Glossary

3DEXPERIENCE Terminology

3DCompass

The main navigational menu to access assigned roles and apps, like the Windows Start Menu. 

3DDashboard

An app allowing you to access and navigate between Dashboards.

3DDrive

A cloud-based storage service that allows you to store, access and share files online. It provides Ad Hoc storage, like DropBox and does not provide any lifecycle management capabilities like Collaborative Spaces.

3DEXPERIENCE ID

Account identification needed to access your solutions.

3DEXPERIENCE Launcher

A small app installed locally that allows for communication between the 3DCompass and native apps and launches the app after selecting it from the 3DCompass.

3DEXPERIENCE Platform

A single unified platform that brings together stakeholders from all different aspects of an organization to help facilitate collaboration and eliminate silos.

3DPassport

Authentication service used to maintain everything associated with your 3DEXPERIENCE ID when signing into the 3DEXPERIENCE platform or apps.

3DSwym

An app allowing you to access and navigate between Communities.

App

A group of tools or functions designed to complete specific tasks.

Bookmark

An object, like a folder on a computer’s file storage, that maintains links to documents and other objects stored in a Collaborative Space.

Cloud Data Management

A practice of storing and managing your data in cloud storage. This includes Product Lifecycle Management capabilities, such as lifecycle and revision control. This provides a flexible option with greatly reduced IT overhead.

Collaborative Space

A cloud-based storage solution for data that will be collaborated on within your organization, like a virtual hard drive. Data stored in a Collaborative Space has access to data and lifecycle management capabilities. Users are assigned to Collaborative Spaces individually and access levels can be controlled on a case-by-case basis.

Community

Virtual forum to facilitate collaboration through posts, questions, and other content types that can be commented on and liked by fellow collaborators.

Dashboard

A page with tabs, like a web browser, that you can add widgets to and have a structured layout of your apps for your preferred day-to-day or project-to-project workflow.

Functional Deliveries

Otherwise known as FDs, this is a type of 3DEXPERIENCE platform update that happens approximately four times per year. It includes various new features and enhancements to existing features.

MySession

A service available within the 3DEXPERIENCE add-in of a CAD software, such as SOLIDWORKS, that provides the ability to carry out Product Lifecycle Management operations on the CAD objects being worked on.

Named User Licensing

Licensing method in which software is assigned to a specific account (username) and can be authenticated on any machine with the credentials associated with that account.

Native Apps

An app that is installed locally onto a device, whether that be a computer, tablet, or phone.

Role

A group of apps designed for a specific job role. Roles are ordered and assigned to users, granting the users instant access to all the apps and capabilities packaged within.

Widget

An interactive window placed on a dashboard that will run an app. These can be resized and moved like apps on a Window’s desktop.