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by Jeff Moad, MA Editorial Staff Posted on Thursday, August 09, 2007 5:40:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | In the wake of moves by Oracle and Siemens, the business applications leader announces a three-year plan for its product lifecycle technology that keeps much of the development in-house and the product itself within the larger ERP suite.
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| Keywords: | SAP, PLM, product lifecycle management, product life cycle, roadmap, new product development, product portfolio, design collaboration, Oracle, Agile, Siemens, UGS |
Facing intensifying competitive pressure from a host of large technology providers targeting the product lifecycle management (PLM) market, SAP AG yesterday laid out its own PLM roadmap covering the next three years. SAP said the first leg of its roadmap is set to kick off at the end of this year with enhancements to the new-product portfolio planning features of its current PLM suite. The roadmap stretches through 2010, when SAP will integrate its PLM suite with popular digital manufacturing tools and allow users of its software to automate the design, simulation, and tracking of digital design and manufacturing processes, the company said. SAP's strategy announcement follows the entry into the PLM market earlier this year of two large technology providers — Siemens AG and SAP arch-rival Oracle Corp. — via acquisitions. Siemens in January announced plans to acquire PLM and CAD software provider UGS for $3.5 billion. And in May, Oracle announced plans to purchase pure-play PLM software vendor Agile for $495 million. [Click to continue] |
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