Collaboration Partners are external companies that can share parts, ECRs, or specifications with the host company. Sharing includes the ability to create new objects in the partner’s vault. Collaboration Partners are available only when using Engineering Central or Team Central.
A collaboration request can be between business units, such as between the host company and an external company. To collaborate between business units you must set up a collaboration relationship between users in a sub-business unit of a business unit of a host company and users in the external Company. Persons created for the external collaboration partner and in a route created by the sub-business unit can add Documents as route content. If the route is created by the external collaboration partner, persons have add/remove access to route content.