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Integrity, PTC’s application lifecycle management solution, manages all software system development processes and connects all software engineering artifacts, including requirements, models, code and test, ensuring comprehensive lifecycle traceability. Integrity's open architecture integrates disparate tools into a streamlined software system engineering process, allowing orchestration of software change and collaboration across the technology supply chain. With Integrity, development teams improve productivity and quality, streamline compliance and gain complete product visibility, which ultimately drives more innovative products into the market. PTC’s Integrity Business Unit, enables organizations to reduce the overwhelming complexity of developing software intensive products thereby removing barriers to rapid innovation.

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is not a Tool – it’s a way of Life

In my opinion, ALM is not a fancy shiny tool as some people may suggest – it’s a way of life in the software development world. The challenges facing software development today include: managing software development assets and the relationships between them; full lifecycle process automation and enforcement; reusability of development assets; having a… Continue reading

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Take Another Look at Your Functional Safety Practices: Part 1 in an Automotive Functional Safety Series

Functional safety is not a new concept, so why is it such an important topic in the automotive world these days? The short answer is the complexity of the modern automobile coupled with recent high profile systematic failures have demanded a more thorough, more detailed, and more domain specific functional safety standard… Continue reading

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Is There Any Value In Software Product Lines For Aerospace and Defense? Part 1 In A Series On SPL For A&D

Can aerospace and defense companies benefit from implementing software product line techniques and tools? Where’s the SPL ROI in the A&D industry, if there is one? In this blog series, we’ll examine the SPL practice and consider its potential value and risks in this specialized world of… Continue reading

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SPL and Agile

Today’s product engineering organizations are under unprecedented pressure to produce high quality software in as short a time and as low cost as possible. Most are finding the traditional development methods to be insufficient and ineffective in this high paced environment, and are looking at alternatives, most often in the form of either Agile or Software Product Lines (SPL)… Continue reading

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Welcome to the PTC Integrity Blog!

In this blog you’ll learn how Software System Lifecycle Management (SSLM) can manage all software system development processes and connects all software engineering artifacts, including requirements, models, code and test, ensuring comprehensive lifecycle traceability. You will see some great posts from all of our industry experts; updates on webinar events from the PTC Integrity Business Unit; product updates; PR and …

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SSLM for All the Right Reasons – Music to My Ears

Last week I had the pleasure of meeting with a customer who builds advanced industrial control systems. Like many others in the high tech electronics space, this customer has seen software become an increasingly important part of their overall product development. The topic of this particular meeting was the benefits of… Continue reading

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Agile Manifestations

Agility is Not Enough: Beyond the Manifesto, written by Forbes columnist Steve Denning, challenges those “still living within the confines of the Agile Manifesto” to consider Agile in the context of today’s business world. Customer delight is the new bottom line for business, according to Denning, and Agile methods… Continue reading

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Have You Downloaded the Latest Software Patch for Your BMW 3?

The role of software is changing and nowhere is that more evident than in the world of product manufacturers. Software brings huge benefits, but at the same time significant challenges. In a recent article by Michael Azoff of Ovum in the Technology Spectator, he asserts that… Continue reading

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One Size Does Not Fit All in Risk Management

Risk Management is a critical process in developing safe and effective medical devices as well as a requirement for regulatory approval. However, there is no single best method for managing risk that can be applied in all circumstances. Organizations often need to adapt… Continue reading

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Test Faster or More Effectively? – It is possible with the right Requirements Management Tool!

A problem that plagues all software development organizations is never having the time to test everything you want to test. Shipping a quality product or bug free application means making hard choices when allocating limited testing resources. Testing faster and more efficiently is always a good idea… Continue reading

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