The derivation of materials property data is no longer a local activity involving a single test machine, laboratory or even site. Just as design and manufacturing are increasingly being executed via collaboration between several organizations, then so too is the collation and processing of materials information from disparate sources into a single coherent database, to support data consumers throughout the collaborating community. There are obvious benefits in standardizing on the workflow and approval processes throughout collaborating partners, and MSC.Software Corporation has been taking advantage of its technology for workflow of other types of functional data to apply to the materials case. Examples from customer projects will be included in the presentation.