• Targeted interviews for accurate identification of business challenges and definition of a business vision for PLM
• Definition of PLM Program objectives, KPI and key success factors
• Continuous tracking of program success through KPI/KSF and mitigation with support of a governance model
• Business impact assessment through stakeholder analysis and high level impact assessment aligned with the to-be solution definition
• Business transition plan defining OCM activities such as training and communications

Key outputs

• Business challenges and vision for PLM
• PLM Program KPIs and KSFs
• Governance model
• Business impact assessments
• Business transition plan

• 3DEXPERIENCE core business team enablement sessions through industry best practices process and hands-on demonstrations of capabilities
• Streamlined efficient business workshops for comprehensive scoping of PLM capabilities needs and underlying as-is challenges and requirements
• Mapping of requirements vs capabilities and associated gap-fit analysis
• High level design proposals for gap mitigation focusing on out-of-the-box configuration capabilities and product roadmap for an optimal scalable solution
• Business value assessment for PLM program justification and served as input for ROI calculation
• PLM Program Roadmap with justification of dependencies/constraints and roll-out of business changes

Key outputs

• Enablement: hands-on 3DEXPERIENCE industry best practices process and capabilities demonstration
• Use-case registry: PLM-required capabilities, mapping to out-of-the-box and gap-fit analysis
• High level design: mitigation of gaps
• Opportunities and business value assessment

• Focused interviews for accurate as-is systems landscape review and scoping of the to-be systems landscape definition and associated interfaces requirements
• As-is data assessment for accurate scoping of data migration needs
• High level design of optimal strategy for systems integration and data migration needs
• For 3DEXPERIENCE upgrades blueprints: as-is code assessment through automated customization analysis and comparison with out-of-the-box evolution for identification of conflicts and complexity with associated upgrade recommendations. As-is data assessment and documentation of the “Data uplift/Conversion” playbook with identification of potential risks associated to existing customization and out-of-the-box data model changes

Key outputs

• As-is vs. to-be systems landscapes
• Systems interfaces registry
• Data migration registry
• High level design: strategy for interfaces and data migration
• Upgrade specifics: code analysis with conflicts and complexity highlights and associated recommendations. Data conversion/uplift playbook and highlight of associated risks with mitigation proposal

• Targeted interviews gathering infrastructure requirements (i.e.: users concurrency, technology preferences, users geographical distribution, high availability needs and disaster tolerances, etc.)
• Optimal Infrastructure sizing based on customer requirements, product requirements and scalability forecasts
• Optional cloud-hosted solution specification, sizing and costing
• Optional fail-over and monitoring strategy and mechanism specifications
• Optional turnkey infrastructure managed services with guaranteed SLA and availabilities level

Key outputs

• Infrastructure sizing/specifications
• Optional: cloud hosting specifications and costing
• Optional: infrastructure managed services proposal

Wrap-up of all blueprint streams resulting into a detailed PLM Program definition including:

• Roadmap and roll-out strategies
• Detailed work packages scoping and RACI
• Accurate program execution schedule
• Risk registry and mitigation
• Governance model
• Quality plan and testing strategy