Beyond the Paper

Whoa! Way beyond the paper, as the man says...
We've been exploring doing some work with Revit DWF for systems integration, similar to some of the stuff that we've done with Vault and Productstream - and the possibilities are amazing...
I've been working with a customer that has big visions of how BIM data can be tied to their back end systems, inside Revit, inside DWF, etc... And I'd like to say that as of 9.0, it's a reality...
Not only are all the objects there, not only are all the regular parameters there, but in particular two things show me that they went the extra mile (ok, it was probably only an extra 10 feet - but from a System Integration standpoint, it's the last mile).

Shared Parameters and User-Defined Project Parameters
It would have been so easy for them to leave this out - the parameters that the CUSTOMER thinks are important, beyond what is built in... They're in there.

The Revit Element ID
This REALLY blows me away... Each object in the DWF carries the ElementID that it was generated from, allowing you to cross-reference between what was in Revit and what was created in DWF...
I think that the door has been opened to real integration - and between what's there now, the new DWF Composer (Design Review) and the Constructware merger, I'm excited to be a part of where it's going.