprise applications. This extends the digital thread and drives true digital transformation.
Connectors by Functional Area
Integrate from anywhere, to anywhere.
Nexus supports connectivity to applications across the functional areas critical to engineering and manufacturing.
Plug & Play Transaction Templates
Business Rules for Common Operations
Part/BOM release to ERP
Document/viewable release
Item master retrieval from ERP
Supplier synchronization
Purchase order synchronization
Workflow process triggers
Featured Learning Resources
Nexus Whitepaper
Examines some of the challenges companies face when applications are disconnected, and how Nexus can be of value.
Case Study
By connecting digital assets across disparate silos, Nexus has helped Caltex Oil lower costs in the highly competitive oil and gas industry.
Featured PLM to ERP Demos
Integration Demos Between Aras Innovator and Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Between Upchain PLM and Microsoft Dynamics 365.
Why Nexus?
Nexus is an enterprise connectivity solution designed from the ground up to meet the unique needs of companies engaged in engineering and manufacturing. Nexus’ approach to application integrations has dramatically simplified the process, expedites time-to-value, and lowers the overall cost of ownership.
Simplified Enterprise Integrations
Nexus represents the next generation in application integration technology. By combining application-ready connectors, workflow concepts, and preconfigured transaction templates, connecting various classes of applications has never been easier.
Faster Time-to-Value
Product lifecycle activities involve a wide spectrum of applications that typically include CAD, PLM, EIM, ERP, and MES. Nexus has anticipated their operational characteristics, infrastructure conditions, and access considerations to aide in significantly accelerating integration deployments.
Lower Cost of Ownership
By leveraging off-the-shelf, industry standard REST application programming interface (API) conventions, organizations are able to adjust quickly yet remain resilient to the inevitable downstream changes in technology trends and business climates.
How Does It Work?
Nexus helps establish a digital thread across the disparate applications that support your entire product lifecycle. Nexus’ unique approach allows for connectivity solutions that are non-disruptive and quick to deploy, while at the same time providing best in class functionality, incredible flexibility, and high value.
Application Connectors
Workflow Framework
Ready-to-use Transaction Templates
Nexus has an ever-growing library of Application Connectors that are preconfigured to seamlessly interact with other connectors, resulting in an integration. Learn more about the distinction between Nexus Application Connectors and Integrations here or explore the available application connectors.
Nexus’ workflow framework orchestrates the exchange and transfer of data ranging from parts and BOMS to documents and drawings - and everything in between. The framework allows for truly intelligent integrations with logic, routings, and triggers. This supports configurable transaction templates and endless automation opportunities.
To accelerate time-to-value and minimize customization, Nexus provides preconfigured transaction templates to support common scenarios such as part/assembly releases, document releases, metadata federation or change activation. Templates can be combined, customized, or created.
Deploy on Cloud, On-Premises, or Hybrid
Synchronous & Asynchronous
Monitoring and Visibility
Nexus has been architected to recognize the reality of varying IT strategies and policies. Whether the applications to be connected operate on-premise or in the cloud, Nexus can be configured to operate securely in all possible configurations.
The very nature of product data is that BOM structures and associated files can consume significant bandwidth. Nexus supports both asynchronous and synchronous data exchange capabilities to enhance the user experience. Modes of operation are configurable in the transaction templates.
Nexus supports a full range of monitoring processes. This includes transaction logs, error recovery sequences and messaging. Each of these are configurable, can trigger custom processes and activate messaging to individuals and/or other services.