Platform extensibility services White Paper Realizing PLM s value quickly and cost effectively Complex enterprise software implementations can be problematic. Your PLM implementation does not have to be difficult. With Teamcenter software s proven, scalable, open PLM platform and Teamcenter s platform extensibility services you can take control of your PLM implementation schedule and costs, avoid runaway integration projects and reduce or eliminate your need for customization.
White Paper Platform extensibility services 2 Contents Executive summary...3 Business challenges...4 Benefits of Teamcenter s approach to enterprise PLM implementation...5 Key capabilities...6 Next steps...8
White Paper Platform extensibility services 3 Executive summary Enterprise software implementations can be problematic. In a recent survey of over 1300 global organizations that implemented enterprise software in the last three years, Panorama Consulting Group discovered that 93 percent of these integration projects took longer than expected and 59 percent of these projects cost more than originally anticipated. 1 How can you avoid these concerns when implementing PLM in your enterprise? Teamcenter software s answer to these problems is platform extensibility services. Built on Siemens PLM Software s proven, scalable, open PLM platform, Teamcenter s comprehensive set of platform extensibility services enable you to realize value from your PLM platform investment quickly and cost effectively. More specifically, these services enable you to: Quickly configure Teamcenter to fit your business with little or no custom software code Leverage your existing and future investments by connecting Teamcenter with your other enterprise Create easily maintainable and upgradable Teamcenter customizations when you decide to customize Teamcenter with specialized 1 Panorama Consulting Group Report, January 7, 2009.
White Paper Platform extensibility services 4 Business challenges A wide variety of challenges arise when you try to implement enterprise software to enable major enterprise business initiatives, including the need to: Deliver immediate business value by addressing your company s unique business and IT needs. Out-of-the-box enterprise may not provide your company with immediate value. They have to be properly implemented and tailored to fit your business. This process typically requires your implementation team to jump through seemingly endless, costly and time consuming hoops. After purchasing an enterprise application, how much additional time and money does your company have to spend to realize value? Leverage other enterprise. Most companies invest in more than one enterprise application and they want key to work together to compound their ROI. However, connecting disparate and making them work together can be costly and complex. How much of your IT budget is spent on developing and maintaining custom software to connect your disparate enterprise? Manage implementation and maintenance of custom capabilities. Many enterprise require extensive customization. Initially developing and maintaining these customizations may seem to be manageable, but as your company relies on more and more customizations, they can take a life of their own and place your company a difficult corner. How quickly will you be able to upgrade to new releases of your enterprise? Teamcenter s platform extensibility services address these challenges by enabling you to realize value from your PLM investment quickly and cost effectively.
White Paper Platform extensibility services 5 Teamcenter s approach to enterprise PLM implementation addresses the following business and IT issues. Benefits of Teamcenter s approach to enterprise PLM implementation Teamcenter function Configure Teamcenter to fit your business Business value Teamcenter s platform extensibility services enable you to address your company s unique business and IT needs by: Empowering your PLM process owners to quickly configure your PLM platform so you can reduce or eliminate the need for customization Empowering your IT teams to easily deploy and maintain the PLM configurations that you create Connect Teamcenter and other enterprise Teamcenter s platform extensibility services enable you to stop integration projects from taking over your IT budget by: Easily leveraging your ERP investments to extend the value of PLM from design to production Providing different organizations across your enterprise with the flexibility to use your PLM platform in the way best suited to their business without sacrificing connectivity Enabling you to leverage your existing and future enterprise application investments with connector building blocks that can be quickly assembled to connect Teamcenter with third-party Minimizing your training costs and promoting user adoption by allowing end users to access your PLM platform s data/ capabilities from familiar desktop or a web portal Customize Teamcenter with specialized Teamcenter s platform extensibility services empower you to avoid customizing yourself into a corner by: Providing comprehensive access to your PLM platform s data and functional capabilities in a standard way Providing guidelines and best practices that enable you to create maintainable and upgradable PLM extensions Supporting an extensible rich application platform that enables you to rapidly create reliable plug-ins and complementary
White Paper Platform extensibility services 6 Key capabilities Teamcenter s platform extensibility services provide extensive capabilities to enable you to quickly and cost effectively realize value from your PLM platform. As you assess these capabilities, it s important to realize that all of these platform extensibility services are the same services that Siemens PLM Software uses internally to develop Teamcenter. As a result, you can be assured that the capabilties/functionalities that you create with these services will be upgradable and maintainable as future Teamcenter releases become available. Configuration capabilities. You can address your company s unique business and IT needs while reducing or eliminating the need for costly customization with Teamcenter s business modeler integrated development environment (BMIDE). BMIDE provides a single, powerful yet easy-to-use business modeler to create Teamcenter configurations. With its business process oriented user interface and numerous wizards that provide step-bystep guidance and best practices, your PLM process owners can quickly define new business objects, modify existing business objects and define various business rules to tailor Teamcenter to fit your needs without requiring them to master any software development skills or learn how to write any custom software. Even more importantly, BMIDE standardizes the process of creating Teamcenter configurations so you can easily upgrade them to future Teamcenter releases. BMIDE also empowers your IT teams by enabling them to simplify configuration deployment and maintenance. You can use BMIDE to: Package your Teamcenter configurations into a