Today the electronic industry is facing many product challenges to optimize cost and to accelerate time-to-market. Merging business and engineering data is mission critical to success. DMS is a bridge between the design chain and extended enterprise for optimal design and resource management. Mentor Graphics provides an information centric approach to data management. Information is available at the engineering desktop, anywhere, at anytime. Components can be searched and selected by all kinds of technical and business criteria. BOM and variants are extracted and shared in a design community and with the enterprise, additionally designs can even be updated from within the BOM. A key value is the search of “Where Used” capability on any kind of component element. Benefit Highlights Industry standard solution Integrated design data management Design integration with ERP/PLM/SCM systems