Description:
PTC is one of the world's largest software companies and specializes in
collaborative product commerce solutions. These solutions help discrete
manufacturers streamline product development. Their software addresses all
areas of the product lifecycle from product planning and engineering to service
retirement, and helps manufacturers build better products faster, at lower
cost.
Business problems:
PTC needed a fast and reliable way to port a newly acquired large Windows
application (nearly two million lines of C++ code) to Solaris and other major
operating systems to meet a large customer demand and to integrate with
existing applications.
Solution:
Port PTC's ProductView to Solaris, SGI, HP and, soon, IBM operating systems
from Windows®
source-code using Mainsoft for UNIX and Linux
infrastructure.
Key Benefits:
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Ported and developed a sellable UNIX version of a large
visualization application in approximately six months, saving two years of
rewriting from scratch for UNIX.
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Decreased both development costs and on-going maintenance costs by
leveraging the Microsoft Visual Studio®
development environment and a single Windows source-code to produce a native
UNIX version.
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Acquired native UNIX performance and scalability without
compromising Windows functionality.
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Maintained a competitive advantage by meeting customer demand in
the shortest possible time.
With over 28,000 customers worldwide, PTC is the leader in providing
collaborative Internet solutions for manufacturing companies. They provide the
solutions and experience to help manufacturers confidently reshape their
business for the Internet age.
PTC had recently acquired Division, and its visualization products including
ProductView, when it looked to Mainsoft to help them with their porting
challenge. PTC has a platform independent policy and customer base that uses
both UNIX and Windows. Many of the newly acquired Division products were
Windows only and PTC needed to quickly integrate them with its "run-anywhere"
JAVA Windchill product line. PTC evaluated other porting solutions and found
that Mainsoft for UNIX and Linux, the application porting platform, offered the most
reliable way to achieve a native UNIX version of their applications from their
Windows source-code in the shortest time.
"We felt that Mainsoft was the industry leader in providing a porting solution.
Given the very critical market situation that we get stable and reliable UNIX
versions of these new products to market in the shortest time, we decided to go
with Mainsoft for UNIX and Linux," said Michael Rygol, Director DIVISION products, PTC.
About ProductView:
An effective tool for visual analysis, simulation, and real-time
design collaboration of 3D CAD models
ProductView is the premier performance graphical visualization and digital
mockup solution for the desktop designing, engineering, and planning functions
within the product development process. It provides powerful capabilities to
visualize, share, examine and understand the virtual design. Using its
individually configurable options, manufactures can extend the rich core
functionality to perform specific tasks such as simulation, authoring, human
factor studies, and styling reviews. Additionally, the program's streamlined
data preparation process supports frequent design reviews, which foster quicker
issue identification and tracking.
Maximizing product lifecycle participation with Web-based enterprise
visualization
ProductView offers information visualization capabilities that enable
enterprise collaboration by providing Web-based access to nearly any type of
information involved in the product and process lifecycle. Access to
information managed by a variety of corporate systems, viewing of a wide range
of heterogeneous product information, and markup and analysis capabilities are
all core functions. These core functions accelerate the flow of critical
product and process information throughout the enterprise.
"We selected Mainsoft as our partner because of their proven technology in
porting Widows applications to UNIX platforms," said John Busa, Vice President
of R&D, PTC. "We've been very excited about working with a company that can
provide us with a solid technology infrastructure. Mainsoft and their porting
expertise has helped us to dramatically increase our competitive advantage in
the CPC and visualization marketplace."
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