Product lifecycle management (PLM)

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a strategic approach to creating and managing a company's product-related intellectual capital, from its initial conception to retirement. PLM improves a company's product development processes and its ability to use product-related information to make better business decisions and deliver greater value to customers. Now the IBM PLM Express Portfolio brings the value of PLM to small- and medium-sized business.

The advantage

We have developed business partner relationships with established, best-of-breed PLM solution providers. Their solutions, coupled with IBM products and services, deliver the cost-competitive, scalable and secure infrastructure you need.

Benefits

PLM solutions help you respond more quickly to customers’ needs, reduce product development time, and reduce costs. Analyst research has documented the results being achieved with PLM.

PLM solutions can help you:

Accelerate engineering changes
Reduce material production costs
Speed RFQ response
Reduce CTO/ETO order errors
Reduce documentation costs
Improve R&D spend efficiencies

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