Visualizing and Interacting with a System-Centric Enterprise Digital Thread.

As large enterprises embrace Digital Transformation, it is obvious that merely scanning paper documents to digital form is inadequate to achieve their broader goals. These must be transformed into more granular data that are version controlled, configuration managed and connected - i.e., a digital thread. As a digital thread begins to span the product lifecycle, its complexity increases exponentially with the number of lifecycle phases and application areas that it encompasses. This quickly becomes intractable, given the "normal" approach to finding and presenting data in PLM platforms. The goal of creating these enormous and rapidly growing networks of data is not just to archive the data. They must empower the product teams to be productive and to make the most effective use of this dynamic data network to meet the rapidly changing goals of the corporation as it reacts to the market's needs. This requires various graphical query and visualization tools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]