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Product Lifecycle Management Solutions www.eds.com

About EDS
EDS, the leading global services company, provides strategy, imple-
mentation and hosting for clients managing the business and tech-
nology complexities of the digital economy. EDS brings together
the world’s best technologies to address critical client business
imperatives. It helps clients eliminate boundaries, collaborate in
new ways, establish their customers’ trust and continuously seek
improvement. EDS, with its management consulting subsidiary,
A.T. Kearney, serves the world’s leading companies and govern-
ments in 58 countries. EDS reported revenues of $19.2 billion
in 2000. The company’s stock is traded on the New York Stock
Exchange (NYSE: EDS) and the London Stock Exchange. Learn
more at www.eds.com.

About product lifecycle management solutions

EDS is the market leader in product lifecycle management
(PLM), providing solutions to the global 1000. Product lifecycle
management enables all the people who participate in a
manufacturer's product lifecycle to work in concert to develop,
deliver and support best-in-class products. As the only single-
source provider of PLM software and services, EDS can transform
the product lifecycle process into true competitive advantage,
delivering leadership improvements in product innovation,
quality, time to market and end-customer value.

Americas
13690 Riverport Drive
Maryland Heights, Missouri 63043
USA
800-498-5351
Fax 314-264-8900

Europe
Norwich House Knoll Road
Camberley, Surrey GU15 3SY
United Kingdom
44-1276-705151
Fax 44-1276-705150

Asia-Pacific
Suite 1701, Cheung Kong Center
2 Queen’s Road Central
Hong Kong
852-2230-3333
Fax 852-2230-3200 Teamcenter™ Product Management
Leveraging Product Knowledge to Maximize Collaboration Across Your Value Chain

EDS, Unigraphics, Parasolid, Solid Edge, and Femap are registered marks, the EDS logo is a registered service mark, Experteam is a service mark, and
Teamcenter and Imageware are trademarks of Electronic Data Systems Corporation. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered marks of
their respective owners. EDS is an equal opportunity employer and values the diversity of its people. Copyright © 2001 Electronic Data Systems Corporation.
All rights reserved. 11/2001

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Table of Contents Teamcenter Solution Suite

Introducing Teamcenter Product Management
Value of Your Product Knowledge
Key Advantages
Delivering Bottom Line Results
Teamcenter Solution Suite
3 Teamcenter Product Management is more than a
3 solution for managing your product knowledge.
4 It is part of Teamcenter – a breakthrough system
that addresses the needs of all of the stages in your
6
product lifecycle – from requirements gathering
7
through in-service support. Other Teamcenter solu-
tions include:
• Teamcenter Requirements Management
• Teamcenter Project Management
• Teamcenter Engineering Collaboration
• Teamcenter Digital Manufacturing
• Teamcenter Visualization
• Teamcenter Community
• Teamcenter Collaboration Foundation
• Teamcenter Enterprise Integration
Teamcenter solutions can be implemented
quickly and cost effectively by EDS’ professional
Experteam Services.
Contact your EDS sales representative today to
learn more about these product lifecycle solutions
and their ability to turn your company’s most strate-
gic e-business initiatives into real-world results.

In today’s digital economy, companies that offer

discretely manufactured products have to compete
in demanding marketplaces. Customers want – and
expect – the timely delivery of quality products that
reflect innovative features and affordable price tags.
How is your company going to establish market
leadership in this kind of highly competitive setting?
EDS believes the answer lies in the ability of your
extended value chain to collaborate in bringing your
products to market and continuing their support
across entire product lifecycles.
Everyone in your extended enterprise has to
actively collaborate to ensure the success of your
product offerings. New players have to join your
value chain. New sources of product knowledge
have to be added to your company’s intellectual
capital. New voices have to be reflected in your
product decisions. New processes have to be built
to accelerate your take-to-market schedules and
minimize your product realization costs.

