SOS makes it easy for 2 designers to work on the same file. In a typical design project, designers continuously make changes to the design repository by creating new revisions, tagging and re-tagging revisions, creating new branches and taking snapshots. It is very difficult for designers to keep track of all the latest changes and to continuously update their work-area with the relevant one. In SOS designers can on demand choose to update their work-area with latest changes. With help of this feature each designer is always in sync with progress made by other team members.
SOS helps designers avoid most common user errors associated with design data management products.
Often designers check-out multiple files to fix a bug or enhance a feature. Designers often forget to check-in all the files after fixing the bug. This causes big problems for system engineer who wants to run long simulation and does not get all the design changes. SOS uses flags to alert the designers of such oversight. This helps you avoid mistakes that can be quite expensive in terms of lost engineering time.