UGS and IBM Provide PLM to Small and Mid-Sized Businesses

By DE Editors

UGS Corp. (Plano, TX) has formed a partnership with IBM (Armonk, NY) to focus on the collaborative product data management (cPDM) requirements of small- to mid-sized businesses (SMB).

Teamcenter Express is the mid-market configuration of UGS’ product data management software portfolio. It can be coupled with CAD applications including Solid Edge and NX, as well as CATIA, Pro/Engineer Wildfire, AutoCAD, Inventor, and SolidWorks.

IBM and UGS will jointly market to IBM business partners to sell and support Teamcenter Express software and services to SMB customers in six countries: the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and China.

John Graham, executive vice president of global sales and services at UGS, said, “Along with an expanded Teamcenter Express, this partnership further demonstrates our commitment to expand our SMB multi-CAD coverage. Teamcenter Express provides an open cPDM product to manage multi-CAD data for IBM customers.”

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