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Introducing Teamcenter
Product Management
To address these objectives, EDS offers Teamcenter
Product Management – the world’s most powerful
web-native system for enabling all of the participants
in your extended value chain to manage, share,
and leverage product knowledge across your prod-
uct lifecycle.
Teamcenter Product Management is part of
Teamcenter – the world’s market-leading system for
performing product lifecycle management (PLM)
on a collaborative basis.
Simply put, product lifecycle management is the abili-
ty of extended enterprises – comprised of dispersed
users and diverse data types – to effectively plan, exe-
cute, monitor, and optimize all of the stages in a
product lifecycle.
Teamcenter Product Management works in
conjunction with a web-native infrastructure that
enables you to capture your enterprise’s dispersed
product information and manage it in a controlled
repository.
Teamcenter Product Management provides the
following solutions to enable you to turn your cap-
tured product information into a product-centric
context and leverage this product knowledge for
decision support and process automation.
• Parts and Document Management is a web-native
solution that captures your enterprise’s dis-
persed product information as parts and
documents. Once you define these parts and
documents within a hierarchical product struc-
ture, you can re-use this product knowledge
across your product lifecycles.
• Rapid Change Management is a web-native solu-
tion that establishes a single-stage change
process you can use to initiate, administer,
review/approve, and execute product change
on a collaborative basis.
• Extended Enterprise is a web-native knowledge
user interface that exposes your enterprise’s
parts, documents, and product changes to your
users from focused, job-oriented perspectives.
Value of Your Product
Knowledge
Teamcenter Product Management provides your
value chain with real-time, immediate access to a
single source of product knowledge that is capable
of supporting your entire product lifecycle.
By capturing diverse product information that is
physically scattered across your value chain’s data
sources and turning it into product knowledge,
Teamcenter Product Management enables you to:
• Align your product content with targeted mar-
ket requirements.
• Provide all of the participants in your product
lifecycles with the same set of product defini-
tions and design assumptions.
• Base your product decisions on the lessons you
have learned by analyzing and evaluating your
product knowledge.
• Create new techniques and new methodolo-
gies by drawing best practices from your
accumulated product knowledge.
• Perform your take-to-market tasks in parallel
follow-the-sun processes, instead of relying on
time-consuming serial sequences.
• Eliminate the misunderstandings and rework
that often plague new product initiatives.
• Consistently and repeatedly manage product
change across your product lifecycles.
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Key Advantages
Teamcenter Product Management delivers state-of-the-market advantages that are unsurpassed in terms of
their ability to optimize your product knowledge and apply it to your strategic business initiatives.
State-of-the-Market Advantages
Value-Chain Collaboration
Workflow Automation
Out-of-the-Box Solutions
4
Teamcenter Product Management’s “smart” user interfaces make
it easy for people inside and outside of your company to partici-
pate in your value chain. Roles-based interfaces present entitled
users with selected pieces of product knowledge that match their
assigned responsibilities. Knowledge users can request the product
information they need to perform their jobs – without having to
understand the underlying details of your web-native infrastruc-
ture. Teamcenter Product Management provides both push and
pull capabilities to allow all of the participants in your value chain
to react more quickly to your business needs and compress your
time-to-market. Users can quickly and easily locate information
created by other value-chain participants and view it in a product-
centric context. In addition, Teamcenter Product Management
can automatically notify users when design changes occur, when
they need to participate in a decision-making process, or when
they have to execute a particular work task.
Teamcenter Product Management enables you to establish
standardized business processes that maximize your value chain’s
ability to collaborate across your product lifecycle. You implement
consistent and repeatable processes that reflect your best practices
and optimize the productivity of all of the people in your extended
value chain. Teamcenter Product Management protects the securi-
ty of your collaborative environment while minimizing the
disruption that can impact your processes when personnel or
user roles change. Your managers can leverage Teamcenter Prod-
uct Management’s real-time status tracking, verification, and
auditing capabilities to quantitatively measure the efficiency of
your automated processes.
Teamcenter Product Management provides a series of web-native
out-of-the-box solutions, including Parts and Document Manage-
ment, Rapid Change Management, and Extended Enterprise.
EDS has built customer-proven best practices into these solutions
to reduce your time to value and maximize your return on invest-
ment. These best practices enable you to rapidly get your user
communities up and running with little or no customization. They
help ensure the user acceptance you need to make your solutions
a real-world success. They reduce the risk you would incur if you
had to develop this software from scratch.
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Ease of Configuration
Universal On-Demand Access
Standards-Based Security
You can easily configure Teamcenter Product Management to meet
your enterprise’s business needs. Web-native configuration allows
you to vary the interactive screens that comprise Teamcenter Prod-
uct Management’s user interfaces and add new screens to these
interfaces at your discretion. Dynamic interface configuration lets
you vary what product information each user is allowed to see and
how the user is permitted to interact with this information. Prede-
fined system preferences determine the style of the web pages that
are displayed for individual users. Teamcenter Product Manage-
ment’s configuration capabilities are easy to administer. They can
be quickly learned by the same people who manage the web facili-
ties you already have in place.
Users can access Teamcenter Product Management at anytime
from anywhere. Users can employ virtually any kind of web-accessi-
ble device including mobile laptops, personal data assistants, and
wireless phones. All of your value-chain participants can access the
same base of product knowledge using familiar web browsers,
regardless of where they reside or what viewing devices they employ.
Users access Teamcenter Product Management through an indus-
try-standard allied-partner security model. This model enforces
legal boundaries between the integrated product information
you extract from different sources in your value chain. The model
protects your product information by controlling user access on
the basis of security clearances and entitlements granted to individ-
ual users, user roles, teams, groups, and projects. Teamcenter
Product Management supports the standard HTTPS protocol to
protect the delivery of web-based product information across fire-
wall boundaries.
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Delivering Bottom Line Results

