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Digital disruption puts IT at the front end of the business.<\/span><\/span>In the business of IT, you can be pretty modest about your achievements, when in fact administering and maintaining a PLM system is about as big as it gets. No, you\u2019re not solving world peace \u2026 but you are on the front line facing the challenges of digital disruption, and your business does put a lot of trust in you. IT supports product design and development, which is the heart of your business. In this age of digital disruption, a product can go from front-runner to has-been in just a short time \u2026 how quickly your company adapts and responds can make all the difference.<\/P><\/p>\nThe speed of change and digital disruption is faster than ever before. Look at the turnover in the Fortune 500. A study from the John M. Olin School of Business at Washington University predicts that 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies will vanish in 10 years. Digital disruption is turning companies with stable, reliable products into dinosaurs.<\/P><\/p>\n
In the face of digital disruption, the difference between product winners and losers are its people. The engineers with the great ideas and innovations that turn into the next market leader. But people can only get so far on their own \u2026 and that\u2019s where technology comes in. The technology to go faster, do more, work together, adapt to change \u2026 the technology supported by IT, who are fast becoming the heroes of business.<\/P><\/p>\n
\u201cSince our reliance on technology increases with each passing day, IT is steadily moving to the front end\u2014not the back\u2014of business,\u201d <\/EM>states a recent Forbes article, \u201cThe Changing Role of IT in the Future of Business<\/A>, \u201cIT workers aren\u2019t just facilitating business goals; they\u2019re driving change at an organizational level. CEOs are leaning on IT to deliver a competitive advantage as much as they do for a marketing strategy.\u201d<\/EM><\/P><\/p>\n This is the time for IT to shine, and we want to help you. With each release, we are on a mission to make our software easier to deploy, manage and maintain. We want to minimize the cost of installation and ongoing enhancements, so your IT team can help your business respond more quickly to market changes and trends in this age of digital disruption.<\/P><\/p>\n One example is our new Deployment Center, which gives you a centralized web-based application that you can use to deploy Active Workspace in your existing Teamcenter platform and upgrade just Active Workspace if you choose. Deployment Center also makes it easier for you to consistently deploy any custom software that you\u2019ve built to one or more of your Teamcenter installations. Take a look at this video to see what I mean.<\/P><\/p>\n <\/p>\n