ODIS Capabilities

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions from IBM can help companies innovate with relevant products that meet, even anticipate, customer demands. PLM specialists work with companies to help increase the speed and agility of their product development process while helping reduce risk. Regardless of industry or size, IBM can tailor a combination of application software, middleware, hardware and services for successful PLM implementation.

This ODIS micropractice offers expertise, new methodologies and advanced assets in PLM – such as return on investment modeling for portfolio management, innovative requirements-driven conceptual design tools and methodologies, and collaboration and integration technologies.

And who better to guide business success than IBM, one of the most innovative product development organizations in the world?

PLM specialties are focused on helping businesses improve product development processes with better tools, methodologies and collaboration.

• Collaborative PLM: Integrating collaboration tools into business processes and data provides users with the right data, processes and collaborators based on who they are and what they are trying to do.

• Conceptual design and systems engineering: A system engineering framework that brings together requirements management, conceptual design, detailed design and simulation, linked by an emerging conceptual design data model standard.

• Embedded systems and software development: IBM's software development framework defines, structures and interfaces with embedded software components to help reduce time-to-market and achieve consistent quality.

• Information integration for PLM: Provides an integrated, consistent and comprehensive source of relevant information on products to people, processes and applications.

• PLM value modeling: IBM Research has been working closely with IBM Global Business Services to develop a structured approach for diagnosing enterprise business issues and quantifying the return on investment of business transformation and other enterprise initiatives. By approaching solution implementation and business strategy together, IBM can help businesses make better decisions early in a project, allowing for more effective results.