Accenture, PTC, Sun tie up for CPC solution in India

BANGALORE: To accelerate manufacturers' product development cycles and

improve cross-company collaboration, Accenture, PTC and Sun Microsystems Inc.

have come together to provide clients with comprehensive collaborative product

commerce (CPC) solutions.

Designed to help companies leverage the Internet, the joint CPC solution

helps remove the traditional barriers between companies, organizations and

business systems by allowing key partners, suppliers, customers and internal

production teams to work in concert through all phases of a product's lifecycle.

This solution leverages Accenture's deep experience in delivering successful CPC

implementations, PTC's software, and Sun Microsystems's high-end network

computing solutions, under the Sun iForce(SM) initiative.

"Through the iForce initiative, Sun globally partners with best-of

-breed companies to create and deliver customer-driven solutions that help

enable enterprises to leverage the network to improve their business

processes," said Sun Microsystems India Pvt. Ltd. general manager-

Strategic Alliances Tirthankar Banerjee.

"Manufacturers are clearly focusing on their core competencies,

delivering innovative products to market faster and at lower costs than their

competition," said Kishore Rao, Managing Director, PTC India. "This

partnership aims at helping the Indian companies to enhance the business

processes, thereby producing world-class products."

The joint CPC solution leverages each company's core competency to help

customers accelerate their product development processes. Sun's iForce(SM)

solutions approach aggregates best-of-breed applications and enabling

technologies that are pre-tested, scalable, easy to customize and based on open

standards. The joint CPC solution allows customers to expedite their CPC

implementations through a flexible, proven blend of software systems and

consulting services.

To facilitate rapid implementation of the offerings with clients, the firms

are working to leverage their respective global CPC technology centers. This

includes Sun's iForce(TM) Ready Centers, Accenture's CPC Capability Centers and

PTC's Collaboration Centers. The combined team worked together to develop

product development diagnostics tools that can rapidly assess the joint CPC

solution's impact on shareholder value. Through this relationship, Sun,

Accenture and PTC will initially target their solutions at the electronics, high

technology, automotive, consumer products, and industrial equipment sectors in

India.