{"id":2020,"date":"2011-07-15T15:36:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T22:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/The-importance-of-supporting-office-tools-in-Apparel-amp-Retail\/ba-p\/334731"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:14:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:14:59","slug":"the-importance-of-supporting-office-tools-in-apparel-retail-product-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/the-importance-of-supporting-office-tools-in-apparel-retail-product-development\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of supporting office tools in Apparel &#038; Retail product development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Let\u2019s face it: the reality is Microsoft tools are used in every industry to support communication and collaboration among the product development team, and their extended value chain. It has become a necessity for PLM systems to integrate seamlessly with the likes of outlook, excel, and sharepoint.&nbsp; It\u2019s why Teamcenter, including Teamcenter for Softlines, Hardlines, &amp; Footwear (SH&amp;F), was built with this paradigm in mind.&nbsp; The biggest challenge to adopting a software system into the enterprise is getting people to use the system, and training them on effectively using it to increase productivity.&nbsp; We have alleviated that challenge considerably in Teamcenter for SH&amp;F through an easy-to-use interface that has integration to MS tools we use every day, like Outlook and Excel.&nbsp; Imagine being able to take information offline into an excel spreadsheet, and having your changes update in real time within Teamcenter while your security privileges are maintained; or signing off on a task on your smartphone while traveling, to keep a line plan on target to meet your in store date.&nbsp; All is a reality with Teamcenter for SH&amp;F.<BR \/><BR \/>If you get a chance, take a look at <A href=\"http:\/\/blog.technologyevaluation.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/13\/excel-users-are-%E2%80%9Cdoomed%E2%80%9D-long-live-excel-user-interface\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Tec Evaluation Center\u2019s blog piece on this topic.<\/A><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s face it: the reality is Microsoft tools are used in every industry to support communication and collaboration among the product development team, and their extended value chain. It has become a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2021,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}