Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

Solutions for small and medium business

Solutions for medium business

Drive innovation to grow your business and nourish competitive advantage. Ensure profitable growth by maximizing returns on assets and minimizing costs. Shorten time to market and get superior products to your customers ahead of the competition. Respond quickly to changing market and business conditions. These are some of the toughest challenges companies must overcome to thrive and prosper in today’s harsh business climate. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) helps you meet these challenges by providing the optimum tools, processes, and access to product information.

The advantage

Management of the product lifecycle is important throughout every phase—from product concept and design, to production, maintenance, and retirement. IBM’s experience and technology will assist you in each phase on your journey toward successful product lifecycle management.

IBM’s consummate experience in innovation as a driving force for profitability and growth is evident because we use these solutions to continually grow share in each and every one of our markets. Our internal PLM practices, coupled with thousands of customer implementations will be used to enhance the speed and efficiency of your business.

Our solutions are characterized by:

Proven expertise and experience that creates customized solutions for your company’s challenges.
Comprehensive consulting that covers all aspects of a PLM project, including support for implementation, application integration, technology hosting, and outsourced engineering and technology services.
Optimal software applications and services partners that improve your company’s productivity.
Global support capabilities that facilitate your growing network of partners, suppliers, and customers.
Reliable, leading-edge computing technology that accelerates your business.
Open middleware that provides interpolative and transferable capabilities throughout your product lifecycle.

IBM is the company that provides you with a complete PLM solution.

Benefits

Our PLM solutions help you:

Optimize your development processes and develop new products to meet the needs of a demanding market.
Enhance productivity and collaboration throughout the product cycle.
Capture, share and re-use company assets so you can get the most out of existing data by providing your staff, suppliers and partners the latest product information.
Streamline processes to accelerate innovation by providing greater efficiency and leveraging across your entire enterprise.

Product Lifecycle Management is the answer for today's design-driven, customer-centric companies focused on delivering mass-customized and personalized products constructed from modules designed and built around the globe. When the greatest possible number of creative minds collaborate, they innovate. And, in today's competitive, demanding world, the company that consistently innovates is destined to dominate.

PLM simultaneously supports and enables three distinct yet deeply interconnected processes:

Supply chain collaboration helps you access the product expertise and experience within your company and beyond.
Product development helps you develop better products in better design environment.
Enterprise process integration helps you integrate product information with all company business processes.

Learn more

Designed for medium-sized businesses, these total solution PLM offerings include the hardware, software, services and support you need at an affordable price.

Next steps

In addition to the IBM Product Lifecycle Management Express Portfolio, highlighted above, learn more about IBM PLM solutions by selecting the link below.