You have chosen to leverage the power of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) to help your company develop products faster, at greater quality, with lower product development costs.

Now, choose to leverage the power of the Internet and NetIDEAS to minimize the costs of deploying and running PLM. See below how the NetIDEAS Services can enable the value of PLM at 20% to 50% less costs than tackling this internally.

To do this project yourself, your company will have to budget for the following items:

• Purchase or lease of server hardware.
• Annual server hardware maintenance contract.
• Internal WAN upgrade.
• IT personnel resources.
• PLM System Administrator.
• PLM Application Engineer(s).
• Training for System Administrator and Application Engineer(s).
• Oracle database software and maintenance.
• Future costs for PLM software upgrades, and server hardware upgrades.

NetIDEAS has a proven infrastructure, and PLM experts with years of experience to help you get the most from the system. This is why over 6,000 users rely on NetIDEAS every day for managing their critical product data and product development processes.

Note that, for the following example, PTC software license and maintenance costs are not included. For either scenario - the “NetIDEAS Hosted” scenario or the “Do it Yourself” scenario - appropriate software licenses and maintenance fees must be paid. For a reasonable fee, the NetIDEAS Annual ASP Fee can include software licenses and maintenance.

These graphs are intended to show the rough order of magnitude in a certain approach to PLM. Please contact NetIDEAS to have an in-depth analysis facilitated for your company and your requirements.