{"id":2456,"date":"2008-10-13T12:16:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T19:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Rolls-Royce-Talks-4-Tier\/ba-p\/333799"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:20:14","slug":"rolls-royce-talks-4-tier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/rolls-royce-talks-4-tier\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolls Royce Talks 4-Tier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QrR1FHaMi14\"><\/IFRAME><BR \/><BR \/>I just got out of a technical presentation by Martin Washburn, a PLM technical specialist with <A title=\"Rolls Royce\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rolls-royce.com\/about\/overview\/default_flash.jsp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Rolls Royce<\/A>. Martin has 23 years in IT and 12 of those specifically with Teamcenter. He supports 8,000 users in 30 locations in 8 countries. So quite a large enterprise.<BR \/><BR \/>He shared with the audience the benefits of moving to a 4-tier architecture for PLM. Their 4-tiers are client, web, enterprise and resource. Martin stressed the importance of a single data source or \u201cbackbone.\u201d He also recommended leveraging a site-sizing strategy to breakdown the technology deployed in stages by site size.<BR \/><BR \/>He noted benefits of 4-tier for Rolls Royce in several areas:<BR \/>1. Strategic alignment with Siemens PLM Software product direction<BR \/>2. Corporate policy compliance to deploy web applications<BR \/>3. Increased performance and reduced cost (he explains how it does this on the video)<BR \/>4. Scalable and future proof<BR \/>5. Operational<BR \/>6. Security<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got out of a technical presentation by Martin Washburn, a PLM technical specialist with Rolls Royce. Martin has 23 years in IT and 12 of those specifically with Teamcenter. He supports 8,000 u&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61893,"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-2456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456","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\/61893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2457,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions\/2457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}