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In just ten years, automakers have seen a 33% increase in new model releases. The trend is clear: to win market share, you need innovative products. But to improve profit margins, your enterprise needs to differentiate its brands and enhance its performance - while at the same time accelerating lifecycles, reducing costs, assuring quality and delivering product excellence. IBM can partner with you to help your company innovate both your products and your business.

IBM has always been a leader of technology and business innovation. We offer unique capabilities to best serve the automotive industry through our depth of knowledge in product development, systems integration and operations. IBM has deep experience and success with the development of complex products in an industry just as dynamic as automotive today. We know how to exploit the concepts of systems engineering and architecture-based design. Based on this expertise, IBM has developed an open framework for PLM to optimize product development from a holistic perspective. IBM's experience can help you to select and implement your PLM tools of choice and seamlessly integrate them across all engineering disciplines, helping you build innovative products faster and better. IBM PLM solutions support design, analysis, simulation, validation and certification processes.

IBM's leadership in open IT infrastructures helps to simplify IT and allows for easier legacy integration, high levels of security and privacy, and support for state-of-the-art collaboration—all from one source. IBM delivers a full range of leading-edge technology, hardware and middleware designed to work together, and based on service oriented architecture (SOA). The IBM PLM integrated infrastructure is built on proven technologies to support virtualization and collaborative innovation.

Merging our own capabilities in product development, IT implementation and integration with best-of-breed applications from IBM Business Partners, we are uniquely positioned to be your partner in defining, implementing and operating your future value creation environment. We can collaborate with automotive companies in technology adoption and modern development methodologies. Let us join forces in the implementation of efficient processes—and support your business innovation initiatives by an open standards-based, seamlessly integrated collaboration infrastructure.


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