PLM Services

If simply installing an application guaranteed return on investment, everyone would do it. However, it’s never that simple. Return only materialises through real business results. And real business results originate from good business processes - both internal processes and those shared by your value chain. Processes that help you respond quickly to a rapidly changing marketplace. Anticipate your customers' needs. Get the right products to market before your competitors.

With consultants and professional staff in more than 160 countries, IBM Global Business Services (GBS) is one of the world’s largest consulting services organisations. IBM PLM Services, part of IBM GBS, is uniquely positioned to help you implement PLM to support new business processes that position your company for the future.

• Our consultants possess deep business process and industry expertise that can be translated into integrated, adaptive solutions designed to deliver bottom-line business value.
• PLM Services resources are globally deployed, spanning virtually every geographic region around the world.
• We deliver PLM solutions that impact your business throughout the product lifecycle, from concept to retirement - even for products that are in the market for as long as 30 years or more.
  

IBM PLM Services encompass portfolio planning, concept development, design, production and testing, and maintenance and support. We offer:

• Business transformation services that assist with:
  • Market planning.
  • Pipeline management.
  • Portfolio management.
  • Product change management.
  • Component/platform/asset commonality.
• Solution integration and implementation services for leading edge PLM offerings, such as ENOVIA VPLM, CATIA, eMatrix, mySAP and ENOVIA Smarteam.
• Management services that leverage the breadth and scale of IBM Global Services outsourcing capabilities to the PLM environment, and specifically address:
  • Infrastructure and application support.
  • Hosting needs.