Oracle and xPLM put CAD to PLM integration at top of agenda

Denis Senpere, vice-president for PLM at Oracle EMEA, explains that the Dresden and Karlsruhe, Germany centre is being led by industry specialists, and is already working on integration products between multiple CAD systems and Oracle's Agile PLM. "A single change to a CAD model made by an engineer can require an update to hundreds of processes and applications within a PLM environment," says Senpere. "Combining the expertise of both Oracle and xPLM Solution, this joint competency centre will quickly be a high value resource for our customers." "Many existing design and CAD applications fail to provide strategic business value because of difficulties in integration. Our task is to help organisations overcome these problems, and we look forward to sharing the benefit of our technology and expertise into CAD and PLM integration with customers and partners across Europe," adds Karl Wachtel, managing director of xPLM.