Accenture, PTC, Sun team up on CPC
Staff -- Manufacturing Business Technology, 6/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
In a move to accelerate manufacturers' product development cycles and improve cross-company collaboration, Accenture, New York, PTC, Needham, Mass., and Sun Microsystems, Palo Alto, Calif., will offer collaborative product commerce (CPC) solutions that leverage Accenture's experience with CPC implementations, PTC's Windchill CPC software, and Sun's iForce solutions approach, which is said to aggregate best-of-breed applications and enable scalable, easy-to-customize technologies that are based on open standards.
The three companies already are working to leverage Sun's iForce Ready Centers, Accenture's CPC Capability Centers, and PTC's Collaboration Centers. Through this relationship, they will initially target their solutions at the electronics, high-tech, automotive, aerospace & defense, and industrial equipment sectors.
"CPC solutions are a top-level agenda item for CEOs," says David Rich, a global industry managing partner for Accenture. "Over the past year, we have worked together on a number of global accounts to deploy our CPC solutions. Some of the largest high-tech companies we work with are deploying our joint CPC offering to leverage the intellectual assets in product development throughout their existing customer relationship management, supply chain management, and enterprise resources planning systems."
