Item: Altium Develop
Rating: 9
Author: Tom Chu

Overall Satisfaction with Altium Develop

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Altium 365 for revision control and library database on all projects. It is work very well for us.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Revision control
Sharing design globally

Cons

BOM generation
project management
process flow

Return on Investment

Collaboration between designers is easy and clear
Great Version Control

Design Efficiency

Our schematic engineers and PCB engineers are located in different time zone. They were working on same projects, and same time without any conflicts and sync their work.

Altium 365 Integration

We used Altium 365 for our projects. All engineers sync the local project files with Altium 365 to make sure the local files were the latest and PCB release files were the latest.

Alternatives Considered

OrCAD and Allegro X Design Platform

sample to use. Great feature that is suitable for us.

Key Insights

Do you think Altium Develop delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Altium Develop's feature set?

Yes

Did Altium Develop live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Altium Develop go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Altium Develop again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

In general, Altium 365 is well suited with our projects.

Using Altium Develop

Business Processes Supported

Controller PCB for Circulator
AC-DC power supply
Motor driver board

Future Planned Uses

schematic viewer for design review
BOM viewer for sourcing

Likelihood to Renew

It is our main tool for project development.

Evaluating Altium Develop and Competitors

Key Differentiators

Cloud Solutions
Integration with Other Systems
Ease of Use

Cloud solutions - Revision control and project sync for different locations
Integration - Work with other engineering tools, like solidworks
Ease of Use - Allow other engineers to pick up easily and comfortable to use