Success Stories
Windchill Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Integration
Client
Leading Aerospace Client
Area of Engagement
Integration between MS-Outlook & J2EE based Windchill ProjectLink
Business Problem
- Integrate bi-directionally MSOutlook meeting functionality with Windchill PLM - ProjectLink Meeting functionality
- Meetings mostly are context based - Product data in
- Windchill but meetings in Outlook losing context
- Leverage upon benefits provided by both the systems to the best of use
Solution Offered
- Challenges posed due to cross platform technologies - MS & J2EE
- Use of WebDAV and SOAP
- Bi-directional associatively achieved using Webservices
Benefits
- Context based meeting
- User availability data in Windchill PLM
- Minutes of meeting, agenda, comments captured for future
- references - repository creation
- Better collaboration
