CoCreate Partners With SAP In e-Business Initiative.FORT COLLINS, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 12, 2000 Leading Collaboration and PLM (Product Life cycle Management) A comprehensive information system that coordinates all aspects of a product from initial concept to its eventual retirement. Sometimes called the "digital backbone" of a product, it includes the requirements phase, analysis and design Solutions Interface to Enable Collaborative Innovation Across the Virtual Enterprise CoCreate Software Inc., a pioneer and leader in Internet-based product development, today announced an initiative to seamlessly interface its OneSpace engineering collaboration solution with SAP(TM) Product Lifecycle Product lifecycle or product life cycle is the course of a product's sales and profits over time. The five stages of each product lifecycle are product development, introduction, growth, maturity and decline. Management (SAP PLM), an integrated business application within mySAP.com(TM) for managing the complete product lifecycle of the extended supply chain, from design and production through sales and maintenance. The interface of OneSpace with the SAP PLM solution will facilitate sharing of domain knowledge throughout the virtual enterprise and supply chain, enabling innovation within product-development environments. Users will be able to collaborate with one another in real time on 3-D models from different CAD CAD: see computer-aided design. (Computer-Aided Design) Using computers to design products. CAD systems are high-speed workstations or desktop computers with CAD software. systems over proprietary networks or the Web. Individuals in the design chain can bring together heterogeneous Not the same. Contrast with homogeneous. heterogeneous - Composed of unrelated parts, different in kind. Often used in the context of distributed systems that may be running different operating systems or network protocols (a heterogeneous network). models from different CAD systems, view them, take precise measurements, annotate annotate - annotation and modify the models. The combination makes geometric modification of the 3-D model available to all users in a consistent fashion, independent of the originating CAD system. "Collaborative engineering is the core focus of CoCreate," said Doug Johnson The name Doug Johnson may refer to the following people:
tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. that SAP is expanding the concept of collaborative engineering through this initiative. The addition of OneSpace allows companies to make better decisions by bringing together experts from different disciplines." SAP PLM provides a model for managing and communicating product knowledge through the extended supply chain by delivering a comprehensive solution for program management, life-cycle data management, change and configuration management, and life-cycle collaboration. Companies benefit by achieving greater control and accuracy over the product life cycle, bringing products to market faster, and improving product designs to better satisfy customer needs. The direct incorporation of external and internal partners enables users to speed up the development process with cost and profitability control. The seamless interface of OneSpace and SAP PLM will be available later this year and will be sold and distributed by CoCreate. OneSpace, released in 1999, marked CoCreate's expansion from conventional CAD system architecture to an entirely new product line based on open systems that introduced collaboration into the design process. OneSpace provides the critical link that enables globally dispersed dis·perse v. dis·persed, dis·pers·ing, dis·pers·es v.tr. 1. a. To drive off or scatter in different directions: The police dispersed the crowd. b. teams to collaborate in real time. About CoCreate CoCreate Software Inc. is a software subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Company. It develops mechanical computer-aided-design and product-data-management software that supports the concept of shared-space design. The software includes OneSpace for distributed, collaborative product development Collaborative Product Development (Collaborative Product Design) (CPD) is a business strategy, work process and collection of software applications that facilitates different organizations to work together on the development of a product. ; SolidDesigner for product modeling design; ME10 for 2-D design, drafting and documentation; and WorkManager for distributed, product information and process management. CoCreate solutions are known for high quality, ease of use, customization and support of industry standards. They are available in 10 languages and are installed on more than 120,000 systems in design, engineering and manufacturing organizations worldwide. Information about CoCreate Software Inc. and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.cocreate.com. SAP, mySAP.com and all SAP product and service names referenced herein are registered or unregistered trademarks of SAP AG (company) SAP AG - (Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung - German for "Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing") A company from Germany that sells the leading suite of client-server business software. The US branch is called SAP America. . |
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