Product lifecycle management that delivers high-quality products with speed

Portfolio and Project Management

Align your product portfolio with your business goals and strategies – and get the support you need for effective project management.

• Manage your projects smoothly from start to finish
• Link your strategies with project data, workflows and business processes
• Monitor your product and portfolio performance throughout the entire product lifecycle

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Portfolio and Project Management

Enterprise Project Connection

See how effective your project management can become when you have access to the right information. Discover our powerful project management software.

• Gain a holistic view of all relevant information, from one end of your company to the other
• Boost productivity by replacing manual processes with automated flows
• Take advantage of best practices gained from hundreds of projects

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Enterprise Project Connection

Comprehensive Idea Management

Bring innovative products to market faster. Rely on our idea management tools to help you solicit, collect and manage the ideas that fuel your success.

• Define your idea creation needs, solicit input and evaluate ideas more easily
• Collect, consolidate, categorise and manage ideas in one integrated system
• Get built-in support for prototypes, business cases, projects, products and more

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Comprehensive Idea Management

Manufacturing

Improve and streamline your engineering and manufacturing processes.

• Accelerate time to market with centralised manufacturing and engineering
• Drive cost-effective execution in tune with demand and compliance standards
• Ensure compliance by monitoring information flow through engineering, planning and execution

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Manufacturing

Environment, Health and Safety Management (EHS)

Efficiently manage risk and compliance across your business network with proven environment, health and safety solutions.

• Reduce risk with EHS controls and tasks embedded within our software processes
• Overcome challenges of disconnected systems with centralised EHS management
• Address compliance requirements with auditable processes and streamlined reporting

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Environment, Health and Safety (EHS)

Quality Management and Compliance

Build collaboration and sustained quality control into your quality management processes – from engineering, to manufacturing, to continuous improvement.

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Product Lifecycle Management for Small and Midsize Enterprises

Support processes – from product conception to manufacturing and service – with product lifecycle management software designed and priced for SMEs.

• Benefit from an integrated business solution designed for companies of your size
• Focus on your business while saving time and system costs
• Deliver innovative products that fulfil or create market demand

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Product Lifecycle Management for SME

Rapid-Deployment Solution for Portfolio Monitoring

Deliver profitable projects on time and on budget. Keep all your projects on track with a single solution that includes software and services.

• Identify and eliminate low-value or redundant projects
• Reduce project cost overruns and failures
• Improve status reporting and project scheduling

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Rapid-Deployment Solution for Portfolio and Project Monitoring