Altium Vault

Altium Vault is the main core of an intelligent system of data management in Altium Designer. Altium Vault is first of all the tool for administrators allowing to organize work of a large number of engineers within the enterprise for uniform corporate standards. At the same time for developers of the electronic devices Altium Vault represents the centralized control system of data on projects working on the local (intra network) server and storing in itself all – from separate components to complete projects.

Altium Vaults represents a basis of intellectual Altium technologies for data management. These technologies allow to store design data and to manage them that gives to designers the chance to publish the checked design data both for internal, and for external use.

Altium Vaults allows designers to manage versions, design data, to control lifecycles of components and to analyze use of components in different projects. At the same time, Vaults provides interaction with supply chains, providing to users up-to-date information about existence of the components used in projects.

Users can select different operation modes with Vault. So, Managed Vaults represents the "cloud" data warehouse which is completely placed in AltiumLive in the form of "cloud" services. Designers should not contain servers or own infrastructure – all this, including infrastructure management, undertakes Altium. Satellite Vaults storages are placed locally on the systems of users that is optimal for the companies preferring to hold the design data behind firewalls, at this AltiumLive will manage authentication of users.

The Enterprise Vault Servers servers are used for creation of independent storages in the companies at their own capacities. This solution is focused on those companies where for safety reasons there is no Internet connection.

Altium Vaults 1.1

The major Altium Vault 1.1 functions — the data management about a supply chain allowing developers to select components, considering their cost, applicability and existence in a warehouse of the enterprise or the supplier; a possibility of parametrical search with advanced filtering and grouping of results thanks to what it is possible to sort project data, such as schemes and payments, by characteristics; support of Altium Designer of the editor of ActiveBOM which is a part — the active list of components allowing to project products with the set final cost. Representatives of the company claim that the ActiveBOM function accelerates a cycle of an output of products to the market.

Altium Vaults 2.0

According to the representative of Altium, the second version of the Altium Vault system provides the maximum control over design processes. Altium Vault 2.0 first of all is focused on large enterprises, offering them opportunities of the network Altium Designer installation / updating, multi-user work with projects, expanded functions of administration and work with storage.

The main trend of Altium Vault 2.0 is orientation to large enterprises for which there were possibilities of the network Altium Designer installation / updating, multi-user work with projects, functions of administration and work with storage are expanded.

• The efficiency of work with libraries is increased: Work with the editor of components is significantly simplified, possibilities of group editing are expanded, process of transfer of library elements to storage is minimized. The components which are stored in Vault storage now are available to use by a usual method – through the Libraries panel.
• Project management: In the separate section of storage it is possible to manage development teams and projects for joint design now. Each user executes authorization in storage before work on the general project and sees all changes made by other users. In projects there is a possibility of comments for which adding it is not necessary to save the file and to do new audit.
• Network installation: The separate section of the Altium Vault control panel suggests administrators to specify parameters of the unit and loadings of Altium Designer and also the subsequent updates. Remote network installation allows to receive to all end users the identical version of the program with identical settings at the same time.