Plm360 13 Datasheet
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Simple, Reliable Integrations to Other
Business Systems
Dependable integrations keep Autodesk PLM 360
aligned with critical business systems
Introducing Autodesk PLM 360 Connect
No system stands alone. Yet too often systems
require people to pull the data together and create
useful information. Best in class companies build
integrated systems that automatically assemble
pertinent data into useful context. Ultimately, these
integrations enable closed-loop communications
that provide feedback to decision-makers early on
and upfront. The Autodesk PLM 360 Connect suite
of integration tools help businesses make these
integrations simpler and easier to maintain and
thus, more cost effective. Furthermore, Autodesk
PLM 360 Connect tools can help process owners
design smarter integrations to improve the overall
flow of information.
Autodesk PLM 360 Connect solution coverage
Autodesk PLM 360 Connect tools allow process
owners to move data between PLM 360 and other
systems. Broadly, Autodesk PLM 360 Connect tools
offer three levels of integration - simple import/
export using flat file formats, e.g. text files or
spreadsheets, integration using the Jitterbit solution
platform, and Autodesk PLM 360 application
programming interfaces (APIs). Developers use APIs
to program custom solutions or to build connections
using other Enterprise Application Interfaces
(EAIs). Together, the Autodesk PLM 360 Connect
tools make it possible to align with virtually any
standards-based information system.
Business process owners direct traffic
Technologies abound for connecting today’s
traditional enterprise systems. However, business
needs – not technology – should dictate the goals
of an integration plan. To begin, answer these
questions:
• Who needs which PLM-related data and when do
they need it?
• Who’s best to enter the original data and which
system do they prefer to use?
• Among multiple systems, which is best to
compute the most accurate value at the requested
time?
Most likely, business process owners provide
the most credible answers. Aim to design every
integration project to put the right data in front of
the right people at the right time. Once fully agreed,
the next phase of the integration plan introduces
new questions to answer:
• Is useful data stored in an old system that simply
needs to be ‘uploaded’ into a new system to live
on?
• Is the result an outcome of an iterative process
or a computation using data from more than one
system?
• On the other hand, do users simply enter the data
once and share it among all relevant systems?
Autodesk® PLM 360 features next-generation,
cloud-based integrations, too!
• Get started fast using native Autodesk PLM 360 data import/export tools
• Build automated solutions with Jitterbit – a simple, yet powerful application and
data integration platform
• Enjoy no-programming approaches that use plain language and point-and-click
data mapping
• Customize connections using a wide range of Application Programming
Interfaces (APIs)
For more information about Autodesk PLM 360, visit www.autodeskplm360.com
Though difficult to determine upfront, these
answers do help determine the technical design
of the integration. Thus, an ability to experiment
with different approaches using real scenarios
with actual data is an advantage. Beyond easy
setup and deployment, other technological
considerations include the robustness and
strength of the solution and its maximum
throughput, or capacity. Whatever the need,
the Autodesk PLM 360 Connect tools deliver
technologies capable of handling even the most
complex business situations.
Integration Technology
Autodesk PLM 360 Connect offers three broad
levels of integration capability.
Move data right from your browser
Load data fast with simple import and export
available to administrators of both Autodesk
PLM 360 Professional and Enterprise. Once
data exists in PLM and the process owners and
users become familiar with the tool, further data
manipulations can occur easily with little or no
additional training.
Using a simple internet browser, users and
administrators can:
• Easily enter sample data to test or experiment
with different integration scenarios
• Export report data in text (HTML) or
spreadsheet (XLS) formats for use in other
systems
• Import item record details with associated
structured bills of material data
• Import spreadsheets of migrated data to pre-
populate Autodesk PLM 360 workspaces
• Re-import data to update existing records
without duplicating Autodesk PLM 360 data
Key benefits:
• Get started fast by importing information
already collected
• Quickly import large amounts of data using a
simple graphical interface
• Reduce errors and inaccuracies by minimizing
human intervention
• Avoid building expensive, one-time
connections to discontinued systems
• Work at your own pace and move data only
as needed
Integration made easy: Autodesk PLM
360 Connect and Jitterbit Solutions
Jitterbit specializes in simple, fast, and low-
cost integrations of cloud to on-premise and
cloud to cloud applications and data. Using
Jitterbit, you can connect Autodesk PLM 360
to standards-based systems or databases
with ease. Map data and attributes simply by
building drag-and-drop references within the
Jitterbit application.
Autodesk PLM 360 connections powered by
Jitterbit help organizations:
• Consolidate process-specific information
from multiple business systems
• Rapidly migrate data from any data source
into Autodesk PLM 360
• Achieve a holistic view of product data across
multiple systems
• Synchronize back-office systems through
seamless Autodesk PLM 360 integration
• Replicate Autodesk PLM 360 data to a data
warehouse for advanced business analytics
Key benefits:
• Ease to start, use and maintain
• Stay flexible with on-premise or cloud-based
solutions
• High performance delivered by parallel
processing
• Autonomy from information technology (IT)
• Monitor and track entire projects with
powerful administration tools
Jitterbit’s graphical “no-coding” approach
accelerates and simplifies the configuration
and management of on-premise and cloud
integration projects.
