About CES Installation

The Collaborative Enterprise Sourcing (CES) describes the process used to manage the sourcing process for the parts involved in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) cycle.

The CES server runs in the background and is triggered on special actions, when using the ENOVIA V5 VPM application. The actions can be simple search, standard search, view search results, and so on.  The CES server interacts with the CES database. This process uses the Web Services infrastructure defined for the client to interact with the ENOVIA server. Because the process runs on an application server, CES server is instantiated once, and serves multiple clients.

CES database is an object relational database, which represents, and classifies database entities in a hierarchical manner.