Teamcenter

Pros: Keeps your CAD, analysis, and all data organized. Everything from CAD files to PDF's can be stored and saved on your network. Revisions ensure the latest data is always available. Personal folder structure is possible, so the company may have its structure, but one can still create their folders to organize the same information. The software can be tuned to your company's needs, enabling and disabling functions and also creating rules. It's fast to log in and the latest version has some browser based capability. If data is deleted by accident, it can be quickly restored. Highly secure, controlling access to data to only certain employees, or read-only rights.

Cons: It is complex, which I'm not sure is a Con, because of all the features, but somebody in the company has to work full-time with Teamcenter, so it does require significant investment. There is a lot of maintenance, organization, structuring, etc to manage your data. More needs to be browser based, phone/tablet app based. Operating software on a PC is quickly becoming a thing of the past.

Overall: Stayed organized. Stored data efficiently. Never lost data. Easily shared data. Recovered data mistakenly deleted.

Pros: Easy to use and powerful software to control CAD data and controlled documents. Easy to communicate with multiple users and work sites.

Overall: Increased control of CAD data and easier to communicate with many users and work sites.

Comments: We use Teamcenter to manage our CAD models and drawings as well as the production release workflow. I have a feeling that we are just at the tip of the iceberg as far as using its full capabilities. It has definitely been created by engineers and for engineers, at takes some time to master if you aren't familiar with PLM systems.

Pros: $ Extreamly powerful software, endless customizations , secure & reliable, works great with NX $

Cons: Needlessly complex to administer. You will need to hire several highly skilled IT/Teamcenter administrators with programming backgrounds, or spend tens of thousands, and months of time, getting existing IT people trained.
This software was created for General Motors and companies of simmilar size. If you are a small to medium size company forget it. We were pushed into using it by our parent company, we do not have the resources to properly impliment or administer it, so for us it is an extreamely expensive CAD vault. We don't even scratch the surface of it's capabilities and we are going broke paying for NX and Teamcenter licenses.

Overall: If you are a very large company, and have unlimited funds to pour into a plm system, Teamcenter is for you.

Recommendations to other buyers: Things to think about with this software: Implimentation, administration, hardware/license server & volume server(s), license cost - initial, then yearly maintainence fee's, updates requiring license & client re-instalation every 2 to 3 years, training, training, and more training. Multiple administrators specializing in different areas within the software (yes it is that large and complex). And if you think you will be able to search the internet for help or info on administration, think again. Seimens scrubs the internet of almost all info, forcing you to pay them if you want any help.