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by Alan Alper, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Tuesday, January 09, 2007 5:06:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | Industry giant is reselling UGS's Teamcenter Express software to smaller companies in the U.S. and internationally. |
| Keywords: | IBM, UGS, Teamcenter Express, PLM, cPDM, product lifecycle management product data management |
Expanding an existing relationship, UGS Corp. yesterday disclosed that it has tapped IBM to resell collaborative product data management (cPDM) software to small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) domestically and across the globe. Under terms of the reseller arrangement, IBM will market, sell, and support UGS's Teamcenter Express software and services to SMB customers in six countries: the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and China. Unveiled 15 months ago, Teamcenter Express -- the cPDM component of the UGS Velocity Series portfolio for the mid-market -- includes preconfigured software templates for SMBs in the machinery, automotive, and aerospace and defense industries. The software can be used in multi computer-aided design environments that include UGS NX and Solid Edge CAD software as well as third-party applications from Autodesk, Dassault, and PTC. Disclosure of the deal follows the release late last year of IBM's Product Development Integration Framework (PDIF). The PDIF lays out an PLM industry ecosystem of vendors -- including UGS -- whose products use IBM's WebSphere middleware as the foundation of their service-oriented architectures. [Click to continue] |
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