In today’s competitive landscape, your value chain
needs to outperform your competitors and their
allied partners across the entire product lifecycle.
You and your allies have to bring your products
to market faster than your competitors. Your supply
chain has to integrate parts and components into
your products more efficiently than their suppliers.
Your support groups have to maintain and service
your products better than their support groups.
Teamcenter Product Management enables you
to create the collaborative business models you
need to establish these competitive advantages.
• Teamcenter Product Management lets you
design your products anywhere, using the skills
of your own organizations, as well as the tal-
ents of external development houses.
• Teamcenter Product Management enables
you to build your products anywhere, leverag-
ing parts provided by in-house sources as well
as parts procured from outside suppliers.
• Teamcenter Product Management allows
you to maintain, support, and continue your
product from anywhere, drawing services
from organizations that are best equipped to
satisfy your customer base regardless of their
physical residence.
Teamcenter Product Management does this by
augmenting your product knowledge with intellec-
tual capital you’ve never had access to before.
Teamcenter Product Management injects this
knowledge into your take-to-market processes. It
makes certain these intellectual assets are able to
deliver tangible business results.
Teamcenter Product Management opens your
product knowledge to remote users, nomadic work-
ers, and your manufacturing shop floor. It delivers
your product knowledge to individuals, teams, pro-
ject managers, downstream participants in your
product lifecycle, and allied partners who previously
could not collaborate this closely with you.
Teamcenter Product Management sees to it that
the right product information is delivered to the
right people at the right time.
Keeping these concepts in mind, Teamcenter
Product Management delivers strategic advantages
that directly translate into bottom line results.

Bottom-Line Advantages
Compresses your product lifecycle by enabling all your value chain participants to engage in the earliest
stages of product design/development

Provides your web environment with a product-centric framework.

Draws on the experience of your suppliers and trusted customers.

Facilitates the re-use of designs, parts, documents, and other types of product information created by
you and your allied partners.

Enables your value chain to communicate faster and react more quickly to rising business opportunities.

Minimizes design rework.

Enables you to rapidly execute your take-to-market tasks in an extended value chain.

Enables you to execute more take-to-market tasks in parallel.

Informs users who participate in your value chain about their task-related dependencies.

Involves downstream players in your early design stages.

Addresses identified design issues on a proactive basis.

Informs your value chain about your business assumptions.

Provides your value chain with aligned product definitions, product requirements, delivery timelines,
and enterprise business rules.

