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
