Use Teamcenter for Community Collaboration software to bring together various participants across companies, firewalls, time zones, and even systems in a web-based, collaborative environment. This will help maximize product data value and allow for higher innovation potential. Community Collaboration encourages global teaming by connecting every user’s desktop. By doing this, enterprises can ensure they make the right decisions every time, which will lead to avoiding rework, reducing costs, and it will help get products to market faster.
Teamcenter Community Collaboration
Community Collaboration is a web-based collaboration environment that extends the reach of Teamcenter product lifecycle collaboration capabilities to everyone in the extended enterprise. It allows its users to enhance their key business initiatives for revenue growth:
- New product development (and introduction–NPDI):
Capture and automate knowledge to maximize success in current and future product and process development
- Knowledge/intellectual property management:
Integrate people and processes to link key customer requirements with the functional execution and management of programs to design, simulate, validate and manufacture innovative products
- Value chain synchronization (global product development, supplier collaboration):
Maximize the performance of your value chain by leveraging ideas and information from all phases of the product lifecycle
Community Collaboration requirements
- Teamcenter for Community Collaboration was developed to operate in the Microsoft Office business environment:
- Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP1 or R2
- Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SP4 or 2005
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
- Internet Information Server (IIS) 6.0
Community Collaboration benefits
- Increase innovation by securely linking people with each other and diverse sources of product knowledge for better and faster product-related decisions
- Reduce the costs associated with arranging meetings for design reviews and iterations
- Maximize team efficiency and productivity by using dynamic processes and teams to enable enterprise-wide collaboration on product data from simple documents to rich 3D product data
- Leverage existing IT strategy and investments for rapid deployment, reducing risk for rapid ROI