Real-time Product Collaboration On Every Desktop
Manufacturers today are under intense pressure to deliver winning products to market more quickly, and at reduced costs. To achieve these goals, companies can no longer go it alone. They must engage partners and suppliers, and they can no longer rely on traditional methods of collaboration (phone, fax, meetings) to get the work done.
To compete in the digital economy, companies must form extended enterprises -- with participants across different continents, companies, time zones and computing platforms. These teams require a comprehensive set of collaboration services to connect individuals to individuals, and to connect them with the product knowledge of the extended enterprise.
To provide these services, UGS presents Teamcenter Community. Teamcenter Community is a Microsoft-based collaboration environment that extends the reach of Teamcenter抯 product lifecycle collaboration capabilities to users throughout the extended enterprise.
Teamcenter Community Advantages
Visual Product Collaboration. Teamcenter Community extends beyond the basic document and conferencing collaboration provided by most collaboration solutions by delivering a Visual Product Collaboration environment supporting complex information as it evolves through a product lifecycle. Teamcenter Community provides industry-leading product visualization combined with integration to Teamcenter PLM to expand to extend the reach of product knowledge beyond the engineering group. Teamcenter Community enables all enterprise teams to access, visualize, collaborate, and conference around detailed product information like CAD parts and drawings, traditionally locked up in the engineering group.
On Every Desktop. Teamcenter Community was developed in partnership with Microsoft to deploy PLM through the common Windows- and Office-based environment to every user抯 desktop. Users gain access to product knowledge without leaving their familiar Microsoft work environment, allowing more people throughout the extended enterprise, including partners and suppliers, to participate in product lifecycle processes.
Adaptive. Teamcenter Community provides a rich set of collaboration services, including calendars, schedules, workflow, virtual meeting sites, instant messaging and virtual conferencing which optimize each team member抯 experience for their particular role, streamlining product lifecycle processes for improved time-to-market, increased productivity and reduced costs.
IT Friendly. Teamcenter Community leverages your company抯 existing IT investments, allowing it to be cost-effectively and easily deployed through the Microsoft environment for rapid implementation. Teamcenter Community builds on the Microsoft SharePoint platform with capabilities tailored to product-related team collaboration, including Teamcenter抯 robust visualization capabilities to support visual product collaboration in CAD-neutral format.
Teamcenter Community Benefits
- Reduce the frequency and time required for design reviews and iterations
- Links people with each other and diverse sources of product knowledge for better and faster product-related decisions.
- Optimizes dynamic processes and teams to maximize team efficiency and productivity
- Leverages existing IT strategy and investments for rapid deployment, reducing risk for rapid ROI.