Software delivers PLM process and program collaboration.

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Smarteam v5.13 delivers enhanced enterprise PLM process and program collaboration. New generation, platform-independent Enterprise PLM infrastructure extends offering to multiple and remote platforms, and facilitates migration from CATIA v4 to v5. Configuration management capabilities enhance decision making, design flexibility, and collaboration. Platform-independent program management product enhances BTO and New Product Introduction processes.



Original Press Release:



SMARTEAM V5.13 Delivers Platform-Independent Enterprise Process and Program Collaboration Solutions



SMARTEAM V5.13 delivers enhanced enterprise PLM process and program collaboration for companies of all sizes.

V5.13 benefits include:
o Powerful, new-generation, platform-independent Enterprise
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) infrastructure
- Extends offering to multiple local and remote platforms
- Brings robustness, quality, performance, and full client
and server-side "customizability" to large enterprise deployment
- Delivers on-demand collaboration and connectivity with WebSphere® and Microsoft® BizTalk
- Facilitates migration from CATIA V4 to V5
· New configuration management capabilities to enhance decision-making, design flexibility, and collaboration
- Product behaviors and Product Views increase component
reuse, and decrease data redundancy
- Enhanced classification functionality extends filtering
options
- Instance modeling enables visual breakdown into
quantity-based and instance-based BOM
· New, platform-independent program management product
- Ties project, product, and process data with rich knowledge management function
- Optimizes collaboration for informed decision-making at
all levels
- Drives resource management, best-practice process, and
project knowledge reuse
- Enhances build-to-order (BTO) and New Product Introduction
(NPI) processes
· New Web-based CATIA V5 Integration delivers unified PLM
process:
- Expands the reach of collaborative design environments to large, distributed organizations
- Provides highly cost-effective solution to remote access
· Expanded multiCAD capabilities:
- Enhance integration with Pro/ENGINEER
- Deliver best-in-class PLM solutions to typically multiCAD
industries
· Project-based authorization to support implementation of
advanced, enterprise-wide security policy
· Support for Lotus Notes® e-mail
· Linking objects in external applications enables access to
information in other systems without data exchange
· Expanded methodologies, including Configuration Management, Standard Parts, Electronics, F&A and Supplier Relationship Management, empower companies with end-to-end, industry-specific best practice processes

Key prerequisites
For details, refer to the Technical information section.

Planned availability dates
· March 12, 2004, SMARTEAM V5.13
· April 23, 2004, SMARTEAM Web-based Learning Solutions (WLS) V5.13

At a glance

SMARTEAM V5.13:
· Extends SMARTEAM infrastructure to UNIX® with platform-independent enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
· Proliferates PLM process with powerful product-centric work
environment
· Introduces key configuration management capabilities, facilitating knowledge reuse organization-wide
· Optimizes enterprise collaboration via full-featured,
multi-platform program management product
· Expands reach of PLM to CATIA V5 users across distributed organizations
· Extends IBM/Dassault Systemes PLM to a wider range of
companies and users through a new enterprise-scale
infrastructure, on-demand PLM extendibility via universal
middleware (WebSphere® Business Integration and Microsoft BizTalk), and best-in-market multiCAD capabilities
· Provides greater security flexibility and scope through
project-based authorization
· Extends PLM collaboration across the community via Lotus
Notes support
· Tightens enterprise integration via links to foreign objects
· Optimizes Intellectual Property (IP) knowledge capture and
reuse through expanded methodology guide set

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