SaaS is not only useful for executives to access data in the pay-on-demand subscription environment. Executives can make critical decisions in finance, plant engineering, manufacturing cycle times, supply management, and human resources capital planning. 主管人员不仅可以利用SaaS在按需付费的订阅环境中访问数据，他们还可以借助它在财务、工厂工程、生产周期、供应管理和人力资源计划方面做出关键决策。
PDM is a new enabling technology in current manufacturing, and life cycle management is an important function in PDM system. PDM技术是当前制造业的一项新兴使能技术，而流程管理是PDM系统中的一项重要功能。
In the production, the cost of man-hour, material and manufacturing is much high, the cost data is difficult to collect and the manufacturing cycle is long. So the management of the company has long been puzzled by the precise cost estimation. 在生产过程中具有工时、材料、制造费用等耗用较高、成本数据采集难度大且生产周期长的特点，成本核算一直是困扰企业生产经营的难题。
Engineering changes are inevitable to a modern manufacturing enterprise. They widely exist in nearly all departments of the enterprise during the entire product life cycle. Engineering change management is a very important activity in the daily production and operation of the enterprise. 对于现代制造企业而言，工程变更是难以避免的，它广泛存在于企业的各个部门，涉及产品的整个生命周期，是企业生产经营中一项非常重要的活动。
Collaborative product commerce ( Collaborative Product Commerce called CPC ) is a broad product design, manufacturing, business and the service of the business activities, and can provide services to the relevant personnel and the product life cycle from the management point of view. 协同产品商务（CollaborativeProductCommerce简称CPC）是一种广义上的产品设计、制造、商务等等多角度的对于企业活动的服务，并可以从管理角度对相关人员及产品全生命周期提供服务。
