Windchill

Initial investments in Windchill Technology were made by Computervision company which was going to use new technology in the next generation of the PDM systems. In January, 1998 it was a part of PTC to which passed Windchill Technology share block.

The three-component technology a product became result of work of Windchill Technology : Windchill integrating corporate program architecture, a development environment and reusable basic applications of management of corporate data. The Windchill technology is completely focused on Web and is based on its conventional components. And though in the market of PDM systems the majority of products have user interfaces based on HTML or Java now, the model offered Windchill is a step forward. In it all PDM-applications is written in the Java language, and as the middleware the known applications and constructions of Web are applied. So, for search of metadata instead of SQL the search system for Web is used, and communication with other applications, objects and repositories of Windchill is implemented using hyperlinks and URL. As a result users receive a flexible solution which can be implemented on the basis of existing network Internet/intranet/Extranet-инфраструктуры.

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