Case Study

Colony Brands

Founded in 1926, Colony Brands quickly evolved to one of the world’s largest and most successful catalog companies, employing over 7000 people today.

Challenges

  • The company wanted a smooth implementation but didn’t have the technical skills in house to manage Apache and PTC Windchill Flex PLM
  • The decision-makers also wanted to ensure ongoing optimal performance and stability of PTC Windchill FlexPLM at a predictable cost

Solutions

  • Colony Brands’ risk management plan for the PTC Windchill FlexPLM implementation relied on leveraging PTC Cloud Services to ensure a rapid deployment of the system
  • By having the experts in PTC Cloud Services configure, tune, and support the system, Colony Brands would also be able to avoid performance issues or creating an unstable system

Benefits

  • Stability, performance, and proactive monitoring/tuning of the system have exceeded expectations. This includes fast response times for the Colony Brands team in Shanghai, China
  • Releases are implemented monthly, with practically no post-install issues
  • Colony Brands is seeing excellent response times to requests for new users or catalogs, which was an initial concern
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Colony Brands successfully implemented PTC Windchill FlexPLM in the PTC Cloud, which aligns with its overall IT strategy to move all hardware and application management into the Cloud.

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