{"id":1710,"date":"2018-08-07T10:13:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T17:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/NX-Design-Blog\/NX-Openness-Interoperability\/ba-p\/514224"},"modified":"2026-03-26T04:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:23:10","slug":"nx-openness-interoperability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/nx-openness-interoperability\/","title":{"rendered":"NX Openness &#8211; Interoperability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>See part one of our NX Openness series <a href=\"https:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/NX-Design-Blog\/NX-Openness-Introduction\/ba-p\/511494\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">here<span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right\" style=\"width: 142px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Key-3.png\" width=\"142\" height=\"364\" alt=\"Key.png\" title=\"Key.png\" \/><\/span><\/A><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><STRONG>Interoperability<\/STRONG><SPAN> relates to a customer\u2019s need to integrate software as seamlessly as possible into complex IT environments comprised of different software applications. These IT environments evolve for numerous reasons:<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><UL><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN>Selection of best-in-class software for different domains (design, simulation, manufacturing, PDM, ERP, etc.) from multiple suppliers<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN>Integration of proprietary software, developed in-house for specialist functions <\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN>Interaction with legacy systems<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN>Adoption of multiple solutions through mergers and acquisitions<\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN>Collaboration in the supply chain <\/SPAN><\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\n<P><SPAN>As such, vendors are encouraged to supply software that communicates efficiently with other IT systems.<\/SPAN><SPAN> Fundamentally, customers should own and have access to their data, and it should be possible to exchange their data between different software applications. Such data might include 3D model definitions, Product Manufacturing Information (PMI), analysis results and so on. It should also be possible for customers to integrate functions as tightly as possible, for example, by customizing a CAD tool to integrate specific functionality from an independent application.<\/SPAN>&nbsp;<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SPAN><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-left\" style=\"width: 795px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Interoperability-Pt-1-1.jpg\" width=\"795\" height=\"198\" alt=\"Interoperability Pt 1.JPG\" title=\"Interoperability Pt 1.JPG\" \/><\/span><\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SPAN>&nbsp;<\/SPAN><SPAN style=\"font-family: inherit;\">The <\/SPAN><STRONG style=\"font-family: inherit;\">interoperability<\/STRONG><SPAN style=\"font-family: inherit;\"> topic doesn\u2019t just apply to integrating software from different sources\/vendors. It also applies to the use of different versions of the <\/SPAN><EM style=\"font-family: inherit;\">same<\/EM><SPAN style=\"font-family: inherit;\"> software. Although the rise in cloud-based offerings may result in more applications becoming globally synchronised at the same version, cross-version <\/SPAN><STRONG style=\"font-family: inherit;\">interoperability<\/STRONG><SPAN style=\"font-family: inherit;\"> will remain a key challenge for customers and their supply chains for some time to come. In such cases, open vendors should try to maximize version compatibility between releases of their software.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SPAN><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-left\" style=\"width: 845px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Interoperability-pt-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"Interoperability pt 2.JPG\" title=\"Interoperability pt 2.JPG\" \/><\/span><\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SPAN>The international <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prostep.org\/en\/cpo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Code of PLM Openness<\/A> considers Interoperability to be a key differentiator for vendor openness. A certification for openness was recently developed that accounts for the importance of the interoperability topic by evaluating a vendor\u2019s performance in relevant areas like the integration of 3<SUP>rd<\/SUP> party functions, export of customer-generated data and support for standards. Siemens PLM Software was among the first vendors to obtain this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en\/about_us\/newsroom\/press\/press_release.cfm?Component=261652&amp;ComponentTemplate=822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">certification in openness<\/A> for&nbsp; its Product Engineering Software organization that includes NX software.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SPAN>The next article in this series will consider how IT <EM>infrastructures<\/EM> and software <EM>extensibility<\/EM> both have a bearing on vendor openness.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See part one of our NX Openness series here     <\/p>\n<p> Interoperability  relates to a customer\u2019s need to integrate software as seamlessly as possible into complex IT environments comprised of dif&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27104,"featured_media":1720,"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":[9],"industry":[],"product":[304],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-product-and-manufacturing-information","product-nx"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Interoperability-pt-2-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1721,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions\/1721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/nx-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}