This week marks a milestone in Siemens PLM Software history. Today, Siemens announced Teamcenter 2007 (read the full press release), which fulfills the commitment to customers to deliver an integrated, end-to-end PLM solution. With the introduction of Teamcenter 2007, Siemens accomplishes a feat analysts recognize as a great step forward in the PLM market.
“Teamcenter 2007 marks a new era of PLM market maturity with the industry’s first solution to move beyond individual software applications to establish a truly integrated PLM solution across disciplines, project phases and programs based upon SOA approaches,” said Michel Vrinat, Collaborative Product Development Associates analyst. “The rich capabilities in Teamcenter 2007 bode well for its continued industry leadership in the PLM marketplace.”
In the product lifecycle there are many obstacles to innovation including lengthy development times and lack of coordination. With Teamcenter 2007, you have greater powers to overcome these enemies of innovation:
Greater productivity through a single source of product and process knowledge
Greater teamwork with instant collaboration
Greater control by powering end-to-end PLM
Greater manageability through lower cost of ownership
Greater success from proven global leadership
Teamcenter 2007 is built on a complete service-oriented architecture (SOA), and its new easy-to-use interface and comprehensive end-to-end PLM solutions significantly lower the total cost of ownership for PLM technology. And with technology like the Business Modeler Integrated Development Environment, or BMIDE, you can easily configure the system and eliminate the need for coding customizations.
“SOA-based PLM reduces the cost and complexity of deploying and maintaining a distributed PLM environment,” says Ed Miller, President of industry consulting and research firm CIMdata. “Siemens PLM Software has delivered their new unified architecture capability with the ability to coexist and interoperate with current Teamcenter implementations. This means that the upgrade path for existing Teamcenter customers can be much more cost-effective.”
From the earliest portfolio planning and ideation all the way to in-service maintenance, Teamcenter supports the end-to-end product lifecycle from a single, unified environment.
“Siemens PLM Software appears to be ahead of its competitors in driving product data management functions across the board in product development projects,” said Dick Slansky, ARC Advisory Group. “Their broad scope of solutions is impressive but it’s the integration of those end-to-end offerings that creates real value for manufacturers.”
Case in point, BSH, a Teamcenter 2007 Leadership Customer
Today, not only are we announcing a new solution, but we are also showcasing the real-world results like those from consumer products giant Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH (BSH). Teamcenter 2007 leadership customers like BSH have led the way in aligning with the strategy and vision for unified PLM. Their motivation? Moving beyond isolated processes and information to best-of-breed, unified product lifecycle processes, standardized across the company’s global operations.
“We’ve had a big push from the business … They said we want to unify our processes and we want IT to help us with that so that was basically the birth of the Teamcenter Next Generation project … Here was a perfect match, business driving IT to come up jointly with unified best of breed processes and at the same time using a unified platform to support these processes,” said Matthias Bronowski, Project Manager for Teamcenter Next Generation at BSH.
Check out the Teamcenter article in this issue of PLM Perspectives for a detailed discussion of the Teamcenter 2007 deployment at BSH. For more details on BSH’s unified PLM strategy and Teamcenter 2007 deployment, visit the new Teamcenter web site for a case study and video.
