home  //  geospatial products & services  /  program lifecycle management

Program Lifecycle Management

Program Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a solution for government agencies that facilitates the sharing
of program data across all agency functions, customers and suppliers. Comprised of COTS software,
hardware and services from IBM, Dassault Systemes, and TechniGraphics , the solution puts your
data at the center of everything you do.

Program Lifecycle Management pulls relevant information from many disparate databases, associates
it with specific program knowledge, and makes it available across the organization and throughout
your pool of contractors - empowering everyone to work faster and smarter.

This allows a network of organizations - working together to capture, conflate and support geospatial
data - to operate as a single entity. PLM allows organizations to share common business processes
and a common knowledge of the program throughout all stages of its lifecycle, from conception to
its sunset.

Collaboration breeds efficiency and innovation. PLM breaks down barriers that limit interaction
between people who manage programs and the contractors who produce and supply data necessary
to support personnel in the field. PLM lets your agency make the quantum leap and become an
information broker while streamlining the production flow, shortening the delivery cycle, and cutting
total program costs.

PLM is the answer for today's crisis-driven organizations focused on delivering mass-customized data
to generate specific, personalized GIS information for mission-specific teams around the globe. When
the greatest possible numbers of creative minds collaborate - they innovate.

PLM simultaneously supports and enables three distinct, yet deeply interconnected,
processes:

• Supply chain collaboration - to help you collaborate between value-add partners and your
  internal experts
• Program development - to help you develop and deliver better geospatial data in a more efficient environment
• Enterprise process integration - to help you integrate program information with all agency
  accounting, finance and tracking processes