PTC’s Windchill ProductPoint Is PLM for SMBs

By DE Editors

PTC (Needham, MA) announced WindchillProductPoint, which was first announced at the PTC/USER World Event in June2008. Windchill ProductPoint offers an easy to learn, quick to deploy solutionfor sharing CAD and other structured data among teams. It lets smaller companiesexperience the benefits of product lifecycle management (PLM) without a largeinvestment while also giving companies with an active SharePoint strategy theflexibility to extend their product development system to broader usercommunities.

WindchillProductPoint represents the combination of the Microsoft SharePoint socialcomputing platform with PTC’s expertise in product development, essentiallymaking social product development accessible.

WindchillProductPoint helps teams connect to each other through instant access tocolleagues via presence detection; personalization of workspaces to organizerelevant content; and the sharing of rich product information throughout thecompany and with their customers.

WindchillProductPoint provides quick search and find for the latest versions of the rightfiles, extends access to engineering content throughout the company, encouragestimely information sharing among team members through the use of the SharePointWeb 2.0 social computing capabilities such as blogs, wikis, and online presencedetection, and more.

For moreinformation about Windchill ProductPoint,please visit PTC.

Forprevious DE coverage, see “PTCIntroduces ProductView Visual Collaboration Software,” (June 2008).

Sources:Press materials received from the company and additional information gleanedfrom the company’s website.