Software extends reach of product lifecycle management.
Press Release Summary:
SMARTEAM v5.12 leverages product knowledge and optimizes business process through rapidly implemented, scalable, and customizable product-lifecycle collaboration platform. It offers role-based security, supplier collaboration through Supplier Relationship best practices methodology, and centralized systems management. Product-lifecycle-management decision support is provided through report-generation enablement.
Original Press Release:
SMARTEAM V5.12: Infrastructure Enhancements, Enriched System Flexibility, and Optimized Collaboration Facilitate Extendibility and Management
At a glance
SMARTEAM V5.12 boosts the reach of enterprise-wide Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) with significant infrastructure enhancements, enriched system flexibility, and optimized collaboration:
Enhanced PLM proliferation, with new, highly flexible behaviors and expanded technology enablers:
New role-based security
Enhanced supplier collaboration through Supplier Relationship best practices methodology
Centralized systems management and unprecedented system extendibility through enterprise infrastructure tools
Multi-site support enhancements
Best-in-market multiCAD PLM solutions, supporting tight integration with CAD design reuse of product knowledge
Powerful PLM decision support, through report-generation enablement
Exploitation of WebSphere Business Integration (WBI) and WebSphere MQ, for the integration of SMARTEAM with Enterprise Information Systems and flexible connectivity with external systems
Overview
What's new in SMARTEAM V5.12
SMARTEAM V5.12 extends enterprise-wide Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), with infrastructure enhancements, enriched system flexibility, and optimized collaboration to facilitate SMARTEAM extendibility and management by customers.
Enhanced PLM proliferation across the enterprise and optimization of corporate technology assets through expanded SMARTEAM technology enablers, including enhanced Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) middleware support, further infrastructure development on the Microsoft(TM) .NET platform and new client and Web server support
Flexible, predefined, "real-world" behaviors for documents and parts
Process termination capability that allows authorized users to stop a workflow at any stage, increasing organization efficiency
Enhanced authorization capability that supports access by role, in addition to by user and group
New, cross industry Supplier Relationship Management methodology that supports collaborative best practices for the flow of project and product information between OEM, suppliers, and even customers, reducing design costs
Greater system usability and administrator productivity through unified administration and system configuration tools
Improved user-friendliness, productivity, and systems management through streamlined, universal logon, via the unified authentication infrastructure
Greater extendibility across a dispersed enterprise with partner/customer systems, through unified language control and Help
Multi-site support enhancements facilitate deployment and easy administration
Enhanced decision support, through report-generation enablement (by extraction of SMARTEAM data to standard reporting tools)
Best-in-market multiCAD PLM solutions, supporting tight integration with latest CAD versions
Implementation of cutting edge capabilities in CAD integrations, for enhanced product data management including enhancements to CATIA V5, Pro/ENGINEER, and Autodesk Inventor
SMARTEAM - Gateway now includes an adapter to WebSphere® Business Integration (WBI), which enables communications with other systems
SMARTEAM - Gateway supports WebSphere MQ (WMQ)
New SMARTEAM Web-based Learning Solution (WLS) configurations provide the necessary environment to allow users of SMARTEAM to learn the product capabilities in a progressive and easy way
Key prerequisites
For details, refer to the Technical information section.
Planned availability dates
September 19, 2003, SMARTEAM V5.12
October 31, 2003, SMARTEAM Web-based Learning Services (WLS) V5.12
Description
SMARTEAM solutions drive corporate success by leveraging product knowledge and optimizing business process through a rapidly implemented, scalable, and customizable product life cycle collaboration platform.
The SMARTEAM product life cycle collaboration platform provides businesses with best-practice methodologies that promote optimization across engineering design, manufacturing logistics, customer service, and other critical enterprise functions. Business processes cover collaborative design, bidding, process and delivery, shipping, engineering change orders (ECOs), Build to Order/Engineering Test Order (BTO/ETO), and other needs across different solutions. By driving product knowledge and best-practice processes across the enterprise, SMARTEAM facilitates strategic decision-making, compresses design and cycle times, and produces other substantial bottom line benefits. SMARTEAM allows an organization to react quickly to market changes and deliver the right product to market, at the right time.
SMARTEAM V5 provides a portfolio of comprehensive and flexible solutions to different life cycle management and collaboration needs. Through its open architecture and by leveraging the latest technology standards, SMARTEAM products combine seamlessly to bring PLM to work teams, sites, suppliers, and customers, internally and over the Web, across multiple CAD systems, office tools, and enterprise management applications.
