2025 Year in Review

Reflecting on Violet Labs' Biggest Year Yet

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As 2025 comes to a close, we’re looking back on a year of rapid growth and innovation at Violet Labs.

This year, we’ve delivered dozens of new features designed to give your team a "single pane of glass" to view, track and manage your product's development. By automating the mundane aspects of the engineering lifecycle (data entry, manual syncs, chasing statuses), we hope we’ve given your team more time to focus on what matters: the engineering itself.

From achieving SOC 2 Type II compliance to launching a hosted analytics environment, here is a summary of the accomplishments that helped our customers build faster and smarter in 2025.

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Your Tools, Seamlessly Connected

Our commitment to enabling an integration ecosystem remains steadfast. We’ve expanded and enhanced our integration library, enabling an even broader spectrum of  engineering tools to keep your data synchronized.

Some of our new Integrations and Automations include:

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• CAD/PDM/PLM: Aras, Onshape, Fusion, SolidWorks PDM, Teamcenter (direct to SQL database) 
• MES/MRP/Inventory: InvenTree, Manufacturo, StartProto
• Purchasing/ERP: Rillet, Silkline
• Requirements: DOORS Next Generation, Flow
• Expanded Part Automations: We launched more automated syncs between PLM tools like Teamcenter and Arena to downstream targets like Boltline, Cofactr, Ion and Manufacturo, ensuring part data moves reliably from design to production without manual entry.
• Filtering & Syncing Enhancements: Users can now select specific folders in tools like Onshape to optimize fetch scope and performance and configure allowable sync windows to prevent delays during critical working times
• Procurement Sync: We refined deep integrations with NetSuite, Precoro and Quickbooks to facilitate three-way matching of purchase orders, receipts, and invoices.

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Real-time Reporting and Analytics, Across Your Stack

At Violet, we believe data is only truly useful if it’s actionable. We’ve leveled up our reporting suite to provide unprecedented visibility into hardware builds.

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Reports

Multisource Violet dynamically displays any and all data associated with an entity of interest, for example a part or purchase order - across all of your connected tools. Now, you can more easily filter the source applications and properties you want to see, add your own custom columns for notes, assignees, or custom math, and save reports and plots to dashboards.

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BOM Comparison Highlight differences between assemblies with our templated BOM compare tool. Whether you’re comparing across revisions, lifecycle phases, or even source applications, you can instantly detect differences in part existence, hierarchy and attributes.

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Clear-to-Build We expanded our Clear-to-Build report to support even more sources, including SolidWorks PDM, Boltline, and Manufacturo. This report gives teams a real-time look at part, procurement, and test readiness, and allows users to account for part revision interchangeability.

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Analytics

Custom Data Visualization With the integration of Metabase and the introduction of Multi-line Plots and Geographical Heat Maps, your engineering data is now as visual as it is technical.

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Enhanced Integration Visibility and Performance

None of these features matter unless the foundation of the Violet platform is secure and reliable, data orchestration is traceable, and error reporting is comprehensive. Our improvements in infrastructure and integration visibility throughout 2025 ensure your data consistently gets to its destination - and provides real-time observability in the cases it doesn’t.

‍Track the history and performance of your integrations and data syncs:

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Configure granular subscriptions (email and Slack), and set up email notifications to know instantly when there are errors:‍

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Monitor health and status and quickly dig into details if there are issues:

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Requirements Management: Collaboration Redefined

Requirements Management tools can often sequester mission and product specs from the broader team. We’ve shipped several upgrades to our Requirements Module that help enable seamless collaboration while maintaining fine-grained permissions and version control. And if your team prefers more traditional, document-centric workflows, you can now view, manage and export as well.

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• Peer Reviews: Route requirements for feedback, reply to comments, and mark them as resolved.‍
• Guest Users: Invite your customers or partners to collaborate with you directly in Violet; no more posting comment sheets to the dropbox.‍
• Document View & Word Export: Review requirements in a familiar format and provide external stakeholders a traditional deliverable.‍
• View Synced Requirements: Sync data from tools like DOORS NextGen, Flow, Jama, and Valispace directly into Violet’s requirements framework. This ensures unified collaboration while activating your requirements with data from anywhere else in your stack.

These new features make it easy to review Violet requirements that are math-aware, dynamically linked to live data, and automatically verified against real-time calculations from across your tech stack. 

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More Secure, More Compliant

With Violet, your export-controlled data can now benefit from modern integration without compromising security. We're building tools that meet you where you are, whether that's in commercial or GovCloud environments, in your own cloud, or on-premises.

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• SOC 2 Type II Compliance: We announced our SOC 2 Type 2 compliance, reinforcing our commitment to the highest standards of data security.
• FIPS Compliance: Violet Scripts are now FIPS-compliant, meeting the rigorous standards required for government and defense contractors.

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Looking Ahead to 2026

We know every team's tech stack and data needs are unique. Next year, we're deepening our integration configurability features to give you more control over when and how your data is orchestrated across your stack. You’ll be able to bypass expensive integration consultants and implement your team’s custom business logic entirely in Violet’s no-code environment. 

Or if you prefer a little bit of code… we’re excited to announce the first launch of Violet’s public API! We’ll have more updates coming soon in Q1, but shoot us a message if you’d like to be an early beta tester.

Finally, we look forward to sharing some major announcements on our integration of agentic AI into the Violet platform. We’ll be launching a series of features that harness AI capabilities to make our dataflows even more intelligent and efficient, and we’ll be upgrading our integration framework to be as natively MCP-driven as we are API-driven.

Something else you’re hoping to see on the roadmap? Drop us a line.

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Join Us

If you're still manually tracking data, managing requirements in siloed tools or spreadsheets, or spending more time on tool administration than actual engineering, 2026 is the year to change that.

Violet is more than just a data integration solution. It's the connective tissue your engineering team has been missing.

‍Join us, let's build the future of engineering together.

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