{"id":4945,"date":"2020-05-11T09:41:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T13:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/?p=4945"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:48:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:48:41","slug":"virtual-teamcenter-beta-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/virtual-teamcenter-beta-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Teamcenter Beta Event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A Grand Success: 45 Companies \u2013 3 Testing Zones \u2013 100% Virtual Event<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, the Beta event looked a little different than years past.  Due to the ever-changing global crisis that everyone is currently dealing with, we hosted the first-ever Virtual Teamcenter Beta Testing event.  During the event, 75+ participants from 45 companies across the globe participated from a handful of varying industry segments (Aerospace, Automobile, Hi-Tech, Machinery, Healthcare, and Energy), in three zones \u2013 US, Germany, and APAC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_1022175673-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"4959\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_1022175673.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/?attachment_id=4959\" class=\"wp-image-4959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_1022175673-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_1022175673-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_1022175673-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_1022175673-1110x740.jpg 1110w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_1022175673.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_1145563910-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"4960\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_1145563910.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/?attachment_id=4960\" class=\"wp-image-4960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_1145563910-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_1145563910-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_1145563910-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_1145563910-1110x740.jpg 1110w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_1145563910.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Integrating the Voice of the Customer into Teamcenter<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Customer insights on overall functionality, usability, and reliability were the primary focus of this years&#8217; event. This event also enabled our customers to experience new and enhanced solutions with Active Workspace 5 and Teamcenter 12.4. In turn, we were able to<strong> c<\/strong>ollect critical customer feedback on the software through issue discovery, live feedback sessions, and surveys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many thanks to all our customer participants for participating and providing valuable feedback, having an excellent discussion, sharing all of their good ideas, and thereby helping us to make Teamcenter and Active Workspace better. <strong>Thank you so much for your words of encouragement &#8211; &#8211; it means a lot to us! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"592\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/Beta-Test-Feedback-2020-1024x592.png\" alt=\"Feedback from the 2020 Teamcenter Beta Testing Event\" class=\"wp-image-4947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/Beta-Test-Feedback-2020-1024x592.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/Beta-Test-Feedback-2020-600x347.png 600w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/Beta-Test-Feedback-2020-768x444.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/Beta-Test-Feedback-2020-1110x642.png 1110w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/Beta-Test-Feedback-2020.png 1421w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Feedback from the 2020 Teamcenter Beta Testing Event<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Exploring Solutions Faster with Live Demos <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/Beta1.jpg\" alt=\"Live product demos and use cases helped participants to explore solutions faster\" class=\"wp-image-4948\" width=\"392\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/Beta1.jpg 711w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/Beta1-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><figcaption>Live product demos helped beta participants to explore solutions<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>                                                  We delivered 25 live product demonstrations of new capabilities to participants the week before the actual testing.  This helped participants prepare for the hands-on beta testing event and gave them additional time to think about the upcoming enhancements. In addition to demos, we provided&nbsp;prescriptive business use case scenarios to test our product, which helped participants test more effectively and correlate those directly to their business needs. At the same time, it makes easy for them to offer feedback on functionality, usability, user experience, and overall product enhancement suggestions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Collaboration with Customers Helps us Build a Stronger Product, Together \u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft Teams helped us achieve consistent communication and collaboration. This made the conversations easier with our participants, by being able to articulate their input and feedback better and faster. Most importantly, we were able to respond to them quickly. We also leveraged these channels to share the related documents, demos, and other reference material effectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Beta Testing Makes a Difference in Product Success<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>During the week, customer participants spent a total of 1,727 hours on testing, with 23 hours of average testing time and reported approximately 250 + different valuable observations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 25 suggestions were made into enhancement requests and logged into our upcoming product roadmap. The remaining observations were logged as required software fixes, out of which a majority of minor software updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/Beta-Feedback-2020.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4977\" width=\"902\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/Beta-Feedback-2020.png 888w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/Beta-Feedback-2020-600x153.png 600w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/Beta-Feedback-2020-768x195.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 902px) 100vw, 902px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We conducted 66 UX testing sessions for 16 Teamcenter domains like program planning, security, configurator, classification, etc. Customers were really pleased to see the enriched user experience in Active Workspace and shared their valuable inputs helping us drive user experience to the next level.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/2020-Beta-Focus-and-Product-Reaction.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4975\" width=\"745\" height=\"354\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We also provided surveys and daily live feedback sessions where customers shared their qualitative inputs on functionality, usability, and reliability with us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Event Summary<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Customer valuable inputs and feedbacks confirmed our confidence in functionality, reliability, and stability of Teamcenter 12.4 and Active Workspace 5. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/thankful-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4964\" width=\"298\" height=\"286\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>By expanding capabilities and solutions to address customer business use cases, and increasing ease of use and deployments \u2013 it\u2019s clear that Teamcenter is more powerful than ever before, and clearly positioned to help our customers achieve a high return on their PLM investment. Our customer participants were given the opportunity to know and hand-on on new capabilities and enhancements, which enabled them to plan configurations and future needs well in advance. Thereby, insights were gained from each perspective, a win-win for all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As mentioned earlier, this Beta event looked different than years past. Thanks to everyone who participated and helped us host the first-ever Virtual Teamcenter Beta Testing event. We are so grateful to have flexible, committed customers who want to help us improve our products. Your valuable feedback, discussions, and ideas help us to make Teamcenter better for all. <strong>Thank you so much for your participation &#8211; &#8211; it means a lot to us! <\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Grand Success: 45 Companies \u2013 3 Testing Zones \u2013 100% Virtual Event<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53170,"featured_media":4959,"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":[125,51],"tags":[166],"industry":[],"product":[357],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-featured","tag-thought-leadership","product-teamcenter"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/05\/shutterstock_1022175673.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4945"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4994,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4945\/revisions\/4994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4945"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=4945"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=4945"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/teamcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}