ASTM Compass and Nimonik fulfill overlapping but distinct needs. ASTM Compass is designed for unique access to ASTM’s corpus, while Nimonik provides standards from 60+ publishers (including ASTM), as well as regulations and workflow tools for audits, risk assessment, and actions.
Following the Accuris announcement to end their partnership with ASTM International, Nimonik is now the leading standards management platform that allows users to access all of their ASTM standards, non-ASTM standards, and additional documents in one easy place. Other aggregators provide standards access via their own platform, but often redirect users to ASTM Compass for ASTM standards.
This article compares them side-by-side, so you can pick the right tool for your team.
Quick Overview
ASTM Compass
ASTM Compass is primarily a standards content platform built by ASTM International that provides access to ASTM standards and a small group of additional standards development organizations (SDOs) including AASHTO, API, CGA, and UNE. Built for ASTM power users, it’s a content portal that many libraries, labs, and engineering teams use to access ASTM’s full corpus, including standards, books, papers, and training content.
Nimonik
Nimonik’s platform provides access to one of the largest collections of standards and regulations in the world. Built for organizations that rely on a broad range of industry documents, their workflow tools excel at turning obligations (standards, regulations, permits, corporate requirements, etc.) into actions, audits, risk assessments, and more. Additionally, usage reports and other budget-friendly tools help departments manage costs easily. Most notably for standards users, organizations can access and manage industry documents from 60+ SDOs — including ASTM, ISO, ASCE, CSA, IEEE, API, IPC, and BSI — in one easy location, rather than hopping between platforms.
Content Coverage
ASTM Compass
ASTM Compass gives direct access to ASTM’s complete corpus (including standards, books, papers, training content, historical and redlined versions). A small number of SDOs are also available through the platform, adding extra depth to ASTM’s various industry categories. For organizations that rely on the full range of ASTM content, ASTM Compass is the canonical publisher channel.
Nimonik
Nimonik aggregates standards from 60+ publishers, including ASTM, and regulations across 600+ jurisdictions. As a result, Nimonik provides much broader coverage and convenience, allowing teams to track and manage obligations in one easy location. The platform is bolstered with several AI features that facilitate understanding and document comparisons. If you need custom lists, complete with historical updates, and robust workflow tools, Nimonik is the ideal choice.
Functionality & workflow comparison
ASTM Compass
ASTM Compass focuses on ASTM content distribution and deep learning.
Features include:
- Powerful content search
- HTML/PDF delivery
- Institutional subscription management
- Redline/change highlighting for ASTM standards
Nimonik
Nimonik provides access to a broad range of standards from one easy location. The platform also excels at converting standards and internal documents into actionable, auditable tasks.
Features include:
- Historical updates
- Custom standards list creation
- Audit checklists and mobile audit execution
- Corrective action tracking
- Risk scoring (inherent/residual)
- Inspection checklist
- Usage reporting dashboards
- Multi-device access via desktop, tablet, or mobile
In the end, ASTM Compass is a content platform that provides deep industry knowledge of ASTM content. Alternatively, Nimonik’s platform empowers teams to access industry standards and drive operational excellence.
Updates and Actionability
ASTM Compass provides native capability to show redlines and updated standard versions for ASTM documents. As the dedicated channel for ASTM’s own content, it’s useful when you need to access supporting content behind each ASTM standard.
Nimonik empowers users to effortlessly access standards from 60+ SDOs in one place, link changes to obligations, and assign actions. Nimonik also offers comparisons between revisions of standards. It’s an unparalleled platform at proactively managing access to standards.
Pricing
ASTM Compass typically uses publisher subscriptions with seat and content-bundle pricing. It can be the most direct path to ASTM content but may be scoped to ASTM publisher terms. ASTM offers subscriptions based on ASTM volumes.
Much like ASTM, Nimonik’s standards subscriptions depend on various factors like user count, collection size and number of facilities. Every plan also includes a built-in suite of workflow tools as well as expert onboarding with a Nimonik team member. Nimonik can offer ASTM volumes, custom collections of ASTM documents or the complete collection of 9,000+ active standards and 120,000+ historical versions.
Best Platform for You
Reason to choose ASTM Compass:
- You’re a research lab, standards committee, library, or product testing group that needs publisher-direct access, redline views, and complete in-depth access to the ASTM Digital Library.
Reasons to choose Nimonik:
- You want standards integrated into a custom list, so that changes automatically trigger audits/reassessments, teams assign corrective tasks, and actions are tracked in comprehensive reports.
- You want a single standards system that provides access to a variety of industry standards as well as regulations, permits, internal policies, and more — instead of juggling multiple platforms.
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