Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division, is a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services with 7 million licensed seats and more than 71,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Siemens PLM Software works collaboratively with companies to deliver open solutions that help them turn more ideas into successful products.

Since 1994, the Siemens PLM Software alliance with Microsoft has been providing comprehensive PLM solutions to enable organisations to make smarter decisions that lead to better products. By tapping the synergy of the Siemens-Microsoft alliance, companies acquire a PLM application combined with an interoperable, scalable and powerful IT foundation to help achieve business goals quickly and cost effectively. The Siemens-Microsoft solution is a unified approach that enables companies to extend PLM to every desktop, eliminate collaboration barriers and simplify IT complexity.

When organisations invest in the Siemens-Microsoft solution, they can extend PLM to every desktop by providing simple access to PLM to more people. Its Teamcenter suite is fully integrated with the Microsoft Office suite, which is familiar to more than 500 million users worldwide. By providing every employee with the PLM tools needed to streamline processes and improve productivity via the world’s top user interface – a user interface that most people already know and understand – to encourage more widespread PLM adoption by more users. Companies that use Siemens PLM Software’s NX software or Velocity Series Solid Edge software to develop 3D computer aided design (CAD) models, can easily embed and share interactive CAD-neutral JT versions via Office applications. When every desktop is equipped with Siemens PLM software and the Office suite, PLM processes are simplified, training costs are lowered and productivity soars.

Every company wants to drive innovation, streamline production processes and speed time to market. Unfortunately, communication barriers often get in the way. The Siemens-Microsoft solution eliminates these barriers. Both Teamcenter and Solid Edge Insight software interoperate seamlessly with Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft SQL Server, ensuring ‘a single source of truth’ throughout a product’s entire lifecycle. Information silos are eliminated and everyone within an organisation, including internal and external teams, has a single, current version of the most appropriate product and process knowledge.

Extending Teamcenter through SharePoint connects people, processes and information around the clock and from any location. This helps enable corporate social networking to improve innovation and decision making. As a result, everyone in an organisation has the critical, up-to-date information needed to make timely, data based decisions. This flawless integration broadens the reach of PLM investment while protecting intellectual property.

It complexity can be simplified and total cost of ownership lowered with the Siemens-Microsoft solution. SQL Server provides a streamlined, robust, scalable and secure platform for Teamcenter deployments. This platform enables companies to manage global resources effectively, meet business challenges affordably and align products to specific customer needs quickly and securely.

Built-in interoperability between Microsoft Windows Server, SQL Server and Teamcenter saves time and resources by enabling organisations to deploy the joint solution quickly. This approach only requires investment in a few best-in-breed products, leveraging existing infrastructure investments and giving companies the agility to easily integrate new capabilities as IT needs evolve.

Siemens PLM Software, a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software, has 7 million licensed seats and over 71,000 customers worldwide. Since 1994, its alliance with Microsoft has provided PLM solutions that enable organisations to make smarter decisions, leading to better products. With this synergy, companies acquire a PLM application combined with an interoperable, scalable and IT foundation to help achieve goals quickly and cost effectively. The solution is a unified approach enabling companies to extend PLM further, eliminate collaboration barriers and simplify IT complexity.

Companies using Siemens PLM Software’s NX software or Velocity Series Solid Edge to develop 3D computer aided design (CAD) models can easily embed and share CAD-neutral JT versions via Microsoft Office applications, which can simplify PLM processes; lower training costs and improve productivity. Both Teamcenter and Solid Edge Insight interoperate with Microsoft SharePoint and SQL Server, ensuring ‘a single source of truth’ throughout a product’s lifecycle. It eliminates information silos and both internal and external teams have a single, current version of the product and process knowledge.

Extending Teamcenter through Microsoft SharePoint connects people, processes and information around the clock, from any location. This enables social networking to improve innovation and decision making, meaning everyone in an organisation has critical, up-to-date information. SQL Server provides a streamlined and secure platform for Teamcenter deployments, which enables companies to manage global resources, meet challenges and align products to customer needs.

Interoperability between Windows Server, SQL Server and Teamcenter can be deployed quickly, saving time and resources. It only requires investment in best-in-breed products, leveraging existing investments and giving agility to easily integrate new capabilities as IT needs evolve.