My company is at the early stage of doing a feasability on various PDM/PLM systems.
Up for consideration is SolidWorks EPDM, Windchill, Agile, TeamCenter and Vault Professional.

Our company has recently become a multisite organization due to a meger.
All sites only use Inventor. No site currently uses any form of the Vault.

Before they started consideing other PDM/PLM sytems my intention was to use Vault Professional across the sites.

My questions are

1) Is it recommended to have some form of the Vault installed before the introduction of a non AutoDesk PDM/PLM. Or does the vault now become obsolete.

2) I have read in other forums about the problems associated with letting these other non AutoDesk applications control the Inventor files. In particular "Derived parts", "Shrink wraps", i-assemblies, i-parts and content centre. Has anyone had these issues.

Regards