Powering IT Productivity for a Faster Return-on-Investment

Teamcenter 8 saves your IT department time and reduces the complexity of implementation. Teamcenter’s four-tier, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is flexible and scalable from the smallest implementation up to the largest PLM deployment in the world. Teamcenter’s platform extensibility services help your company realize value from your Teamcenter investment quickly and cost effectively.

Configure PLM to Fit Your Business

Teamcenter’s Business Modeler IDE (BMIDE):

• Empowers PLM process owners with a business process oriented user interface, wizard-based guidance and best practices that require no software development skills
• Extends configurability so you can specify displayed attributes and names, define new business objects, modify behavior of built-in objects and define business rules
• Empowers IT with applications and templates to deploy and maintain configurations, reducing or eliminating the need for custom software so that you can easily deploy multiple systems and manage the deployment of upgrades

Connect PLM with Other Enterprise Applications

Teamcenter’s Global Services and BMIDE:

• Connects Teamcenter with other enterprise applications
• Enables enterprise-wide business processes across multiple applications
• Connects multiple Teamcenter installations across various geographic locations (multi-site)
• Interactively defines data mapping among installations
• Quickly assembles custom connectors with configurable connector building blocks that are built on industry standards and optimized for Teamcenter connection

Customize PLM with Specialized Applications

Teamcenter’s Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA):

• Provides a standard framework to customize Teamcenter with specialized applications when the need arises
• Streamlines access to Teamcenter data and capabilities with hundreds of SOA services on all key functional areas
• Extends the data model and creates new SOA services automatically using Teamcenter’s Integrated Development Environment wizards that provide guidance and best practices

Pre-configured PLM for Fast Deployment

Teamcenter on the IBM Blue Stack:

• Pre-configures Teamcenter 8 with IBM® WebSphere® Application Server and IBM DB2®
• Provides a platform for PLM integration and extensibility throughout the broader enterprise
• Saves time and costs of configuring and supporting your PLM implementation
• Offers additional solutions including Tivoli® Storage Manager, Tivoli Access Manager, and Rational® ClearCase®.