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Product Lifecycle Management Solutions www.eds.com

About EDS
EDS, the leading global services company, provides strategy, imple-
mentation and hosting for clients managing the business and tech-
nology complexities of the digital economy. EDS brings together
the world’s best technologies to address critical client business
imperatives. It helps clients eliminate boundaries, collaborate in
new ways, establish their customers’ trust and continuously seek
improvement. EDS, with its management consulting subsidiary,
A.T. Kearney, serves the world’s leading companies and govern-
ments in 58 countries. EDS reported revenues of $19.2 billion
in 2000. The company’s stock is traded on the New York Stock
Exchange (NYSE: EDS) and the London Stock Exchange. Learn
more at www.eds.com.

About product lifecycle management solutions

EDS is the market leader in product lifecycle management
(PLM), providing solutions to the global 1000. Product lifecycle
management enables all the people who participate in a
manufacturer's product lifecycle to work in concert to develop,
deliver and support best-in-class products. As the only single-
source provider of PLM software and services, EDS can transform
the product lifecycle process into true competitive advantage,
delivering leadership improvements in product innovation,
quality, time to market and end-customer value.

Americas
13690 Riverport Drive
Maryland Heights, Missouri 63043
USA
800-498-5351
Fax 314-264-8900

Europe
Norwich House Knoll Road
Camberley, Surrey GU15 3SY
United Kingdom
44-1276-705151
Fax 44-1276-705150

Asia-Pacific
Suite 1701, Cheung Kong Center
2 Queen’s Road Central
Hong Kong
852-2230-3333
Fax 852-2230-3200 Teamcenter™ Product Management
Leveraging Product Knowledge to Maximize Collaboration Across Your Value Chain

EDS, Unigraphics, Parasolid, Solid Edge, and Femap are registered marks, the EDS logo is a registered service mark, Experteam is a service mark, and
Teamcenter and Imageware are trademarks of Electronic Data Systems Corporation. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered marks of
their respective owners. EDS is an equal opportunity employer and values the diversity of its people. Copyright © 2001 Electronic Data Systems Corporation.
All rights reserved. 11/2001

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Benefits
Teamcenter™ Product Management: Enables value chains
to share same product
Extended Enterprise knowledge and business
assumptions.
Collaborating with your value chain across your product lifecycles Lets you concentrate in-
house resources on fun-
tions you do best.

It is no longer enough for you to outperform your Enables you to assign

The competitive advantage other tasks to allied
direct competitors on a one-to-one basis. In today’s Extended Enterprise’s product-centric user partners.
digital economy, you have to manage your product interface makes it easy for people both inside and Reflects voice-of-customer
lifecycles in close collaboration with your entire outside of your company to participate in your in product decisions.
value chain. value chain. Knowledge users are able to obtain Ensures value chain
is using most current
the product information they need to perform product data.
What is Extended Enterprise? job-related tasks – without having to understand Enables value chain to
TeamcenterTM Product Management empowers your the underlying details of your collaborative communicate faster.
value chain by providing a web-native knowledge environment. Disseminates product
user interface called Extended Enterprise. This Users can quickly and easily locate product changes systematically.
interface enables users to consume and actively information created by other value-chain partici- Allows new partners to
rapidly join value chain.
employ product knowledge that is created by pants and view it in a business context that’s
Accelerates product
your value chain’s information authors and con- tailored to their job functions and experiences. development.
trolled/managed by a Teamcenter repository. Users can be notified automatically when design Engages downstream
Extended Enterprise lets knowledge users lever- changes occur, when their participation in a deci- players in early design
age conventional web browsers to: sion-making process is required, or when they need stages.
• Search and locate product information that to execute a particular work task. Minimizes rework.
is dispersed across your collaborative Extended Enterprise’s universal on-demand Proactively identifies
design problems.
Teamcenter environment. access enables knowledge users to request and view
• Participate in workflow-driven change product information at anytime from anywhere. Fe a t u r e s
processes. Users can employ virtually any kind of web-acces- Enables users to leverage
sible device – including mobile laptops, personal your wealth of product
Business value data assistants, and wireless phones. data.
In today’s digital economy, you have to marshal the Extended Enterprise takes advantage of Team- Provides seamless views
talents and product knowledge of your company’s to product requirements,
center Product Management’s extensive security definitions, changes,
own diverse and widely dispersed organizations provisions. Users access product information timelines, rules, and
and combine these resources with the skills, exper- retained in your environment’s repository through dependencies.
tise, and perspectives provided by your suppliers, an industry-standard, allied-partner security model. Exposes users to focused
product knowledge
business partners, and trusted customers. This model enforces legal boundaries between securely.
Extended Enterprise’s product-centric user inter- the product information you extract from different Leverages user roles and
face lets knowledge users quickly navigate and sources in your value chain. The model also pro- project authorizations.
search through the highly diverse product informa- tects your repository’s information by controlling Provides highly flexible
tion that resides throughout your web environment. user search and
user access on the basis of security clearances and
navigation.
The interface leverages predefined business entitlements that relate to individual users, user
Enables users to
rules and user roles to deliver “focused” product roles, teams, groups and projects. review/approve product
information to individual users based on their need- changes.
to-know, job-related responsibilities, and
security-related entitlements.
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Te c h n i c a l B r i e f Questions & Answers

