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PTC Announces PTC AgileWorx to Accelerate Product Development SuccessLiveWorx 2016 -- PTC (NASDAQ: PTC) today announced at LiveWorx® 2016 the launch of its PTC AgileWorx™ solution, the industry's first Agile (News - Alert) solution designed to help product engineering teams improve innovation and time-to-market. Today's smart, connected products are transforming how companies create and capture value. The speed with which organizations respond to these opportunities will increasingly determine their ability to outperform in the marketplace. Companies who successfully deploy agile practices can accelerate their innovation by up to 80 percent.1 Yet many organizations struggle to apply Agile principles to the realm of product engineering. Product engineering teams must collaborate with diverse teams of specialists, safeguard product quality and safety, and manage product lines over decades. PTC AgileWorx is specifically designed to meet the unique needs of manufacturers building complex and smart, connected products. It provides a central hub where engineering teams can visualize work in progress, prioritize activities, identify dependencies, and remove impediments. "Agility is the optimized response to change," said Roque Martin, senior vice president and general manager of PTC's Application Lifecycle Management segment. "How well manufacturers can adapt will determine their ability to win. We created PTC AgileWorx to give customers the competitive edge needed to accelerate their Agile engineering journey." "Agile practices have revolutionized enterprise IT. The challenge for engineering industries is to bring their engineers to speed with this transformation," said Michael Azoff, principle analyst, Ovum (News - Alert). "With its flexible support for teams that need to bridge different Agile sprints, Ovum is impressed with PTC's vision for agile in engineering and AgileWorx is an excellent tool for multi-disciplined engineering teams." PTC AgileWorx enables manufacturers to respond faster to feedback from customers and other market disruptors. It helps product development organizations:
To sign up for a 15-day free trial of PTC AgileWorx, please visit ptc.com/agileworx. Additional Resources:
About PTC PTC, the PTC logo, PTC AgileWorx, and ThingWorx are trademarks or registered trademarks of PTC Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. 1 McKinsey & Company (News - Alert), "An Operating Model for Company-Wide Agile Development", Comella-Dorda, Loyiya, and Speksnijder, May 2016, View source version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160608005756/en/ |