Jim Heppelmann presented on PTC's vision and strategy during the first group meeting today. He was joined by Brian Shepard as well. Jim listed the business strategy as a four pronged approach:
- Grow by solving customer problems
- Technology leadership commitment
- Efficient operations
- Stable predictable business
One of the main initiatives going forward is social networking. Think of communication during the design process with status communication, IM, and collaboration. This is being most represented in the ProductPoint tool. This is the data management tool based on Microsoft's Sharepoint tool.
Along the business theme, the Windchill product now over 615K active seats, and is the largest area of growth for the company. One of the lastest initiative in the link solutions is requirements. PTC's aquisition of InSight plays into that. It is a requirement management tool that tracks substances and chemical components of parts down through the supply chain. This is only going to grow as new manufacturing and recycling laws are applied in the US and abroad. Windchill 9.1 bring some enhancement with regards to handling CADDS, Catia V5, and IDEAS data. PTC also announced the aquisition of Relex. This is an Engineering reliability and maintainabilty tool which I'm sure we'll here more about (if you are not familiar with it) in the months to come.
Brian Shepard discussed Wildfire 5.0 enhancements. There are 330+ enhancements in Wildfire 5.0. I will group most of those under Michael Campbells Pro/ENGINEER Roadmap session when I post that.
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