Teamcenter Product Management’s protect the delivery of web-based product What enterprise tier platforms
support of the standard HTTPS protocol information across firewall boundaries. are supported?
enables your collaborative environment to IBM AIX
SGI IRIX
A closer look at Extended Enterprise HP HP-UX
Knowledge users employ the Extended Extended Enterprise enables users to Sun SOLARIS
Enterprise interface to locate product participate in workflow-driven processes. Microsoft Windows NT/2000
information created by authors who You establish business rules and assign
employ the following Teamcenter Product user roles for given processes. These What web application servers
Management solutions: processes automatically notify selected are supported?
• Parts and Document Management users when specific types of events occur BEA WebLogic
• Rapid Change Management (e.g., when changes are made to particular IBM WebSphere
Users locate product information documents or part designs). What databases are supported?
by specifying part numbers, part/product You can tailor your Extended Enterprise Oracle
attributes, and document-related content solution to enable entitled knowledge users Microsoft SQL Server
strings. They can also use hierarchical to view, markup, route, and print product
product structures to navigate the information that appears in universally What web browsers are
relationships that exist among your viewable format. supported?
products’ parts/components. This allows Microsoft Internet Explorer
knowledge users to quickly find the prod- Netscape Navigator
uct information they need to perform
their jobs efficiently.

Introducing Teamcenter Product Management

Teamcenter Product Management provides the following web-native solutions to enable
information authors and knowledge users to work with an enterprise’s dispersed product
information through a controlled repository.
• Parts and Document Management captures your enterprise’s dispersed product infor-
mation as parts and documents. Once you define these parts and documents within a
hierarchical product structure, you can re-use this product knowledge across your
product lifecycle.
• Rapid Change Management establishes a single-stage change process that you can
leverage to initiate, administer, review/approve, and execute product change on a
collaborative basis.
• Extended Enterprise exposes your enterprise’s parts, documents, and product changes
to your value chain’s knowledge users from focused, job-oriented perspectives.

Contact
PLM Solutions
Americas
800-498-5351
Europe
44-1276-705151
Asia-Pacific
852-2230-3333
www.eds.com

EDS, Unigraphics, Parasolid, Solid Edge, and Femap are registered marks, the EDS logo is a registered service mark, Experteam is a service mark, and
Teamcenter and Imageware are trademarks of Electronic Data Systems Corporation. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered marks of
their respective owners. EDS is an equal opportunity employer and values the diversity of its people. Copyright © 2001 Electronic Data Systems Corporation.
All rights reserved. 11/2001

