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Collaboratively Implementing Product Lifecycle Engineering Changes Using the Microsoft Office System

Product lifecycle management (PLM) engineering change process (ECP) solutions built using the Microsoft Office System can help manufacturers manage complex workflows. In this highly-collaborative process, internal and external stakeholders can work together to identify recurring problems, jointly investigate and validate solutions, and release the final designs to the release vault. The Microsoft Office System provides the tools and technologies that enable the level of effective cross-team, real-time collaboration, integration, and project management that is essential for successful engineering change processes.


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These featured partners have solutions based on the Microsoft Office System that are deployed at customer locations. Case studies of their solutions are available through the Solution Showcase.

UGS: Teamcenter Engineering Change Management
UGS Teamcenter powers innovation and productivity by connecting people and processes with knowledge. Teamcenter provides enterprise teams including company personnel, suppliers, partners and customers with the vaulting, global sharing, and engineering change management capabilities they need to capture, manage, and leverage geometry and engineering data created by multiple CAD, CAM and CAE systems.

Showcased Partner Solutions

EPM Solutions, LLC: AIM Rapid Project Server Pilot
EPM Solutions brings its Assess-Implement-Measure (AIM) methodology to rapidly provide you a cost effective pilot of Project Server. AIM provides a rapid assessment using progressive, stable project methodologies, implements your customized configuration remotely or on site on your server or our hosted environments and train your organization effectively to be productive immediately.
BLUESPRING SOFTWARE INC: Bluespring BPM Suite 4.5

Bluespring"s BPM Suite is a business process management suite (BPMS) technology that helps companies improve work done by people. Bluespring allows process owners to design, deploy, manage & update their enterprise-wide processes from a single desktop, empowering them to rapidly configure Office Business Applications that present the right information to the right user in the right format at the right time.

 

Our product is built on a fully Web Services-enabled Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and fully leverages the Office Open XML in the 2007 Microsoft Office System. This provides our clients with unparalled interoperability and a well thought out user experience that allows people to interact with the process using common desktop tools (i.e. Excel, Word, Email, IE).

6D Technologies Incorporated: 6D Project Catalyst

Project Catalyst is the first easy to use comprehensive web enabled Methodology product suite built inside Microsoft Project EPM. Your organization can create and publish your own methodologies from within Project. Or Jump start using our methods: SDLCs, Project Management or Six Sigma.

   

Catalyst Professional is built inside Project Pro and has facilities for authoring and customizing best practices, generating project plans from your Pross Asset Library - built on top of Enterprise Templates. Manage Documents stored in Windows SharePoint Services from Project/Catalyst Pro. 

 

Catalyst Web Access/PWA allows views of methodology and Process Asset Library.

Cimmetry Systems: AutoVue

AutoVue 19.1 for SharePoint enhances Microsoft SharePoint collaboration capabilities by adding powerful and user-friendly visualization, markup, digital mockup and real-time collaboration features for hundreds of native document formats including 2D/3D CAD, EDA, image and Office.

With AutoVue for SharePoint, the purchase of additional viewing tools or expensive software applications with steep learning-curves is unnecessary. Project collaboration is facilitated since a broader audience, regardless of the applications installed or the users’ technical skills can instantly and remotely access and review any document type supported by AutoVue directly from their SharePoint environment.

AutoVue leverages SharePoint’s version control, search and browse capability for easier project collaboration. All markups and annotations are saved as distinct AutoVue overlays directly into SharePoint, providing a single point of access for team design review.

KaDonk: LiveProject Project Collaboration

LiveProject Project Collaboration is a solution for teams using Microsoft Project (.mpp) files. LiveProject allows users to collaborate by making suggestions to project tasks which are visible to the entire team, and which the manager can approve or reject. LiveProject also functions as a Project Viewer, including Gantt charts and task and resource tables.

 

LiveProject Project Collaboration increases visibility and accountability for your team. Only managers need to have MS Project installed, while others can use LiveProject to view mpp project plans via the shared space on the LiveProject Server that comes with each account.

 

LiveProject Project Collaboration solution can be deployed literally in minutes across multiple sites.

 

ONLINEGROUP CA CORP: Stakeholder Cost Reporting (SCR)

SCR (Stakeholder Cost Reporting) is a powerful reporting system that compares budget costs, daily estimated costs, committed purchase order costs and actual costs, for 100's of concurrently active projects.

 

SCR benefits include: 

  • Executive dashboard view of project costs transparently shared with selected stakeholders such as project team stakeholders, clients, joint venture partners etc...
  • Integration with head office systems by effortlessly sharing cost information as required by the host Accounting System, Microsoft Project, or any other host application.
  • Business process via Windows SharePoint Services.
  • Digital Document Management strategies via SharePoint and InfoPath.
  • Data accessible Excel users to support business intelligence analysis.
Flow Simulation Ltd: Calcium Technical Data Management Solution
Flexible business-quality tools to make technical data a first-class citizen in the world of information technology.
  • Makes technical data an asset
  • Protects your investment in technical know-how and information
  • Makes data accessible and reusable

Showcased Partners with Relevant Capabilities

Polycom: One Click Collaboration
Polycom and Microsoft have integrated Polycom Video Infrastructure products with Live Communications Server enabling Office Communicator users to have access to an unparalleled Rich media collaboration experience. This integration brings faster decision making, higher productivity across remote workgroups and workers, improved relationships with customers, partners and suppliers, lower costs, + competitive advantage to our joint customers.

Find Other Partners

Search for partners in the Microsoft Resource Directory, your one-stop Web site for finding technology partners who offer a broad range of products, services, and solutions based on Microsoft technologies. The directory includes packaged software, solutions offerings, and training from Microsoft Gold Certified Partners, Certified Partners, and Registered Members.


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