Siemens PLM Software, a provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, has announced the latest release of its Teamcenter software.
The Teamcenter 8 release focuses on individual, application and IT productivity, with new enhancements. It also supports IBM software including DB2 information manager, WebSphere application server, Tivoli access manger, Tivoli storage manager, and rational ClearCase.
According to Siemens PLM Software, Teamcenter 8 improves individual productivity by enabling users to interact from inside the tools and processes they use every day. It includes Microsoft Outlook user interface, integrates with Microsoft Office 2007 and embeds a “Teamcenter To Do List” inside of Outlook, to enable users manage their scheduling, workflow and engineering change assignments.
Other Teamcenter 8 enhancements include workflow improvements for participants, feedback loops, and asynchronous operations along with change management and issues management.
The company said that the new product allows companies to implement PLM by delivering a portfolio of integrated modules to improve efficiency at each stage of a product lifecycle. To enhance application productivity Teamcenter 8 comes with two new applications, Content and Document Management system and Formula, Package and Brand Management system to help organisations eliminate inconsistent branding, to integrate with formula authoring tools and provide visibility to information to reduce errors and recalls.
Teamcenter is expected to improve IT productivity by providing the platform extensibility services including configuration services, so that Teamcenter can be tailored to an individual business without developing costly custom software, connection services to integrate with other enterprise applications and customisation services to extend with maintainable and upgradeable custom software.
Teamcenter 8 also addresses IT productivity with improvements to the file management system (FMS) upload performance and transaction performance for multi-site installations. These enhancements are expected to provide secure file caching to reduce file transfer time and to keep important product data synchronised throughout multiple locations.
