Windchill+ SaaS PLM
Enjoy 100% of the capabilities of Windchill, plus new value enabled through software as a service (SaaS)
What is SaaS PLM Software?
SaaS PLM software takes traditional enterprise PLM with its comprehensive functional footprint and optimizes it utilizing the performance scaling of cloud computing. Users of SaaS PLM operate the same configurable workflows, strict change management tracks, and multi-level BOM management capabilities, while benefiting from predictable automated upgrades, frictionless adoption of new feature modules, and built-in enterprise security. Windchill+ represents the industry vanguard: a feature-rich PLM platform delivered entirely as a service to drive multi-enterprise collaboration and establish a fully connected, resilient Digital Thread.
PTC Partner Network
O Futuro do SaaS PLM: Alcançando as Metas mais Cobiçadas da Indústria
AIDC prevê uma forte onda de adoção do SaaS PLM nos próximos anos, impulsionada por sua capacidade única de transformar digitalmente o desenvolvimento de produtos e a manufatura.
As indústrias estão apostando no ecossistema SaaS para redefinir a experiência do cliente e acelerar a introdução de produtos inovadores no mercado através de um modelo de trabalho muito mais ágil, seguro e integrado. Neste InfoBrief, a IDC valida essa tendência com dados de pesquisas globais sobre inovação de produtos, taxas de adoção de computação em nuvem, fatores críticos de sucesso e retornos financeiros reais obtidos por líderes do setor.
“SaaS PLM is the key to product development in a disrupted, global economy—it simplifies collaboration and streamlines information to improve design, manufacturing, and support processes.”
IDC
Advantages of SaaS PLM Software
The overarching impact of SaaS PLM software is captured in one word: speed. It delivers operational agility far beyond the limits of traditional architectures.
This evolution drives immediate value for users, system administrators, and supply chain partners. Windchill+ simplifies and accelerates business, administrative, and functional workflows—resulting in faster time-to-market, enhanced innovation, and superior product quality.
Best-in-Class Cybersecurity
Full-time, dedicated threat hunting and response capabilities active across the entire application stack to continuously safeguard intellectual property.
Predictable Upgrade Cadences
Streamlined upgrade processes deployed on a predictable 18-month cycle, demanding minimal internal IT overhead or operational downtime.
Ready-to-Go on Day One
Eliminate infrastructure configuration challenges leveraging a fully established, secure deployment. Accelerate user adoption and scale functionalities while minimizing project risk.
PTC and Microsoft
Built on Microsoft Azure, Windchill+ offers a modern $PLM$ infrastructure that supercharges real-time information sharing, dynamic data visualization, and secure cross-functional collaboration. This e-book explores why top manufacturers are adopting SaaS PLM to overcome critical digital transformation challenges and harness the benefits of Windchill+ on Azure.
Introducing Windchill+
In the 2000s, PTC revolutionized global collaboration with Windchill PLM, introducing advanced connectivity, out-of-the-box functionality, and an optimized user experience. Today, the platform evolves with Windchill+, delivering the full agility and convenience of modern $SaaS$ architectures while laying the groundwork for continuous engineering innovation across the Digital Thread.
Success with SaaS PLM Software: Top Windchill+ Features
Harness the power of cloud-native deployment with Windchill+, driving enterprise product development beyond the architecture of traditional PLM systems.
Leverages the proven functional footprint of core Windchill. Accelerate organizational capabilities across enterprise change and configuration management, manufacturing engineering, MBSE/MBE, risk, quality compliance, and requirements validation.
Enterprise-Grade IT Performance: Transitioning from legacy on-premises infrastructure boosts system reliability. Benefit from frictionless user provisioning, native SSO support, on-demand automated backups, rapid bug resolution, and real-time product upgrades.
Seamless Interoperability: Ensure secure connectivity across heterogeneous enterprise architectures with industry-standard protocols (OSLC, REST, STEP), mitigating the risk of unexpected third-party integration costs.
Secure Extended Enterprise Collaboration: Onboard external users outside your corporate firewall smoothly. Spin up secure, role-based access for global suppliers, customers, or regulators to ensure real-time contributions from any geography.
