13/06/2018
Major joint project started with PTC in the automotive industry / Further projects to follow
msg, the IT consulting and system integration company headquartered in Munich, has expanded its service portfolio in the field of product lifecycle management: In order to make the digital processes used by its automotive customers more efficient, the company has decided to further broaden its knowledge of PTC’s product portfolio. To that end, it signed a cooperation agreement in March with the American technology company – a lead global provider of software solutions for product lifecycle management.
msg enriches the partnership with its expertise in the automotive industry and will help PTC expand its presence in the sector. PTC contributes its products and adds msg to its extensive partner program.
During this initial step, the collaboration will focus on the automotive industry. The two companies plan to extend the cooperation to the manufacturing industry over the long term. Although the partnership is not designed to be exclusive, the two companies believe their mutual know-how creation and expansion will lead to a win-win situation in their respective sectors.
Major join project started in April 2018
msg and PTC started a major mutual project in April, signaling the beginning of the collaboration. Within the context of the project, PTC’s solutions will be implemented into in the process and application landscape of a major automotive manufacturer. “msg has decades of industry expertise, as well as extensive process know-how in the automotive industry. We are positive that we have found a solid partner in msg, with whom we can efficiently drive digitalization for our shared customers. We look forward to working with msg,” states Don Rekko, Vice President Customer Success Management for Central Europe at PTC.
The know-how msg will be able to acquire about PTC’s portfolio will put msg in a position to be an implementation partner for its customers for PTC products as well. “As an independent and vendor-neutral company, we always design our industry solutions around our customer’s needs and wants. Thanks to the additional PTC product know-how we have obtained, we can offer our customers even broader and more extensive consulting in order to develop and implement custom-made solutions,” explains Stephan Melzer, Head of the Automotive Division at msg.
According to a recent study by the Forrester market research institute, the PTC technology company is among the global leaders in product development at the moment. PTC is headquartered in Boston, with around 6,000 employees and annual revenue of about 1.2 billion US dollars. Their customers include Fujitsu Network Communications, Airbus, Siemens and BMW.