Custom connections use the API Integration
– exclusive to Autodesk PLM 360 Enterprise
Autodesk PLM 360 offers a powerful set of
application programming interfaces (APIs) built
specifically to execute programmable services
via the World Wide Web (i.e. web services). Use
this powerful API to write programs that interact
directly with Autodesk PLM 360 using the same
commands sent by an internet browser. Autodesk
PLM 360 uses a modern REpresentational State
Transfer (REST) web services design model, a
simpler and more powerful alternative to Simple
Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Web Services
Description Language (WSDL) used in traditional
information technology environments.
The Autodesk PLM 360 set of APIs affords
programmers advanced data manipulation
between Autodesk PLM 360 and other business
systems.
Through API programming with Autodesk PLM
360, organizations can:
• Create custom integrations to read and
write data from PLM 360 to a native desktop
applications
• Write custom point-to-point integrations with
legacy systems
• Leverage the API to use other, popular EAI
tools that integrate enterprise systems
• As a developer of a new software, use the API
to integrate your application within the larger
ecosystem
• Build the integrations you need to move
data into and out of Autodesk PLM 360 with
confidence
Key benefits:
• Explore the possibilities with virtually any
application featuring an API
• Resolve problem connections with unique,
adaptive solutions
• Offer additional protection using connections
built with compiled code
• Reuse existing connection technology proven
within the enterprise
• Validate connection performance using stress-
test programs
Valuable integrations – a few examples
using Jitterbit
Integrating Autodesk PLM 360 and ERP to
transfer released engineering data
In this example, Autodesk PLM 360 parts and
bills of material designated ‘released’ status are
automatically transferred to a downstream ERP
system as ‘engineering released’ data. A properly
configured integration results in fast and
accurate transfer of information into ERP exactly
as it appears in PLM.
Simple administrator steps to build the PLM/
ERP integration:
1. Start within Jitterbit by creating a project to
connect Autodesk PLM 360 to an existing
ERP system.
2. Connect the systems by authenticating a
user with the appropriate privileges inside
each system.
3. Identify the origin workspaces in Autodesk
PLM 360 from which the correct revision-
controlled engineering data exists. The
appropriate items and bills of material will
include item attributes, lifecycle states, and
revision control rules.
4. Map item properties within Jitterbit
using drag and drop of Autodesk PLM
360 attributes to their equivalents in the
destination ERP system.
5. Specify item criteria to determine the
Autodesk PLM 360 data eligible for transfer
to ERP. In this example, business rules dictate
the engineering data must have a status
equal to ‘released’.
6. Run the synchronization by initiating a
process on the server and validating the first
run’s success.
Key benefits:
• Stay focused on business goals with intuitive
point-and-click system connect, define, and
map operations
• Detailed information transfer occurs
immediately with no manual user intervention
• Respond quickly to changing business needs
using technology that’s easy to modify and
update
• Shrink costs and complexity by keeping hard-
coded integration programs to a minimum
Integrating Autodesk PLM 360 and ERP to
better predict the cost impact of change
A proposed change within Autodesk PLM 360
integrated to ERP automatically reveals the
related part inventory available within the
ERP system. Earlier inventory awareness may
result in more cost effective changes or better
coordination among departments to enact
changes in less time.
Sample use case of PLM/ERP proposed change
integration:
Consider a proposed change within Autodesk
PLM 360 that references a set of parts and/or
assemblies destined to become obsolete and
replaced with new designs. Adding items to
the change causes the integration to retrieve
the items’ cost and quantity from every factory
location. Autodesk PLM 360 tallies the values
and rules flag components that cause the change
to exceed acceptable costs. Alternatively,
the integration may compute the number of
business days, based on current production
levels, required to exhaust all current inventory.
Last, the system may notify other departments
of the pending changes and thus avoid further
inventory buildup. Each of these scenarios would
help the organization determine if proceeding
with the change is a viable option.
Key benefits:
• Early insight into pertinent information
eliminates costly or unduly long change cycles
• Detailed data transfer occurs immediately and
reflects proper calculations
• Affect decision-making before others get
involved to reduce wasted efforts and
confusion
• Achieve more optimum processes that
consider the right information and people at
the right time
Integrating Autodesk PLM 360 and CRM to
better monitor customer activities
Large customers may engage suppliers with
multiple business activities that originate from
different departments. It can be difficult for the
supplier – and even the customer – to properly
manage and track these activities. A well-
conceived integration between the customer’s
sales engagements stored in CRM and the
development activities stored in PLM may help
yield greater advantage from these activities for
the supplier and the customer.
Sample use case of PLM/CRM integration to
better communicate activities:
Clearer insight into the latest sales activities
helps engineering better understand which
customers value which products or services
most. Consequently, suppliers can solicit
more relevant customer feedback when
considering potential product changes or future
developments. The integrations may be a simple
as tagging the latest customer name, size, and
location information to the products stored
in PLM. Advanced integrations may connect
a running total of sales volume with specific
products or replacement parts to provide further
insight.
Key benefits:
• Draw new insights from data otherwise difficult
to assemble without automated integrations
• Identify new business opportunities by
passively monitoring customer buying habits
• Predict the customer impact of business
decisions earlier, based on real customer data
• Keep everyone in the organization abreast of
the latest, most accurate customer information
To learn more, visit
http://www.autodeskplm360.com/connect.
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