Vds from Artisan Software Tools is a uniquely Versatile solution. Software which integrates commercially available & in-house tools used in the development, delivery & support of complex, software-intensive systems.

Vds - is a data-centric solution that brings together, through a single desktop Portal, your engineering business process, your project teams, their tools & the single truth - real-time configured and change-controlled engineering data.

Vds - is specifically designed to support the key of Systems Engineering and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) applicable to today's Through-Life engineering requirements, from Concept and Design, through Systems an Software Architecture, Implementation, Test and Maintenance & can be closely integrated with other components of your Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system e.g. (PPM, CAx, MPM, PDM, ERP)

Vds - is suited not just to complex, software-intensive systems development, but is ideal for application to the Product Line Development, System of Systems and Open Systems Architecture problem domains as well as providing significant benefits in the Support phase.

Vds - will wrap your existing tools, from both third party vendors and in-house, into a single system, configured to your engineering process.

Vds - is a tool-agnostic, Enterprise Application, sever based, true thin-client via Citrix/Terminal services, accessible worldwide through PWAN or Secure Internet.

Vds - can be delivered inside or outside your IT infrastructure, either as a Managed Service or a Licensed solution to enable collaboration between sites and within your supply chain.

Vds - enables you to concentrate on exploiting it's Intellectual Property and core capabilities through your own engineering Business Processes, rather than expending time & effort on developing, supporting and administrating the tools, databases, support processes and IT that surround complex engineering.

*For more information on what we have to offer, please see our Overview page.