Case Study: Octopart achieves rapid extension delivery and seamless in-Designer component search with Altium

Octopart - Customer Case Study

Octopart is an online electronic parts search engine founded in 2006 to help engineers find and compare components across manufacturers and distributors. Designers were spending excessive time visiting many sites to verify parts, pricing and availability, creating a barrier to efficient design work. To streamline this workflow, Octopart partnered with Altium to bring its data directly into Altium Designer via an extension.

Participating in the Altium Developer Beta, Octopart built a seamlessly integrated extension ahead of schedule, despite early-stage SDK documentation and amplified development challenges. The extension gives designers instant access to normalized data from 200+ distributors and 50 million unique parts, lets them populate designs with supplier part numbers and details automatically, and significantly improves productivity for design and supply chain teams while allowing manufacturers and distributors to manage their own content.

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