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Donnerstag, Oktober 02, 2014
Wipro 2014 Analyst Event: Leading the Change (Commentary)
PDF Key takeaways: Wipro held their 2014 Analyst and Advisor Day in Boston, MA, an event bringing together over 200 Wipro staff and key influencers from across a range of industries TK Kurien, Wipro’s CEO, updated the crowd on the big changes afoot in IT that lead to changes in…
Sonntag, August 04, 2013
Using PLM In the Cloud to Improve Business Flexibility (Commentary)
Written byUsing PLM In the Cloud to Improve Business Flexibility (Commentary)
PDF | March 07, 2013
Key takeaways:
- Companies must have swift, agile organizations that can quickly adapt to changing market demands
- Cloud–based PLM delivers fast deployment, solution flexibility, and reduced IT cost
- Canopy, Joint Venture of Atos, EMC2 and VMware, is providing cloud–based Teamcenter solutions tailored to each company to meet their needs for fast, cost–effective PLM solutions
Introduction
In today’s highly competitive global market, delivering differentiating, right to market products faster is critical to a company’s success as they strive to obtain a “first mover” competitive advantage. Winning companies must have swift and agile organizations that can adopt their products and business processes to meet rapidly changing market demands. Operational speed and flexibility are key factors in improving business performance and addressing the issues of time, cost, market change, and resource availability.
Companies need to have the ability to access the functional applications they need, as they need them, for as long as they need them without having to pre–define what may be required to support a project or program. They also need to be able to use these applications within business processes, e.g., product development, and be able to share information quickly and securely. They need dynamic, flexible Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) environments that they can quickly adjust to meet their business needs. Companies are looking for new delivery and use paradigms that will provide the flexibility they must have to maximize their human and intellectual property resources without incurring burdensome costs and administration.
What Needs to Change
Today companies are not looking to buy “PLM.” They want solutions that solve specific business “pains” for their specific industry focus. Businesses must be able to more quickly acquire and deploy PLM functionality and solutions that give them operational flexibility and improve the efficiency and the pace of product development, production and service. They need to be able to take advantage of new capabilities without having to go through lengthy installation and tailoring processes – and they need to deploy and operate these new capabilities in a cost efficient manner. Reducing the time to deploy new PLM functionality with less (or no) IT support and infrastructure costs can significantly improve operational flexibility.
From a business perspective they need to achieve a fast return on their PLM investment and want to be able to grow their PLM solutions on demand without additional expense or infrastructure. And they want to have infrequently used PLM functions available quickly – giving them the operational flexibility to respond to changing market demands.
Traditionally, PLM solutions were delivered on a combination of in–house servers and networks (though Internet connections and browser–based user interfaces have become common). Solutions were configured for each company’s needs and then some level of IT administration was required to support the PLM environment. Adding new functionality generally required companies to obtain the needed licenses and then configure any additional functional modules to work within their tailored environment. While effective, this process took time and provided limited flexible access to new and needed PLM functionality.
In this paradigm, IT has often been a speed bump, especially in deploying highly customized PLM applications. While CIOs have worked hard to reduce IT complexity by rationalizing and harmonizing applications and establishing corporate IT standards, within the field of PLM this is still a significant issue. Making this worse, the expertise needed to implement and operate comprehensive PLM applications such as Siemens PLM Teamcenter is significantly mismatched with the abilities and capacities of most IT departments. Additionally, where IT is already outsourced the conflict between the outsourcer's desire for predictable, stable and low cost and effort environments contradicts with the customer’s demand for flexible and agile environments allowing business changes like flexible globalization, collaboration, and divestitures.
Companies are recognizing the need to simplify their PLM environments and reduce (or eliminate) the customizations that have long plagued PLM implementations. They are also looking for solutions that have more industry–specific best practices and standards embedded within them (another factor in eliminating customizations). The functions and features of PLM applications are the domain of the software vendors and they are combining those capabilities to offer tailored, ready to use solutions for the majority of their customers. Every advantage of a customization should be carefully compared with the disadvantage of losing flexibility and increased support costs. Industrial companies want to improve the simplicity of their PLM implementations to gain flexibility and the ability to rapidly modify the solution to meet changing business needs. This required and noticeable trend of "simplicity" is the foundation for the second solution component: Cloud Computing.
PLM in the Cloud
The advent of Cloud–based computing is providing new, highly flexible PLM delivery paradigms that address many of the issues with traditional PLM delivery. Cloud–based PLM solutions leverage the cloud’s ubiquitous access, infinite computing resource, and unlimited scalability to provide companies a highly flexible workspace within which personnel in multiple organizations (internally and externally) can collaborate using workflows that extend across the full partner enterprise and organizational boundaries.
