SOS allows managers to generate customized reports and graphs based on design data collected by user-defined attributes. The project lead and managers can look at the reports and graphs to make project based decisions quickly. Collaboration SOS supports multi-site development. SOS is designed as a client-server system. Teams dispersed over multiple geographically dispersed sites can work and collaborate on the same project just as easily as teams located at one site.
SOS supports overlapping design activities with help of branching and merging.
SOS makes it easy for designers to create a branch and to merge the design changes with the main line of design. This capability is easy to use in SOS because of its graphical file-compare and automatic merge. There are many productivity benefits due to this capability. First, it allows designers to work on the project even after the main line of design is in integration phase. Second, it allows designers to experiment with the main line of design without de-stabilizing the design.