CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
October 25, 2004
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CIMdata Commentary: Adobe - UGS Partnership
On 24 October 2005 Adobe and UGS announced a partnership in which Adobe will become a member of UGS' JT Open program and UGS will join Adobe's Solution Network Program. Each will adopt and support the other's technologies to expand and improve information and document exchange, distribution and access. The two companies will integrate Teamcenter with Adobe's LiveCycle Server and will jointly develop new digital rights management solutions.
This partnership will enable users to include JT data in a variety of PDF-based document workflows and to publish PLM and 3D content into PDF documents directly from UGS' suite of PLM applications. They will also be able to import JT content into Adobe Acrobat software where it can be viewed in U3D format for improved design collaboration. Customers can use Adobe Reader for design collaboration without having to download a different viewer and will be able to use the review and markup capabilities in the Adobe reader to annotate PDF documents generated from either UGS or Adobe applications
CIMdata believes that this partnership is a solid step in expanding usability and availability of product related information. The ability to use the familiar, free Adobe Reader will bring that information to a larger audience and enable them to more actively participate in product design, development and support processes. Integrating the JT and PDF formats should enable extending collaborative use of product information further throughout an enterprise and across the extended value chain. Additionally, the use of Adobe's LiveCycle Server and PDF to support digital rights management will provide more control of intellectual property that is being widely distributed and used.
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