Benefits of Cloud–based PLM include:
- Delivery of managed services at controlled costs without a customer needing to own the supporting IT infrastructure
- Pay–as–you–go access to applications and computing resources, reduced up front and continuing costs
- Resource flexibility – scale up only when needed for as long needed
- Speed of deployment
PLM in the cloud is becoming a more viable and accepted delivery mechanism. Companies want to use cloud–based solutions to address both infrastructure and software issues and requirements. However, it is important to differentiate the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) approach from the Software as a Service (SaaS) approach.
IaaS is a substitution of physical hardware (on premise or hosted) with virtual hardware. The advantage is the flexibility of the infrastructure and the rental model. IaaS is an IT issue, leaving the complexity of implementing and operating the application to the customer.
SaaS is a major change in using and managing software. With SaaS a vendor takes full responsibility for the PLM solution and the working environment as well as services and implementation. SaaS implies that the vendor also offers a configuration that is ready to use – and that's where the limitations currently exist. Full SaaS for high end PLM implementations (for large, complex enterprises) is not readily available. Currently the configurations that are offered still need customer specific adoption; and user licenses in most cases are not included, as the PLM software vendors normally do not support that model.
Closest to the SaaS approach for high end PLM solutions is Canopy's Dynamic PLM Service. Canopy is a joint venture of Atos, EMC2 and VMware under the guidance of Atos, offering Cloud Computing solutions for enterprise customers.
Canopy Approach
Canopy recognized that customers want a comprehensive, complete and end–to–end packaged solution that meets their PLM requirements. Customers are focusing on the three “P’s”: Individual Productivity, Application Productivity and IT Productivity. In order to make this 3P improvement easier, Canopy – together with Atos’ PLM system integration organization – has established a partnership with Siemens PLM Software to develop their Dynamic PLM Service. This is delivered through Canopy which provides a comprehensive Dynamic PLM service as a Cloud framework, supporting Siemens PLM Teamcenter. Customers can rent managed, ready to use Teamcenter instances in a "Virtual Private Cloud" environment. While somewhat limited, customization of each company’s environment to match many specific requirements is possible. Due to Siemens PLM's licensing policy, customers have to provide the Teamcenter licenses but everything else is included in a monthly per user price.
Canopy leverages Atos’ industry specific solutions and adds its domain expertise to ensure that each instance of Dynamic PLM meets the PLM needs of the using enterprise to deliver a PLM solution aligned with each customer’s business and technology needs. The Dynamic PLM Service includes:
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Company Information
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company, with approximately 289,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries.
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Company Contact
Anthony Hatter
Media & Analyst Relations
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Product Family Description
Accenture’s Product Lifecycle Services help companies organize, develop, and manage products and services, from idea to retirement. Their services provide greater engineering efficiency and predictability to reduce cost and increase return on R&D investment. Accenture’s end-to-end Product Lifecycle Services span the full spectrum of strategy, digital, technology, and operations:
- Strategy - including innovation and portfolio strategy, business case and roadmap, frugal innovation, product/process complexity management, R&D operating model design, organizational change management
- Digital – such as analytics based portfolio optimization, PLM in the cloud, virtual prototyping and simulation, 3D printing
- Technology – for example PLM custom application and implementation, systems re-design, unified ALM-PLM, application architecture, data conversion and migration
- Operations – application outsourcing, training development and delivery, configuration management support, technical publications, and more
Accenture offers comprehensive product lifecycle services, solutions and technologies customized to industries and modernized to respond competitively to the dynamic landscape.
Primary Markets and Focus
Accenture’s Product Lifecycle Services address clients in multiple industries, such as aerospace & defense, automotive, consumer goods, electronics & high tech, energy & utilities, and industrial equipment.
Strategic Alliances and Partnerships
Accenture has longstanding partnerships with all major PLM technology vendors, including Dassault Systèmes, Oracle, PTC, SAP, and Siemens PLM Software.
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ANSYS, Inc.