Full-Stack IP & Infrastructure Protection: Secure intellectual property with world-class cloud defenses. PTC guarantees end-to-end security through elite certifications, compliance audits, continuous penetration testing, and proactive environment scanning.
Automated System Administration: Streamlined self-service tools eliminate manual administrative overhead, completely removing the friction from deployments, environment cloning, re-hosting, and vault configuration.
Success with Windchill
Here are a few examples of how your peers are realizing value from PTC’s PLM application.
Balluff
See how Balluff uses Windchill+ to achieve modern, collaborative, and secure product development.
Cellcentric
Hear how SaaS PLM is helping Cellcentric accelerate enterprise product development maturity and adoption, as well as supplier and partner collaboration.
Enersys
To meet shifting demands and rising complexities, EnerSys transitioned away from ERP-centric data management to a product lifecycle process-driven approach with Windchill in the cloud.
Trumpf Boosts Product Development with Cloud PLM
Hear how Trumpf is leveraging Windchill in the cloud to drive efficiencies across the product development process.
U.S. Navy
To modernize its acquisition and logistic support IT infrastructure the U.S. Navy selected Windchill in the cloud as the PLM backbone of it’s Model Based Product Support (MPBS) program.
Welbilt
Welbilt leverages Windchill in the cloud as the foundation for “mass customization,” embracing product diversity and collaboration to accelerate time-to-industrialization and time-to-market.
Zamil
Zamil Industrial, a leading business group that develops engineering solutions for the construction industry, is now more agile and collaborative thanks to Windchill+.
Additional Resources
Get more out of PLM with Windchill+ at OMC GROUP
Explore how you can increase PLM value across engineering, manufacturing, quality, and service with SaaS PLM.
Maximizing the impact of PLM with Windchill+
Cut through ROI delays, speed up time-to-value, and achieve greater business impact with a SaaS PLM platform like Windchill+.
PLM solution match-up: Windchill+ vs. self-hosted
Compared to self-deployed and privately hosted alternatives, Windchill+, a SaaS PLM solution, turns underlying PLM considerations into value accelerators
Frequently asked questions
Is PLM a SaaS product?
Historically, PLM remained on-premises due to complex engineering workflows, heavy customization needs, and bandwidth limitations—even as CRM and HCM systems successfully migrated to Software as a Service (SaaS). Today, cloud infrastructure advancements have shifted this paradigm. While basic cloud tools existed previously, Windchill+ is the industry’s first comprehensive, enterprise-grade PLM suite delivered entirely as a service.
How does moving to PLM SaaS impact system customizations?
While top manufacturers leverage Out-of-the-Box (OOTB) functionalities to streamline operations, certain edge cases require unique configurations. PLM SaaS delivers a balanced approach: it accommodates necessary customizations under structured development frameworks, safeguarding core code integrity and preventing the accumulation of costly technical debt.
What is the difference between Windchill and Windchill+ PLM capabilities?
Windchill and Windchill+ share a unified codebase. Consequently, every functional PLM feature available to standard Windchill users is fully accessible within Windchill+. However, Windchill+ users gain exclusive operational capabilities and deployment benefits that are inherently unique to its SaaS architecture.
What is the migration process from Windchill to Windchill+?
Transitioning to Windchill+ is a highly controlled, three-step framework:
Assess: Detailed mapping of the active Windchill infrastructure, evaluating hardware performance metrics and current custom code.
Convert: Technical standardization of legacy customizations into scalable, cloud-compatible configurations, followed by environment export, system upgrade, and formal validation.
Operate: Final execution of the live cutover (Go-Live) and seamless transition into secure, day-to-day cloud operations.
Talk to a Windchill Expert
Best-in-class organizations need a best-in-class PLM solution
Give stakeholders throughout your organization quick and easy access to product data. Windchill, PTC’s product lifecycle management solution, helps break down organizational silos leading to:
- Improved time-to-market
- Decreased costs
- Improved product quality
- More time for innovating
Windchill offers organizations the performance and scale they need to manage large data sets and with subscription pricing, you only pay for what you need.
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