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News & Highlights

Microsoft is a Premium Partner at PLM Europe 2009!

This year's Siemens PLM European User Conference is being held October 4-7 in Paris, France. It's the perfect opportunity to learn more about Siemens PLM products, future directions, and best practices. It also provides the chance to network with Siemens and Microsoft representatives, as well as other Siemens PLM Software users. Visit Microsoft's booth, and attend their keynote and breakout sessions to learn more about Siemens PLM Software and Microsoft integrated products and technologies.

Microsoft and Siemens PLM Software: Better by Design

Microsoft and Siemens are changing the way manufacturing companies worldwide bring products to market. Click on this video link to see how, together, Microsoft and Siemens are providing an integrated PLM solution for enabing innovation, providing insight to your enterprise and products, and ensuring effective use of resources globally.

Select the Right Database for Siemens PLM Teamcenter

There are key criteria to consider when selecting a database for Siemens PLM Teamcenter. This whitepaper compares Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Oracle Database 11g as the underlying Teamcenter database, in terms of performance, scalability, manageability, security, and total cost of ownership.

Black Diamond Equipment, Ltd. Uses Siemens PLM Teamcenter and Microsoft SQL Server

One of Black Diamond's key strategic assests is the passion of its design and engineering team. In the early stages of implementing Teamcenter, the company's sights are set on a comprehensive PLM strategy. This strategic vision is already serving to harness the extraordinary passion that fuels innovation.

BSH uses Teamcenter to collaborate across 30+ R&D centers and deliver innovative products to the market faster

To maintain a leadership position in the highly competitive and rapid-paced consumer goods industry, innovation and reduced time-to market are key. B/S/H leverages its strategic partners Siemens PLM and Microsoft to achieve its goals.

Comos Industry Solutions meets the needs of industry customers

Comos, a subsidiary of Siemens' Industry Automation Division, offers an integrated corporate solution for plant Life Cycle Asset Information Management. It is a key component of Siemens' integrated industry software solution - a comprehensive portfolio encompassing the planning stage of a production plant, through operation, right up to modernization and planning of decommissioning work.

Case Studies

•	Siemens uses Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V to save money, space and power. Siemens Standard Drives is a manufacturing wing of the global electronics company Siemens. The company’s servers were increasing in number, but physical space and power were in short supply, and management was becoming difficult. It was running a VMware virtualization solution, but the cost was prohibitive, so the IT team worked with Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner Silversands to deploy Hyper-V™ technology, saving money, space, and energy.
•	Siemens and Microsoft: Product Lifecycle Management for the High Tech and Electronics industry Microsoft and Siemens PLM Software integrated products and technologies help high tech and electronics manufacturers optimize their product lifecycles and position their companies for competitive advantage and profitable growth.
•	Siemens and Microsoft: Product Lifecycle Management for the Consumer Goods industry Consumer goods manufacturers can leverage Microsoft and Siemens PLM Software integrated products and technologies to help enhance and accelerate product innovation, design, manufacture and delivery -- essential to a company's success in these challenging market and economic conditions.
•	Siemens PLM Teamcenter on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 benchmark study Performance studies of Siemens PLM Teamcenter running on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 show enterprise level performance and scalability.
•	PLM across the enterprise: Siemens Teamcenter increases productivity with familiar Microsoft Office interface Siemens PLM Teamcenter's integration with Microsoft Office drives business efficiencies by making PLM information readily available across the company.
•	Siemens PLM Software and Microsoft team up to facilitate efficient global collaboration Teamcenter’s community collaboration solution leverages the Microsoft SharePoint environment to resolve product development issues visually.
•	Callaway Golf drives innovation with web-based collaboration Callaway Golf sparks innovation and speeds time-to-market using Teamcenter Community for collaboration across widely dispersed teams.
•	Bolzoni uses Siemens/Microsoft PLM solution for collaboration and innovation This case study describes how Bolzoni grew their business without growing their technical staff using Teamcenter Express on SQL Server
•	Integrating PDM/PLM with ERP This whitepaper examines the integration of Siemens PLM Teamcenter Express with Microsoft Dynamics AX
•	Black Diamond Equipment, Ltd. Uses Siemens PLM Teamcenter and Microsoft SQL Server for business success This case study outlines how Black Diamond realized a ten-fold increase in collaboration efficiency across multiple, global sites; reduced IT costs; and achieved faster time to market using Siemens NX and Teamcenter running on Microsoft SQL Server.