275 Technology Drive
Canonsburg, PA 15317
Phone: +1 866.267.9724
Company Contact
Tom Smithyman
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Phone: +1 724.514.3076
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ANSYS is a public company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange: ANSS
Product Family Description
ANSYS Simulation-Driven Product Development: ANSYS offers a comprehensive software suite that spans the entire range of physics, providing access to virtually any field of engineering simulation that a design process requires. Organizations around the world trust ANSYS to deliver the best value for their engineering simulation software investment. http://ansys.com/Products
Systems and Multiphysics: Engineering products the way you have for the last 20 years is simply no longer an option in today’s hyper-competitive marketplace. Simulation has revolutionized product development over the past decades by minimizing costly physical testing and accelerating time-to-market in every industry around the world. But for many companies, that simulation has largely focused on components or subsystems. Technology advancements in engineering simulation software now bring a total systems approach to product design and engineering. http://ansys.com/Products/Simulation+Technology/Systems+&+Multiphysics
Fluid Dynamics: ANSYS computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation software is a comprehensive suite of products that allows you to predict, with confidence, the impact of fluid flows on your product—throughout design and manufacturing as well as during end use. The software's unparalleled fluid flow analysis capabilities can be used to design and optimize new equipment and to troubleshoot already existing installations. Whatever fluid flow phenomena you are studying—single- or multi-phase, isothermal or reacting, compressible or not—ANSYS fluid dynamics solutions give you valuable insight into your product's performance. http://ansys.com/Products/Simulation+Technology/Fluid+Dynamics
Structural Analysis: The ANSYS structural analysis software suite is trusted by organizations around the world to rapidly solve complex structural engineering problems with ease. FEA analysis (finite element) tools from ANSYS provide the ability to simulate every structural aspect of a product:
- Linear static analysis that simply provides stresses or deformations
- Modal analysis that determines vibration characteristics
- Advanced transient nonlinear phenomena involving dynamic effects and complex behaviors
http://ansys.com/Products/Simulation+Technology/Structural+Analysis
Electronics: Engineers rely on ANSYS electronics simulation software to design robust and power-efficient integrated circuits (ICs), printed-circuit boards (PCBs), communication infrastructures, and electromechanical systems.Our electronics simulation software is ideal for the design of electromechanical as well as power electronics components and systems common to the automotive, aerospace, high-tech and industrial automation industries. Designing sophisticated electronic devices means creating numerically large models with detailed geometry and complex physics. ANSYS delivers high-performance computing (HPC) capabilities that enable rapid processing of the toughest simulations. http://ansys.com/Products/Simulation+Technology/Electronics
Primary Markets and Focus
ANSYS provides advanced engineering simulation solutions across a wide range of industries including: aerospace and defense, automotive, oil and gas, turbomachinery, healthcare, construction, consumer goods and materials, and chemical processing.
Sample Customer List
98 of the top 100 industrial companies on the Fortune 100 list are ANSYS customers. (See http://ansys.com/About+ANSYS/Customers)
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Selerant Corp. US Headquarters
499 7th Ave, Floor 18N
New York, NY 10018
Phone: +1 248.614.2400
Fax: +1 248.614.2411
URL: www.selerant.com
Blog: http://info.selerant.com/selerant-blogs
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Michelle Duerst
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Selerant is Privately held.
Product Family Description
Selerant is a software solution provider for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Regulatory Compliance.
Selerant’s web-based PLM software, DevEX, has configurable modules that integrate seamlessly with each other and with legacy systems to help provide a comprehensive solution. These modules include: Product Development, Regulatory Compliance, Product Data Management, and Innovation Process Management.
Features of DevEX include:
- Regulatory Guidelines and Nutritional Claims
- Lifecycle Assessment (eco-design)
- Labeling
- Formula Leveraging and Optimization
- Product Requirements and Specifications
Most notably, Selerant partners with its customers in the continuing development of DevEX, and reinvests nearly three times the industry standard in its own R&D. Selerant has headquarters in Milan, Shanghai, and New York.
Primary Markets and Focus
PLM and Compliance solutions for:
- Flavors and Fragrances
- Food and Beverage
- Home and Personal Care
- Paint, Ink, and Coatings
- Pharmaceutical
- Specialty Chemicals
Sample Customer List
Nestlé, Colgate-Palmolive, Barilla, Brown-Forman, Bacardi, Abbott Nutrition, Cereal Partners Worldwide, McCormick, David Michael, PUIG, Wrigley, Welch’s, Bauli, Lee Kum Kee, Parmalat, Sherwin-Williams, Sensient Technologies, Cosmo, COFCO, Ashland (visit www.selerant.com)
Strategic Alliances/Partnerships
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Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway
Redwood Shores, CA 94065
+1 800.392.2999
www.oracle.com/plm
Company Contact
Terri Hiskey
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Product Family Description
Oracle’s Agile Product Lifecycle Management helps users innovate profitably, with a broad and comprehensive solution to efficiently centralize product data, streamline processes, and launch quality products faster. Agile PLM Products include:
- Agile Product Collaboration
- Agile Product Quality Management
- Agile Product Portfolio Management
- Agile Product Cost Management
- Agile Product Governance and Compliance
- Agile Engineering Collaboration
- AutoVue Enterprise Visualization for Agile
- Oracle Product Lifecycle Analytics
- Oracle Innovation Management
Oracle’s Agile Product Lifecycle Management for Process applications help companies in process-related industries increase sales and get new products to market faster—all while simplifying regulatory compliance, lowering costs, and reducing risks.
