PTC Offers On-Demand Windchill

By DE Editors

PTC (Needham MA) has announced it will use an IBMon-demand service center to offer SMB (small and medium business)manufacturers access to PTC's Windchill product development solutions.The service provides Windchill's PDM (product data management), projectmanagement, and collaboration capabilities to manufacturers thatpreviously found initial startup, infrastructure, administrative costs,and technical issues barriers blocking deployment. PTC says the servicewill be both flexible and easy to afford.

The on-demand service will provide SMB manufacturers with Windchillthrough a shared hosted environment. PTC says that the capabilities ofthe new service will allow manufacturers to control all productinformation, collaborate with partners, suppliers and customers ondesign activities, and manage the development process throughout theproduct lifecycle.

PTC's software will be hosted at IBM's Boulder, Colorado, on-demandservice center. The center uses IBM Universal Management Infrastructure(UMI) technology to distribute software as a service.

PTC's new on-demand Windchill service will be offered as a per-user,subscription model starting as low as $100 per month, according to thecompany. The service will be sold by resellers of PTC solutions and canbe used with all major CAD products.