Adept combines product data management with engineering document management for teams handling designs and related records. It manages parts, assemblies, drawings, XREFs and configurations through check-in, check-out, moves and renames. Integrations include SOLIDWORKS, AutoCAD and Autodesk Inventor, with CAD access through an expandable task pane. Review and approval workflows track document states, send notifications and record activity in an audit trail. Users can view and mark up CAD, PDF and Office files without a CAD license. Permissions can be set for users and groups, with single sign-on, multifactor authentication and encrypted storage. Adept can run on a customer's own infrastructure or as Adept Cloud, a managed service. On-premise named-user plans range from 12.00 USD per month to 82.00 USD per month; concurrent-user plans range from 104.00 USD per month to 208.00 USD per month. Adept Cloud Essentials is 1400.00 USD per month, billed annually, and has a mandatory $10,000 onboarding fee for new customers. Cloud plans have asset allowances, and several add-ons are not yet available for Cloud.
Who it is for
Adept is intended for asset-intensive industries such as manufacturing, utilities, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, mining, and engineering and construction. It may suit teams that need to manage CAD files and related engineering documents on-premise or through a managed cloud service.
What is good
- Manages parts, assemblies, drawings and configurations.
- CAD, PDF and Office files can be viewed and marked up without a CAD license.
- Review workflows retain activity in an audit trail.
- Deployment can be on-premise or through Adept Cloud.
What to know first
- No free plan is listed.
- Adept Cloud Essentials has a mandatory $10,000 onboarding fee.
- Cloud plans have asset allowances.
- Catalyst, Integrator and PublishWave are not available for Adept Cloud.
Verdict
Adept combines document control, CAD viewing and workflow capabilities, with both on-premise and cloud deployment options. Compare the license type and, for Cloud, account for asset allowances and onboarding fees when reviewing costs.
Adept plans and pricing
All plansCompared on product data management software
- Free plan
- No
- Paid from
- $12/user/mo
- CAD file viewing
- Yes
- Revision control
- Yes
- Approval workflows
- Yes
- CAD integrations
- AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, SOLIDWORKS, MicroStation, AutoCAD Electrical, Navisworks
- Deployment
- both
