U.S. Navy
To modernize its acquisition and logistic support IT infrastructure the U.S. Navy selected Windchill in the cloud as the PLM backbone of it’s Model Based Product Support (MPBS) program.
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What is SaaS PLM software?
SaaS PLM software takes traditional enterprise PLM with its comprehensive capabilities and optimizes it with all the benefits of cloud computing and services. Users of SaaS PLM enjoy the same configurable workflows, change management processes, and BOM capabilities, alongside zero downtime upgrades, frictionless adoption of new modules, and built-in security. Windchill+ is the first of its kind: a feature rich PLM solution delivered entirely as a service for improved multi-enterprise collaboration and a fully connected digital thread.
Future of SaaS PLM: Delivering Industries’ Most Sought-After Goals
IDC forecasts a surge in adoption of SaaS PLM over the next few years driven by its unique ability to digitally transform product development and manufacturing processes. Businesses are relying on SaaS to redefine the customer experience and accelerate the creation of innovative products with a more agile, secure way of working. In this InfoBrief, IDC supports these and other claims with recent research, including global surveys on product innovation, SaaS adoption, success factors, and outcomes.
“SaaS PLM is the key to product development in a disrupted, global economy—it simplifies collaboration and streamlines information to improve design, manufacturing, and support processes.”
– IDC
Advantages of SaaS PLM Software
The best way to describe the sum impact of SaaS PLM software is “speed”. Feature rich PLM delivered as SaaS offers many benefits beyond the capacity of traditional PLM software architectures and deployments. These benefits add value to users, administrators, and projects across engineering domains, divisions, suppliers, customers, and regulators. Windchill+ simplifies and accelerates business, administrative, and functional processes, leading to faster time-to-market, greater innovation, and improved quality.
Accelerated Time-to-Capability
With a few clicks you can expand functionality to meet shifting needs or adopt new features to explore opportunities. Zero downtime upgrades mean software deployment will never again interfere with innovation.
Embedded Best Practices
Replace tangled customization with out-of-the-box features and extensive configurability. With built-in best practices and standards, you’ll spend less time validating software and integrations and more time designing and creating value.
Ready-to-go Day One
Eliminate system configuration challenges leveraging a full stack offering with a secure, established infrastructure that is always on the latest version. Increase user and capability adoption and expansion to save time, money, and reduce risk.
Introducing Windchill+
In the 2000’s, PTC redefined enterprise collaboration with Windchill PLM. This groundbreaking software introduced new levels of connectivity and integration, out-of-the-box functionality, an optimized user experience, and the potential to enable collaboration across global teams. Now PTC is revolutionizing collaboration again with Windchill+, which delivers all the convenience of SaaS today, while laying the groundwork for future innovation across the digital thread.
Success with SaaS PLM Software: Top Windchill+ Features
As part of PTC’s digital thread SaaS portfolio, Windchill+ offers the benefits of Windchill, plus award winning improvements that can’t be matched by traditional PLM systems.
Windchill+ shares the same codebase as Windchill, with all its award-winning features, functions, and ease-of-use. Rapidly expand users with capabilities such as enterprise change and configuration management, manufacturing engineering, MBSE/MBE, quality, risk, and compliance management, requirements and validation, and more.
IT teams can rest assured that moving from an on-premises PLM solution won’t compromise performance or stability, in fact, it improves it. Windchill+ offers frictionless provisioning and on-boarding, SSO support, on-demand transparent back-up and restore, decreased bug resolution time, and is always on the latest version with real-time product upgrades.
Enable secure interoperability across heterogeneous systems and applications with standards-based integration & data flow (OSLC, REST, STEP, etc.) to reduce the risk of unexpected third-party costs and challenges.
Rapidly and securely onboard users outside of your firewall. Access permissions for suppliers, customers, or regulators can be spun up quickly and users can immediately login and add value from anywhere, anytime—regardless of their geography.
Utilize a combination of automated tools, streamlined self-service capabilities, and subsumption of many administrative tasks. Simplify or eliminate deployments and updates, vaulting, cloning/re-hosting, change management, security, and more.
With Windchill+, upgrades and updates no longer require lengthy and complex implementation processes. Zero downtime upgrades that are always compatible with your Windchill+ instance means you always have access to the most recent cutting-edge capabilities and quality of life improvements. With PTC handling these product enhancements, your administrators and users can focus on adding value.
For organizations concerned about protecting their IT infrastructure and IP assets, Windchill+ provides integrated, full-stack IP protection. PTC presents world-class security including certifications, compliance, audit, pen testing, and environment scanning. IT teams can rest easy knowing that their PLM assets and IP become more secure under Windchill+.
Customer Successes