single intelligent template for easy distribution and consistent deployment. Empower your IT teams so they can rapidly deploy configurations to multiple Teamcenter installations, as well as easily enforce dependency rules, manage upgrades and facilitate deployment without taking the Teamcenter system off-line. Minimize errors and verify successful configuration deployment with automatic error checking and deployment verification. Connection capabilities. To facilitate cost effective enterprise application integration, Teamcenter s platform extensibility services provide the following capabilities. Teamcenter gateway. You can use Teamcenter gateway to quickly connect Teamcenter with leading ERP systems, such as SAP and Oracle Manufacturing. This turnkey end-to-end solution includes a connector that facilitates full bidirectional knowledge exchange between the systems, best-practice PLM-ERP integration and all necessary data mappings and data model extensions. Teamcenter gateway can be configured to adapt to your unique integration needs. With Teamcenter gateway, you can create a single source of product and process knowledge and eliminate the need for costly and error-prone maintenance of disparate knowledge sources. By establishing synergy between world-class PLM and ERP technologies, you can quickly and cost effectively leverage the domain strengths of both and eliminate the need to customize one application beyond its domain capabilities. Teamcenter global services and BMIDE. You can leverage Teamcenter global services in conjunction with BMIDE to connect multiple Teamcenter installations with different data models, different versions and even different Teamcenter products. With these services, you can perform Teamcenter deployment, maintenance and upgrades across your enterprise in phases. Various organizations within your enterprise can leverage this flexibility to deploy Teamcenter in the way that s best suited to their specific needs while maintaining enterprise-wide connectivity. Teamcenter BMIDE s mapping designer plug-in can be used to interactively define data mapping across your different installations. You can leverage many pre-defined data mappings developed on a best-practice basis and easily define new data mappings with a simple drag and drop action. With turnkey Teamcenter-to-Teamcenter connectors provided by Teamcenter global services and BMIDE s mapping designer, it is easy to connect multiple different Teamcenter installations. Teamcenter global services also provide a comprehensive set of connector building blocks. From
White Paper Platform extensibility services 7 simple data retrieval and transformation to workflow connection and propagation, these connector building blocks enable you to quickly assemble custom connectors to connect Teamcenter with other third party and legacy. You can use these connectors to leverage your existing and future investments without data replication. These configurable building blocks are built on industry standards and optimized for Teamcenter connection. This ensures that any custom connectors that you create will provide the best performance while facilitating easy future upgrade and maintenance. Teamcenter s Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) services. Teamcenter provides hundreds of SOA services that enable access to Teamcenter data/capabilities from familiar desktop or an enterprise portal web site. Using Teamcenter s SOA services, you can embed Teamcenter data/capabilities into user. By gradually exposing your users to new Teamcenter capabilities over time through a familiar user interface, you can minimize user learning curves and promote PLM adoption. You can also phase in user training by providing a more manageable set of capabilities over time. Customization capabilities. To manage and streamline customization, Teamcenter s platform extensibility services provide the following capabilities. Teamcenter SOA services. Teamcenter SOA services provide your software engineers with streamlined access to Teamcenter s data/ capabilities. Hundreds of SOA services are available across all key Teamcenter functions. Detailed documentation complete with examples and best practices are also provided. With Teamcenter SOA services, you can ensure that any specialized application that your software engineers create will access Teamcenter data/capabilities in a standard and supported way that also enforces your application business rules and security. Because these services are client technologyindependent, your software engineers can flexibly create web services or native desktop application clients. Teamcenter s BMIDE. You can use Teamcenter business modeler to eliminate unnecessary customization. However when it becomes necessary to customize Teamcenter, BMIDE also provides a powerful and easy-to-use integrated development environment that you can use to extend the Teamcenter data model and create new SOA services in a standard way. BMIDE s wizards-based user interface provides step-by-step guidance and best practices to enable you to create your custom Teamcenter extensions. Based on what you specify via these wizards, BMIDE automatically generates the necessary software framework, allowing your software engineers to focus their efforts on developing the core content of the extension. These automatically generated code frameworks ensure that any custom extensions that you create will be easily maintainable and upgradable in the future. Eclipse rich client platform (RCP). The Eclipse RCP is the recommended platform for creating Teamcenter plug-ins and complementary. Eclipse is an industry standard open source platform for creating extensible rich. It supports various platforms including Linux, Windows, MAC, UNIX and embedded platforms. Comprehensive documentation, examples and best practices for Eclipse are available. In addition, Eclipse is supported by a large community of developers that you can contact for additional guidance. With Eclipse RCP, you can create fast and reliable Teamcenter plug-ins, as well as complementary.
White Paper Platform extensibility services 8 Next steps Teamcenter s platform extensibility services enable you to: Quickly configure Teamcenter to fit your business with little or no custom software code Leverage your existing and future investments by connecting Teamcenter with your other enterprise Create easily maintainable and upgradable Teamcenter customizations when you decide to customize Teamcenter with specialized Even though many enterprise software implementations can be problematic, your PLM implementation does not have to be difficult. With Teamcenter s proven, scalable, open PLM platform and Teamcenter s platform extensibility services you can: Address your company s unique business and IT needs Stop integration projects from taking over your IT budget Avoid customizing yourself into a corner Realize value from your PLM investment quickly and cost effectively with Teamcenter. Contact Siemens PLM Software today to learn more.
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