# Data Management and Collaboration

Data drives product development and is one of your most valuable assets. SOLIDWORKS offers scalable solutions to meet your unique needs.

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## Product Data Management

Product Data Management (PDM) focuses on organizing, centralizing, and managing product data, such as CAD files, engineering data, and design data. PDM software is available on-premise or in the cloud as a SaaS offering.

- SOLIDWORKS PDM is our flagship on-premise solution that helps engineering teams collaborate, control changes, and manage revisions and Bill of Materials (BOMs).
- Cloud Services for SOLIDWORKS – our SaaS PDM – allows you to securely store and manage data on the cloud right from SOLIDWORKS.
- SOLIDWORKS Cloud PLM Standard builds on Cloud Services to bring cross-functional BOM management and CAD-connected project planning to our users.

> In addition to realizing a 50 to 60 percent efficiency improvement in BOM generation, these data mining capabilities make it much easier and faster to order parts, saving additional time and money.

Michael Sveda

CAD Administrator | ABCO

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## Top Floor to Shop Floor

Effective and structured collaboration saves time and fosters innovation. Organizations that manage to break down departmental silos and get rid of disjointed communications tools continuously outperform their competitors.

Companies benefit by:

- Using the Share and Markup capabilities of Cloud Services for SOLIDWORKS to share 3D designs with ANYONE – directly from SOLIDWORKS.
- Getting real-time feedback and iterating on your work is as easy as sharing a link.
- Giving everyone in your organization a voice in the product development with SOLIDWORKS Collaboration Packages.
- Breaking down silos between departments and eliminating the patchwork of communication tools.

> Collaboration has become very simple and convenient. Data can be checked at any time, from anywhere, in the cloud. With these improvements, our product development period has been shortened by about 20 percent.

Dr. Sangbin Yim

CEO | Roborisen

### A Better Way to Work

Accelerate product development with streamlined collaboration that connects teams, tools, and data in one shared space.

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## Product Lifecycle Management

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a strategic process that centers on the entire lifecycle of a product from concept to manufacturing.

- Our scalable, cloud-based SOLIDWORKS PLM reduces your IT overhead and transforms your product lifecycle management into a more efficient, agile process. Only add capabilities that you need and when you need them.
- SOLIDWORKS® Manage is our on-premise PLM solution. It leverages the file management capabilities of SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional and adds powerful project, process, and item management capabilities with interactive dashboards and reports.

> Revision control minimizes errors, and our IT overhead, infrastructure, software maintenance, and future hardware investment costs are all reduced.

Nitin Raut

Director | Migma Packtron

### Worry-Free Cloud-Based PLM for SOLIDWORKS Users

Increase collaboration, improve productivity, and accelerate innovation with cloud-based PLM tools.

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## Unified Product Development Platform

At the heart of our Cloud Services and Cloud PLM lies the **3D**EXPERIENCE platform, an innovation platform that provides organizations with a holistic, real-time vision of their product development ecosystem.

- Gain control of your data and processes with one unified product development platform.
- Connect people, ideas, data and solutions in a single collaborative environment, empowering businesses to innovate and produce in entirely new ways.
- Enable everyone involved in product development to contribute to the innovation process.

> By moving our product development and manufacturing operations to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform in the cloud, we have increased productivity; eased IT, hardware, and administrative costs; improved communications; compressed workflows; and boosted innovation.

KangKyu Lee

Technical Lead | Aniai

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## Take Control of Your Product Data

Whether you're ready to move to the cloud or prefer to stay on-premise, SOLIDWORKS offers flexible solutions to help you work smarter, collaborate better, and scale with confidence.

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