When it comes to maximizing value from PLM capabilities and business process improvement, platform upgrades and integrations contribute to “connecting the dots across the digital enterprise”—from enterprise platforms to interfaces to the wider Digital Thread.
PLM upgrades are specifically important for building a foundation for enabling business transformation, improving or extending existing capabilities.
They contribute to creating a culture of resilience by leveraging continuous delivery, with tools and methods such as DevOps, SIPOC or SAFe frameworks.
3DEXPERIENCE upgrades also contribute to extending application shelf-life and providing access to the latest features from Dassault Systèmes, which is especially relevant when linking to ongoing business value realization and stability improvement.
Data migration activities are essential requirements for major upgrades, enabling legacy application retirement and master data consolidation.
Delivering business benefits across functions with regular small-step upgrades, compared to seldom major upgrades
Increasing user satisfaction, productivity and process efficiency, reduced frustration, errors and work duplication
Embedding continuous delivery, learning and process improvement in platform roadmap
Reducing customization complexity—accessing enhancements as they are released, expanding features into other business areas
Leveraging data and process mining to inform upgrade requirements and associated business case
Managing business disruption, prioritizing benefits and controlling time to value realization
Understanding the current integration landscape, master data strategies, assessing how the Digital Thread was implemented and needs to be improved going forward; adding to the current AMS scope or through the relevant PLM transformation roadmap
Monitoring, advising and aligning processes and associated platform practices, covering enterprise architecture and data architecture; focusing on how data drives value across the enterprise and organizational change readiness
Leveraging extract-transformation-load solutions to focus on integration and data migration, enabling effective upgrades and capability extensions; ensuring that they do not become barriers or constraints to future upgrades and maintenance
Modernizing the enterprise application landscape, and understanding the value of legacy data, what needs to be carried forward, migrated or uplifted, what can be archived based on data usage and quality
Building enterprise solutions that will last, adopting modern enterprise architecture, master data strategies and integration standards, including hybrid-cloud interfaces, micro-services and service-oriented architectures, etc
Looking at the big picture, beyond single platform, across PLM, ERP, MES and other platforms; understanding business storyboards and their interdependencies to leverage enterprise capabilities and interfaces
Introducing new functionalities, new process capabilities, new data traceability enhancements, leveraging industry and technology practices embedded in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform; improving customization and integration elements
