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Document Management Integrations - Anyone Considering Office365?

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December 9, 2014
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PTC recieves a fair amount of questions about providing an integration to Office365 lately. I'm curious if there's folks out there using Office365 now and what type of connectivity you'd like to have with Windchill?

To me, the main difference is the option to use the Microsoft Office Web Applications instead of the locally installed Office applications and the content has a high probability of residing in the O365 cloud, OneDrive or an on-premise SharePoint implementation. The Office Web Apps are only supported on SharePoint and cannot be directly integrated into a non-SharePoint solution.

It seems like a "Send to Windchill" option would be nice to have, but I'm curious if there are any other use cases or needs people might have?

-Scott

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DarrenStorey

12-Amethyst

Scott,

Running multiple versions of multiple CAD apps we already have a battle sometimes with the compatibility matrix. This is what determines when we upgrade and what we upgrade to.

The main concern for us is not to compound this issue by adding compatibility of MS office into the mix. For us this means O365 support across a broad range of Windchill versions is much more important than broader O365 functionality supported on limited Windchill releases.

Regards

Darren

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cc-2

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Is there something Sharepoint can do that Windchill can't ?

I am for less systems the better and since Sharepoint can't handle CAD files, and Windchill can handle the files as Sharepoint does. My view is Sharepoint should be migrated to Windchill and sharepoint closed or kept for general blabla discussion which does not add value into the company knowledge work.

Also if you have Windchill on premise and you start using Office365 which is cloud based, that could breach some security policy, don't you think ?

Best regards

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ChrisPLM

12-Amethyst

Hi Scott,

it does not seem that many people are interested in that discussion....

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BrianToussaint

19-Tanzanite

Scott,

Our IT department is looking at implementing this. In my discussion with them, they think that it will not have any affect on Windchill. If this is not the case, could you please let me know so I can talk with them. They steamrolled Office 2013 through and are already talking about steamrolling Office 2016 through, which isn't even out.

Thanks,

Brian

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TomU

23-Emerald IV

Brian,

Right now there is no support for Office 365 (or Office 2016). You can see the current support matrix here for Windchill 10.2 M030 (see page 24):

http://support.ptc.com/WCMS/files/156056/en/Windchill10.2M030SoftwareMatrices52015.pdf

The Windchill Future Platform Support document currently says that the next major release of Windchill (either 10.3 or 11.0 depending on who you ask) will still only support up through Office 2013.

According to CS130307, support will never be added for Office 365.

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BrianToussaint

19-Tanzanite

Tom,

They are saying that we can run in a Hybrid environment so that will not be a problem unless we upgrade to an unsupported version of Office.

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GKelly

11-Garnet

Hi Scott,

I have a few questions:

The latest support matrix doesn't show support for Office 2016 products, should it or will it?
- Are there any known issues with Office 2016 and Windchill 10.2 M030 or Windchill 11?
Why is Visio left off the list? Is it still supported or will it continue to be supported?