- Agile Formulation and Compliance for Process
- Agile Product Data Management for Process
- Agile Product Quality Management for Process
- Agile New Product Development and Introduction for Process
- Agile Product Supplier Collaboration for Process
- Oracle Product Lifecycle Analytics
- Oracle Innovation Management
Oracle’s Agile Engineering Data Management comprehensively supports all product-related enterprise processes for organizations in industrial manufacturing sectors. The solution connects customers, sales, engineers, and manufacturers in a single, global environment that optimally links product requirements to final configuration with multi-CAD support, seamless integration, high configurability, and flexibility.
Primary Markets and Focus
High Tech, Semiconductor, Industrial, Automotive, Aerospace & Defense, Consumer Packaged Goods, Life Sciences
Sample Customer List
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Strategic Alliances/Partnerships
Accenture, Deloitte, Domain, GoEngineer, IBM, Inspirage, Kalypso, KPIT, KPMG, J-Squared, PwC, Verdant, Xavor, XPLM
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Plant 6, Pirojshahnagar
Vikhroli (West)
Mumbai 400 079 India
T +91.22.67056500
F +91.22.67056891
www.geometricglobal.com
Company Contact
Mr. Amit Fulmogare
Phone: +91.020.4028.4378
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Geometric is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange (532312), and the National Stock Exchange (GEOMETRIC) in India.
Product Family Description
Geometric has been in PLM-related markets for over 20 years, and claims over 16,000 staff hours experience in developing PLM solutions. Geometric specializes in engineering solutions, services and technologies that enable companies to formulate, implement, and execute global engineering and manufacturing strategies aimed at achieving greater efficiencies in the product realization lifecycle. Its portfolio includes Global Engineering services, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, Embedded System solutions, and Digital Technology solutions.
Geometric has significant experience implementing the leading cPDm solutions, including ENOVIA, Teamcenter and Windchill. Their PLM Services portfolio includes:
- PLM Consulting: PLM Strategy and Roadmap, Enterprise PLM Architecture and Application Rationalization
- PLM Implementation: Requirement Gathering, Solution Design and Implementation, Deployment, Documentation and Training
- Migration: Application Migration, Data Migration, Upgrade Solutions
- Application Development: Custom Application Development and KBE Solutions
- Application Management Services: Production Support, Application Maintenance
Geometric’s PLM solutions help their customers improve efficiencies across the product lifecycle by simplifying the application landscape and enabling cross-functional solutions on the PLM backbone.
Current solutions include:
- Integrated Quality Management (IQM) Solution: The IQM solution helps to manage (define or identify, build, track and validate) the evolving quality of the product across its development lifecycle
- Integrated Manufacturing Process Planning (IPP) Solution: The IPP solution bridges the design and manufacturing functions of the organization by converting standard-based design specifications into process plans, and integrating new orders along with their process plans into existing production schedules
- Enterprise Interoperability Solutions: Enables interoperability of leading PLM applications to drive process-based integrations and data flow
Primary Markets and Focus
Geometric serves customers across US, Europe, Asia, and India, that compete in industry verticals such as Aerospace and Defense, Automotive, Off-Highway Vehicles, Heavy Engineering, High Tech and Software Products.
Sample Customer List
Geometric's customer base includes global manufacturers, systems OEMs and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) including:
- 8 of the Global Fortune Top 10 Automotive OEMs
- 7 of the world’s leading Aerospace OEMs and suppliers
- 5 of the top 10 off-highway OEMs
- 5 of the world’s leading Machine tool players in their respective segments
List of Customer testimonials available on Geometric website
Strategic Alliances/Partnerships
Geometric’s Partners ecosystem includes PLM ISVs such as Dassault Systèmes, PTC and Siemens PLM Software. Geometric also has partnerships with Anark Corporation and Tech Soft 3D.
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