DEVELOP3D - Technology for the product lifecycle

It was with some fanfare and a great deal of hubbub that PTC launched its SharePoint-based Windchill ProductPoint a couple of years ago (it shipped in April of 2009). Now, a scant two years later, the company is retiring the product from its price list.

Personally, this is something of a disappointment. SharePoint is becoming ubiquitous in many organisations. Any company that’s managing data in a smaller work-group environment is probably looking at it as a means of sharing and collaborating around documents. What ProductPoint did, like similar functionality built into Solid Edge Insight by Siemens (which predated PTC’s offering by a good few years), is add a layer of tools that gave SharePoint the ability to understand and manage the more complex data interrelations between CAD parts, assemblies and drawings. To me that was a compelling choice as a first step onto the data management ladder.

But it appears to be no more and to find out more, we got in touch with Tom Shoemaker, VP of product marketing at PTC.

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