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Benefits
Teamcenter™ Product Management: Provides your web envi-
ronment with a product-
Parts and Document Management centric business context.
Enables you to align
Turning dispersed information into reusable product knowledge design content with
market requirements.
Minimizes misundestand-
ings/rework that often
How is your company going to establish market The competitive advantage plague new product
leadership in today’s highly competitive Parts and Document Management enables you to initiatives.
digital economy? establish a single source of product knowledge that Enables you to base your
EDS believes the answer lies in your ability to your enterprise’s user communities can access on a product decisions on
lessons learned.
take advantage of your company’s most valuable universal basis. Users can issue a single request –
Allows you to execute
business asset – your product knowledge. via their web browsers – to find and access the most your take-to-market
To enable you to identify, capture, control, and recent product information that is available across processes in highly effi-
optimize your intellectual capital in its most tangi- cient parallel sequences
your enterprise.
rather than serial
ble and valuable form, EDS offers TeamcenterTM This single source of product knowledge allows sequences.
Product Management – the world’s most powerful thousands of knowledge users to share your product
system for managing product knowledge. knowledge even when its underlying data was cre- Fe a t u r e s
ated by thousands of authors employing scores of Enables you to establish
What is Parts and Document different application systems. a single source of web-
based product knowledge.
Management? EDS has built customer-proven best practices
Deployable out-of-the-box.
All Teamcenter Product Management implementa- into Parts and Document Management to enable
Manages parts/documents
tions start with Parts and Document Management – you to quickly define your products in terms of their in hierarchical product
a web-native solution that enables you to transform hierarchical parts and related documents. These best structures.
your enterprise’s isolated pieces of product infor- practices accelerate your solution’s time-to-value Seamlessly integrates
mation into tangible product knowledge. MS/Office.
and increase your return on investment.
Parts and Document Management allows you to Accommodates standard
Parts and Document Management is seamlessly
authoring templates.
structure your product knowledge into a business integrated with Microsoft Office. Information
Allows you to implement
context that identifies the parts and documents you authors who use Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and product-centric workflows.
can access, manage, change, and share across your Excel can check documents in and out of Parts and Provides versatile check
product lifecycles. Document Management by using pull-down menus in/check out.
embedded within their Microsoft Office applica- Supports universal docu-
Business value ment viewing, markup,
tions. Your information authors do not need to leave routing, and printing.
Parts and Document Management allows you to: their MS/Office applications – or learn anything Provides extensive security
• Provide a single point of access to your enter- about Teamcenter – to enter product documents into protections.
prise’s widely dispersed and highly diverse your enterprise repository.
product information. Parts and Document Management takes advan-
• Transform these otherwise isolated informa- tage of Teamcenter Product Management’s exten-
tion assets into reusable product structure sive security provisions. Your captured product
definitions. information is retained in a controlled repository
• Inject your product knowledge into workflow that leverages an industry-standard, allied-partner
processes you can use to expedite your security model.
product lifecycles.
• Provide view and markup capabilities to the
knowledge users who collaborate in your
work flow processes.
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A closer look at Parts and Document Management
Parts and Document Management provides
the following major functional capabilities.
Document/Data Management. Parts and
Document Management enables you to
manage your enterprise’s product informa-
tion through a controlled repository. Users
“release” documents and product data ini-
tially created under dispersed application
systems by registering this information in
Teamcenter Product Management and
making it available for enterprise access.
Check-in, check-out, and version con-
trols reflect continuing changes made by
your enterprise’s information authors –
while systematically providing up-to-date
and accurate product information to your
knowledge users whenever they request it.
Product Structure Definition. Parts and
Document Management enables you to
establish hierarchical product structures
that provide a product-centric business
context for the information you manage.
Typically, you start by defining a hierarchy
of business objects that pertain to a given
product. For example, you could create
a product structure comprised of compo-
nents, parts, sub-assemblies, and
assemblies that are associated with an
overall product.
Once this product structure is in place,
you can define the logical relationships
What enterprise tier platforms
that exist between specific pieces of prod- are supported?
uct information (such as documents, IBM AIX
drawings, validation models, and test SGI IRIX
results) and the elements in the product HP HP-UX
structure that they describe. Parts and Doc- Sun SOLARIS
ument Management is adept at allowing Microsoft Windows NT/2000
you to establish one-to-many, many-to-
What web application servers
one, and many-to-many relationships
are supported?
among your product information.
BEA WebLogic
Workflow-Driven Processes. Parts and
IBM WebSphere
Document Management enables you to
establish repeatable workflows that reflect What databases are supported?
your company’s product-related business Oracle
rules and decision-making processes. Microsoft SQL Server
These workflows allow all of the people
who have a stake in product realization to What web browsers are
participate in the creation, review, and supported?
approval of your product information. Microsoft Internet Explorer
You establish user roles to determine Netscape Navigator
who is entitled to participate in your work-
flow processes and what product infor-
mation they are authorized to access. You
incorporate business rules into these work-
flows so product information can be
routed, reviewed, and approved in accor-
dance with your company’s existing
policies and procedures. Teamcenter Prod-
uct Management’s tracking and auditing
capabilities provide complete histories for
the processes you implement.

