PTC Navigate - Simplified PLM Access for Better Collaboration
                     PTC Navigate 
It’s your product data. What do you want to do with it?
Product data is your organization’s most valuable asset. Decisions 
made with this information can greatly impact your business,  
including product safety and reliability, speed of innovation, on–time 
and on–budget delivery, and more. To realize the business benefits 
of good decisions–and to avoid the repercussions of bad ones–it is 
essential that stakeholders throughout your organization can access 
the most up-to-date product information whenever they need it. 
Why PTC Navigate? Benefits of Navigate:
Most enterprise software tools are inaccessible Connect to product data easily for… 
to a broad range of users due to costly licensing, 
intensive training, and the time it takes to integrate • Accurate decision-making: broad visibility into  
and customize them. Stakeholders who aren’t experts systems of record.
often access and exchange data from these systems • Higher product quality: decisions and actions 
of record using disconnected processes and tools. driven by up-to-date information.
These workarounds create a new instance of the data 
that is no longer under change control, so subsequent • New insights: relevant data from multiple systems 
updates to the system of record make the workaround, delivered in context.
and any decisions made with it, at best irrelevant–and • Greater value: extend existing technologies to 
at worst inaccurate. more users with better adoption.
The Democratization of Product Data: Experience your data in new ways that are… 
PTC Navigate is a revolutionary new set of applications • Intuitive: training-free, accessible, and modern UI. 
that let more stakeholders across a company access 
and impact product data sourced from multiple • Role-based: contextualize data from many sources 
systems of record in a simple, role-based interface. based on the user’s needs.
With a modern user experience that is as easy to use • Faster time-to-value: deploy in hours or days, not 
as a smartphone app, PTC Navigate is ideal for any weeks or months.
stakeholder throughout a product’s lifecycle that 
needs access to the latest, most accurate information • Cohesive: provide one, familiar user experience 
to drive critical decisions. PTC Navigate integrates across multiple systems.
directly with enterprise systems of record while Build new user experiences quickly for apps that are… 
delivering a highly intuitive user experience: ensuring 
accuracy, confidence, and the highest degree of • Extensible: to new data sources, new systems, and 
fidelity to your product’s data. new user experiences.
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• Agile: deploy new UIs quickly–“try fast; fail fast”. PTC Navigate is:
• Seamless: data source changes do not impact  • Tailorable: simple controls limit or expand what 
the user. can be viewed and searched based on selected 
• Flexible: sources can be on the cloud, on premises, properties and attributes of the data.
SAAS, or mixed. • Context-driven: apps extend PLM data to include 
Navigating PLM with PTC Navigate: information from ERP, CRM, MES and other  
enterprise systems.
A suite of PTC Navigate apps make PLM data housed • System-agnostic: back-end systems can be 
in PTC Windchill available to more of the enterprise updated independently so the user is uninterrupted 
in a highly consumable way, to extend the value of by upgrades, replacements, data migrations, and 
PLM to more product lifecycle stakeholders. By other updates. 
democratizing PLM data in this way, teams who impact 
the product throughout its lifecycle can easily access • Secure: data is only served based on the security 
the real-time, change-managed, single source of  permissions of the user in the system of record.
truth for product knowledge, ensuring that every • Mobile-ready: with ThingWorx Mobile Builder,  
stakeholder involved in the product lifecycle is  apps can be accessed via users’ device of  
leveraging accurate information for their decisions. choice–smartphone, tablet, PC–and preferred  
platform–Microsoft, iOS, OSX, Android. 
Navigating Requirements with PTC Navigate: • Modular: using the developer toolkit, fully  
customized apps can be created from the  
PTC Navigate’s “View Requirements” app provides ground-up that leverage existing PTC  
a real-time window into evolving product and Navigate capabilities. 
software requirements maintained in PTC Integrity 
Lifecycle Manager. It’s the fast, easy way to share • IoT-enabled: when combined with products or 
rich requirements information with all product equipment connected to the Internet of Things  
stakeholders, to help ensure that everyone is working with ThingWorx, tailored or fully customized  
towards shared objectives. PTC Navigate apps can include IoT data. 
Learn more about PTC Navigate at  
Features of PTC Navigate: www.ptc.com/navigate. 
© 2016, PTC Inc. (PTC). All rights reserved. Information described herein is  
furnished for informational use only, is subject to change without notice, and 
should not be taken as a guarantee, commitment, condition or offer by PTC. PTC, 
the PTC logo, Product & Service Advantage, Creo, Elements/Direct, Windchill, 
Mathcad and all other PTC product names and logos are trademarks or  
registered trademarks of PTC and/or its subsidiaries in the United States and 
other countries. All other product or company names are property of their 
respective owners. The timing of any product release, including any features or 
functionality, is subject to change at PTC’s discretion.
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PTC Navigate apps include:View Drawing, View Part Properties, 
View Part List, View Part Structure, View/Download Design Files, 
View & Measure in 3-D, View Requirements
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