Maximum impact: Three secrets to PLM on the cloud
November 17, 2020
November 17, 2020
Manufacturers understand the benefits of adopting Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) on the cloud—especially in today’s environment where cloud-based solutions have proven to provide enterprise systems the business agility they need. Yet when it comes to PLM on the cloud, many are leaving value unrealized. Find out three actions to help ensure that the PLM on the cloud delivers value for both IT and for the business.
By Matthew Thomas and Abhi Dastidar, Accenture
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What manufacturer doesn’t want to deliver advanced PLM capabilities at speed to the business—at the right cost? None that we know, that’s for sure. But the hard truth is that this is easier said than done.
Many of our clients—across industrial equipment, consumer goods, components and others—are struggling with a PLM application landscape that’s inefficient, often outdated, and therefore ill-equipped to support the development of the next-generation of highly-configurable and smart products. This is a massive liability.
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Manufacturers know the value of adopting PLM on the cloud, but they aren’t maximizing their investments.
Manufacturers’ ability to move PLM to the cloud can make or break speed to market, productivity and future competitiveness.
With a successful approach to PLM on the cloud, manufacturers can improve product development and innovation capabilities.
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Not only do we see this issue every day, but our clients are keenly aware that they have it. That’s why many are adopting a two-pronged approach to modernize their PLM landscape and using PLM on cloud as their deployment model to develop products more efficiently, save costs and get the necessary platform flexibility for today’s industrial era. In fact, we conducted a survey that shows that 52 percent of companies cite public cloud as THE preferred option for PLM.
But here’s the challenge—the 800-pound gorilla that no one likes to talk about. Despite all this energy—and investment—in PLM on cloud. It’s astonishing, really.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. The benefits of moving to the cloud are within your reach—whether you want new capabilities delivered with agility via a robust DevOps pipeline, reduced infrastructure costs, or the scalability of cloud services in security, analytics, simulation and other areas. Our experience has taught us three actions that can help ensure your PLM migration to cloud meets your expectations.
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These recommendations come from real-world experience, not from untested theory. They reflect the work we’re doing with organizations like yours. They also inform the development of assets, tools and accelerators that deliver PLM on cloud transformation with less cost and risk of business disruption.
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up to 60%
savings in infrastructure operations.
15-20%
reduction in security efforts
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As part of our commitment to helping our manufacturing clients become cloud ready, we’ve worked with Siemens and Microsoft to develop the Siemens Digital Industries Software on Microsoft Azure solution. It’s a way that you can deliver the product and innovation capabilities the business needs faster and with less risk.
Our guiding principles in creating this solution were zero disruptions, a strong outcomes focus and delivery confidence. An automotive OEM found this out first hand when we helped the company migrate, test and launch Teamcenter to Azure Cloud. They reduced infrastructure costs by 60 percent, supported 2,000 users at peak and benefited from 260 terabytes of storage and six terabytes of metadata.
Wherever you are in your PLM to cloud journey, the likelihood is that we’ve been there before. We understand that the stakes are high for you to maximize business value and drive innovation. We have the insights and the tools to help you reach your goals with maximum impact—long before your competitors do.
About the authors
Matthew is Managing Director at Accenture within Industry X and leads the Engineering X practice for North America and Siemens Alliance Partnership. He has more than 20 years of experience in engineering and manufacturing. Get in touch with him via LinkedIn.
Abhi leads Accenture’s Siemens go-to-market activities for Industry X. He has 20 years of experience in PLM and deep functional and technical expertise in Siemens Digital Industry Software solutions. Please meet him via LinkedIn.