Introducing Teamcenter Product Management

Teamcenter Product Management provides the following web-native solutions to enable
information authors and knowledge users to work with an enterprise’s dispersed product
information through a controlled repository.
Contact
• Parts and Document Management captures your enterprise’s dispersed product infor-
mation as parts and documents. Once you define these parts and documents within a PLM Solutions
hierarchical product structure, you can re-use this product knowledge across your Americas
product lifecycle. 800-498-5351
• Rapid Change Management establishes a single-stage change process that you can Europe
leverage to initiate, administer, review/approve, and execute product change on a 44-1276-705151
collaborative basis.
Asia-Pacific
• Extended Enterprise exposes your enterprise’s parts, documents, and product changes
852-2230-3333
to your value chain’s knowledge users from focused, job-oriented perspectives.
www.eds.com

EDS, Unigraphics, Parasolid, Solid Edge, and Femap are registered marks, the EDS logo is a registered service mark, Experteam is a service mark, and
Teamcenter and Imageware are trademarks of Electronic Data Systems Corporation. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered marks of
their respective owners. EDS is an equal opportunity employer and values the diversity of its people. Copyright © 2001 Electronic Data Systems Corporation.
All rights reserved. 11/2001

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Benefits
Teamcenter™ Product Management: Enables you to improve
your products faster than
Rapid Change Management your competition.
Enables you to better
Accelerating product change on a consistent and repeatable basis respond to marketplace
dynamics.
Expedites simple product
Many leading companies believe they can thrive in to support product change – with a single solution. change.

