Collaboration is at the core of PLM... and at the heart of how we do business. We build close partnerships with every customer, working to fully understand their business needs and strategies. In fact, our top 100 customers have been with us an average of 16 years, when most software companies haven’t even been in business that long.
PLM, or product lifecycle management, could be defined as an information strategy. It builds a coherent data structure, consolidating systems.
Or, you could call PLM an enterprise strategy. It lets global organizations innovate, develop, support and retire products as one company, while capturing best practices and lessons learned along the way.
At UGS, we view PLM as at once an information strategy, an enterprise strategy and ultimately a transformational business strategy. We see it as a comprehensive approach to innovation built on enterprise-wide access to a common repository of product information and processes.
PLM is currently enabling the sort of convergence that ERP and CRM prompted in the past. In the early 90s, ERP unified finance, HR, manufacturing and warehouse systems. A decade later, CRM brought call center automation and sales force automation together.
Now, CAD, CAM, PDM and the manufacturing process are converging through PLM. Yet, PLM is unique from other enterprise software because it focuses on driving top-line revenue from a repeatable innovation process. Through PLM, your products are a path to innovation, industry leadership and top-line growth.
How Does PLM Redefine Businesses?
PLM empowers businesses to make unified, information-driven decisions at every stage in the product lifecycle.