Product Lifecycle Management

Microsoft SharePoint® is fast becoming a popular solution for simple, file-based collaboration across all industries. SharePoint is tightly integrated with the Microsoft Office and Windows environments, and is also bundled with Windows Server, but until now it has only been able to manage individual Office documents and has not been a viable solution for managing the more complex, structured data typical of product development organizations.

Using mcaConnect's solution from PTC, Windchill ProductPoint, product development organizations can now harness the power, cost efficiency and flexibility of Microsoft SharePoint to manage and share their more complex data.

Regardless of your company size, Windchill ProductPoint can work for your organization.

Our company has a small engineering workgroup using CAD without a PDM solution.
Windchill ProductPoint from mcaConnect offers companies with small engineering workgroups using CAD without a PDM solution, a quick to deploy, easy to use way to collaborate on and search for CAD data while ensuring data integrity and enabling concurrent engineering.

Our company is standardizing on Share-Point as a company-wide collaboration backbone.
For every engineering user within your organization, there may be 10-30 non-engineering user who would be better served and more able to contribute to the organization's goals by having easy access to relevant product information. ProductPoint from mcaConnect gives non-engineering users the ability to access the relevant product information they need to make better, faster decisions.

Our company is a large OEM who collaborates with smaller suppliers on designs.
Companies looking to collaborate with design partners, suppliers, and customers can use Windchill ProductPoint from mcaConnect to balance the need for providing quick easy access to the right information while not compromising any valuable intellectual property. ProductPoint offers a means to engage with external teams through an easy and quickly deployed, outside-the-firewall collaboration portal.

Our company has an active SharePoint strategy and we want our teams to be able to collaborate internally on special projects which would best be kept separate from our corporate systems.
For reasons of security or autonomy, you organization may wish to conduct special R&D activities outside of standard corporate systems by using a secure, quickly deployed, and easily administered team space that can support collaboration for CAD data. ProductPoint from mcaConnect provides this capability so that once projects are green-lighted, data can be transitioned to your company's corporate systems for complete product data management and formal change/configuration management.