PTC ProductPoint

[seymours2571]

Hello All,

Not sure what PDM/PLM system everyone uses out there, but have many of you had any experience with PTC ProductPoint. Any idea of the cost of product point verusus Intralink,PDMLink, or Windchill? Any feedback on the functionality differences you have experienced would be helpful as well.

Thanks in advance,

Steve

 

[looslib]

ProductPoint is the PDMLink application of Windchill using SharePoint instead of Oracle for the DB.

The riding factor is not cost, but can your company live with a SharePoint DB as the repository for all your company CAD data and work efficiently.


"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli

 

[seymours2571]

Ben,

So are you saying they are priced similarly? For small companies cost does play an important part in the decision making process.

Just curious if anyone is using it or has used it and what his/her experience was like. I have read a lot of feedback regarding Intralink (good and bad). Just wanting to see how it compares with product point.

Steve

 

[looslib]

From what I have heard the PTC parts (Windchill/PDMLink) are priced the same. The database (SharePoint/Oracle) pricing is different.

The database is not included in the PTC products with Windchill the way a run-time version was included in Pro/Intralink 3.x days.


"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli

 

[seymours2571]

You right about the pricing. I just got a response from a VAR stating that the price for ProductPoint and Intralink are both around 2k.

I found this comparison table this weekend:

http://www.ptc.com/products/windchill/productpoint/faq.htm

Based on the lack of features...how PTC could price ProductPoint near Intralink is beyond me. I know that Intralink can be a little more administrative overhead, but being without some of the intralink features in ProductPoint is a show stopper.

Thanks,

Steve

 

[brep]

Windchill ProductPoint was developed as a low cost PDM solution for small companies. It does not require Windchill PDMLink, but is a stand-alone solution build natively on SharePoint. SharePoint provides some Office document management and collaboration capabilities. Windchill ProductPoint currently supports Pro/ENGINEER, Mathcad, and AutoCAD; and Solidworks and Inventor will be available soon.

For some customer feedback, you may be interested in a customer case study being presented at PTC/USER (

http://www.ptcuser.org/2010/windchill.html)

titled: "ProductPoint: So Easy a Caveman can do it".