Global standards organization, ASTM International, is revolutionizing digital workflow functionality with its latest innovation, Compass Points. This online tool empowers users to highlight crucial components within standards, creating permanent links for various purposes and enabling smarter standards handling.
Compass Points, featured in the latest edition of Standardization News, ASTM's flagship publication, offers an intuitive and user-friendly interface that propels users towards more efficient data management. By integrating this tool into their workflow, users gain valuable capabilities to handle data effectively.
The introduction of Compass Points follows a significant investment in ASTM's IT infrastructure, which has greatly enhanced the ASTM Compass® product. Leveraging the improved platform, ASTM is now poised to provide users with enhanced and flexible solutions, especially when incorporating standards into key workflow systems.
ASTM Compass incorporates years of customer feedback and usage data to provide features that help customers navigate change and meet evolving digital demands. The platform offers a range of benefits, including the ability to switch between HTML and PDF versions of standards, seamless export, and transfer of content to internal workflow systems and SOPs, access to additional content from various standards developers and associations, identification of standard changes through ASTM Redlines, creation and sharing of unique and permanent URLs, and tools to enhance usage and more.
Derrico also emphasized that customers accessing standards through ASTM Compass will be well-prepared to navigate the challenges and opportunities presented by the rapidly evolving digital landscape.
With the introduction of Compass Points, ASTM International continues to drive innovation in digital standards management, enabling users to harness the full potential of their data and thrive in an increasingly digital environment.
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