today’s dynamic markets by continually improving Your integrated solution enables you to consoli- Integrates your value
chain into your change
their products at a pace that outperforms their busi- date your costs, streamline your change process, processes.
ness rivals. minimize your change-related rework, and coordi- Enables you to understand
nate the change tasks performed across your the business case that jus-
What is Rapid Change Management? tifies a proposed change.
extended enterprise.
Teamcenter™ Product Management provides a web- EDS incorporates customer-proven best prac- Allows you to evaluate the
task-related impact of
native solution called Rapid Change Management tices into Rapid Change Management. These best proposed changes.
that enables you to continuously improve your prod- practices provide an out-of-the-box solution that Ensures adherence to
ucts – across an entire lifecycle – in a consistent and accelerates your time-to-value and maximizes corporate standards and
repeatable manner. business rules.
the return on your investment. The solution’s best
Rapid Change Management allows you to insti- Enables you to establish
practices enable you to create, administer, and
continual improvement
tute a single-stage change process to accelerate your manage closed loop processes that account for loops for your change
take-to-market cycles. It enables you to initiate, changes in design intent and trace all dependencies processes.
administer, review/approve, and execute product and decisions.
changes through a single change request. Fe a t u r e s
You can leverage Rapid Change Management’s
Enables product change
closed loop model, real-time tracking, and detailed
to be managed, planned,
Business value metrics to ensure the accuracy of your change executed, and tracked on
By applying Rapid Change Management’s best packages and enhance their visibility. This combi- a fine-grain basis.
practices and automated processes, your company nation of capabilities allows you to make certain Facilitates a single-stage
will be able to accelerate its take-to-market “clock- change process.
that all of the work tasks associated with your
speed” and introduce strategic product innovations Leverages one change
product changes are actually performed and that item – the change request –
faster than your competition. they conform to your company’s standards and for your entire change
Rapid Change Management enables you to business rules. process.
understand the business implications associated Rapid Change Management enables you to Incorporates a business
case, impact analysis,
with introducing new products and improving take advantage of roles-based change processes to implementation plan, relat-
their content. ensure that the “right” people in your extended ed items, and task assign-
Rapid Change Management automates the enterprise make decisions or perform assigned ments in a single change
request.
review processes associated with planning proposed work tasks on a timely basis. The solution’s roles-
Utilizes streamlined work
product change. It expedites the fine-grain imple- based capabilities automatically present change breakdown structures.
mentation of approved changes. It tracks the exe- implementers with a user interface that matches Dynamically presents
cution of your change-related tasks and enables you their assigned change tasks. change participants with a
to roll these results into auditable change histories. “smart” user interface.
Rapid Change Management is seamlessly inte-
Supports fast-track review/
grated with all of the solutions that comprise
approval.
The competitive advantage Teamcenter Product Management. Your change
Automatically distributes
Rapid Change Management facilitates integrated solution is able to take advantage of the product your change requests.
product change. This allows you to replace the structure definitions you establish under Parts and Provides real-time status
piecemeal systems – that you currently maintain tracking, verification,
and auditing.
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Document Management. This enables
you to:
• Evaluate the impact of individual
product changes.
• Create streamlined work breakdown
structures that you can inject into
your implementation plan.
• Audit the execution and completion
of assigned work tasks.
A closer look at Rapid Change Management
Users initiate Rapid Change Management
by creating a change request that incorpo-
rates the business case for adopting the
product change along with a proposed
implementation plan.
The change request identifies the
impacts of the proposed product change.
These impacts describe what documents
and designs have to be changed to support
the improvement in question.
Users can include a streamlined work
breakdown structure in the change request.
This breakdown structure consists of a
single set of work tasks that have to be
executed to complete the specified change.
Approval of the change request autho-
rizes work to begin on the execution of
specific product changes. Fast-track
review/approval is supported as an option.
This enables empowered change analysts
to approve the change request without
going through a change review board.
• Notify users when assigned change What enterprise tier platforms
tasks need to be expedited. are supported?
• Provide a complete history of IBM AIX
product changes executed during SGI IRIX
the product lifecycle. HP HP-UX
• Track both planned and actual impacts Sun SOLARIS
to the product information associated Microsoft Windows NT/2000
with your proposed changes.
What web application servers
are supported?
BEA WebLogic
IBM WebSphere
Once the change request is approved,
the change request is forwarded – along What databases are supported?
with its approved implementation plan – to Oracle
appropriate change implementers. Change Microsoft SQL Server
analysts can monitor the progress of given
product changes by examining the status of What web browsers are
individual tasks and determining whether supported?
or not they have been closed. Microsoft Internet Explorer
During the execution of a given product Netscape Navigator
change, Rapid Change Management
enables you to update appropriate incorpo-
ration dates or units of the change without
disrupting the integrity of your change
package or imposing a further review.
When all tasks associated with a product
change have been closed, change adminis-
ters can double check the implementation
of the change and generate reports – con-
taining appropriate metrics – before closing
the change request in question.

Introducing Teamcenter Product Management

Teamcenter Product Management provides the following web-native solutions to enable
information authors and knowledge users to work with an enterprise’s dispersed product
information through a controlled repository. Contact
• Parts and Document Management captures your enterprise’s dispersed product infor- PLM Solutions
mation as parts and documents. Once you define these parts and documents within a
hierarchical product structure, you can re-use this product knowledge across your Americas
product lifecycle. 800-498-5351

• Rapid Change Management establishes a single-stage change process that you can Europe
leverage to initiate, administer, review/approve, and execute product change on a 44-1276-705151
collaborative basis. Asia-Pacific
• Extended Enterprise exposes your enterprise’s parts, documents, and product changes 852-2230-3333
to your value chain’s knowledge users from focused, job-oriented perspectives. www.eds.com

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