Product category:
3D CAD software
News Release from: CoCreate Software
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 01 March 2005
Microsoft programme encourages
collaboration
CoCreate Software has joined Microsoft's Programme for Collaborative Product Development (CPD).
CoCreate Software has joined Microsoft's Programme for Collaborative Product Development (CPD) The programme, targeted at enterprise and mid-market manufacturers, helps companies employ collaborative product development processes
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 29 Jun 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The CPD Programme helps industry-leading software vendors develop Microsoft-based solutions for product lifecycle management (PLM).
The programme delivers industry-specific solutions to manufacturers in automotive, consumer packaged goods, high technology and other markets.
Each individualised solution provides a flexible, scalable and reliable platform to the enterprise so businesses can integrate operations with partners and suppliers, acquire and share intelligence in real time and more easily communicate with customers.
"Collaborative product development brings the knowledge and expertise of the entire organisation into product development, allowing manufacturing companies to introduce better products at a lower cost by utilising more efficient manufacturing techniques", said Bill Gerould, Worldwide Discrete Manufacturing Industry Manager at Microsoft.
"Microsoft's CPD programme helps generate an ecosystem of solutions, such as CoCreate's OneSpace.net, that are built on Microsoft technology to enable improved communication and collaboration across the manufacturing enterprise".
OneSpace.net brings a unique and powerful concept to PLM called "federation".
With federation, product development teams access information that resides in multiple places or enterprise systems from a single location.
This allows product development team members both internal and external to the company to seamlessly access the most current version of information from a single location for faster and better decision making.
The Programme for Collaborative Product Development includes leading PLM solution providers, all of whom are delivering solutions and services that address collaborative product development challenges and use Microsoft technologies such as Windows Server 2003, BizTalk Server 2004, SQL Server 2000, and Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003.
"Collaboration is driving the innovation cycle in design, manufacturing and engineering".
"Companies see collaborative product development as a direct path to improve top line revenue growth", said William M Gascoigne, CoCreate CEO.
"Microsoft's Programme for Collaborative Product Development represents a natural fit between CoCreate's expertise and Microsoft's platform".
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