Product data management across the full product lifecycle involves data created, maintained, and updated in numerous and divers systems. More and more often, the situation is further complicated because information resides in IT-systems belonging to someone else: 

A supplier, a partner in development or collaboration, even the customer, when product support is part of a contract.

This situation is often referred to as Extended Enterprise Collaboration, which exist for many different reasons and takes many shapes. Please take advantage of the information we have gathered around the Extended and Virtual Enterprise concepts.

In the section Business situations addressed you find descriptions of various different situations in which efficient product data management is essential, for instance internal PDM investment, system change or upgrade, and management of design change thorugh life.

Share-A-space® is Eurostep's server solution which manages product data across different IT systems and between organizations, including the extended enterprise. It is the premier product lifecycle solution for the engineering supply chain. It enables business partners to share specific product information without exposing the whole information set and risking loss of IPR. At the same time, product data residing in different system is integrated: Share-A-space® puts together all the pieces for you and provides you with the complete picture.

The Toolboxes and SDKs provided by Eurostep significantly reduce the time taken to develop and deploy high quality PLCS implementations such as PLCS data importers, exporters and specialised integrations.