CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive

June 2010

Product News

Covisint and PROSTEP AG Join Together to Enhance Supplier Collaboration

Covisint announced that it will globally offer PROSTEP AG’s data transfer application, OpenDXM® GlobalX whichis now available through AppCloud® - its third-party application exchange. Covisint made the announcement at the Odette25 Conference - Forging the links of the Future Supply Chain - in Munich, Germany.

OpenDXM® GlobalX, will be accessible through Covisint’s AppCloud® service, it will provide the data transfer functionality of PROSTEP’s data exchange technology to Covisint’s large manufacturing ecosystem. Covisint’s AppCloud®, part of Covisint’s platform-as-a-service offering ExchangeLink™, brings together best-of-breed applications for a variety of industries including manufacturing and healthcare--using a multi-vendor ecosystem approach. AppCloud® provides the “network effect” to users; allowing applications to be easier to buy, with faster delivery, and at a lower cost.

Supporting information sharing across the largest B2B ecosystem of manufacturers worldwide, Covisint OEM and Supplier Collaboration Services offer cloud based on-demand connectivity and communication to 300,000 users at 30,000 locations in 88 countries worldwide. The world’s leading OEMs and suppliers rely on Covisint OEM & Supplier Collaboration Services to reduce the cost, complexity and risk of information and application sharing -all through an industry-proven, on-demand web environment.

OpenDXM® GlobalX is a complete solution for the automated, reliable, secure and convenient exchange and conversion of engineering data. It resolves a long-standing issue faced by the industry of automating and securely exchanging engineering data inside an organization or across the extended enterprise. Specifically within the Product Design and Engineering function, the time and resources required for accessing customers’ CAD and PLM systems in order to push and pull product data is unmanageable.

“We are pleased to offer our OpenDXM® GlobalX application through the Covisint platform due to its vast size and established user base. It will provide rapid exposure of our solution to this community and easy access through single sign on. This is of tremendous benefit to those companies that strive to streamline processes, reduce time for product development and minimize staff size to remain competitive,” said Bernd Pätzold, CEO of PROSTEP AG.

PROSTEP AG

PROSTEP AG offers customers from the aerospace, automotive, shipbuilding and mechanical engineering industries excellent solutions for supplier communication and integration solutions for CAD and PDM, this making e-engineering a reality. OpenDXM®, a data exchange platform is installed more than 250 times and is used by more than 100,000 users worldwide.

Learn more at http://www.prostep.com

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