From PDM to PLM: How PTC Evolved Windchill into the Enterprise Backbone

from DemystifyingPLM · host Michael Finocchiaro

When Pro/INTRALINK reached the limits of engineering-centric PDM in the late 1990s, PTC made a strategic bet that would reshape its future and the PLM market: acquiring an upstart company called Windchill Technology and transforming it from an internet-based collaboration tool into the foundation of

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