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    PTC Windchill

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/APTC offers Windchill, the company's Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform that includes BOM (a digital bill of materials) for cost and product quality control via parts-centric source of truth, dynamic and updated product change and configuration management to ensure up-to-date product information, industry standards and requirements validation and control, and role-based data access among other features.N/A

    Troop Messenger

    Score9.8 out of 10
    N/AInstant messaging for business allows people to communicate relaying information in real time. However, corporate chat app is a contemporary update to the ancient email communication cutting out time, expense and effort at the same time. Nowadays many organizations are using instant messaging for their daily business conversations. But for effective communication, an easy to use corporate chat app is vital. Troop Messenger is an enterprise-level business communication chat application. It is…N/A
    Pricing
    PTC WindchillTroop Messenger
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    Pricing Offerings
    PTC WindchillTroop Messenger
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    PTC WindchillTroop Messenger
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    80%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    80%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    PTC WindchillTroop Messenger
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of PTC Windchill and Troop Messenger
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    PTC Windchill
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    Ratings
    Troop Messenger
    9.8
    17 Ratings
    24% above category average
    Mobile Access00 Ratings9.917 Ratings
    Search00 Ratings9.717 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of PTC Windchill and Troop Messenger
    Feature
    PTC Windchill
    -
    Ratings
    Troop Messenger
    9.8
    17 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Chat00 Ratings10.017 Ratings
    Notifications00 Ratings9.917 Ratings
    Discussions00 Ratings9.617 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings9.615 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of PTC Windchill and Troop Messenger
    Feature
    PTC Windchill
    -
    Ratings
    Troop Messenger
    9.7
    17 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Video files00 Ratings9.617 Ratings
    Audio files00 Ratings9.817 Ratings
    Access control00 Ratings9.816 Ratings
    Advanced security features00 Ratings9.816 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    PTC WindchillTroop Messenger
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.0
    (6 ratings)
    9.8
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    Usability
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    User Testimonials
    PTC WindchillTroop Messenger
    Likelihood to Recommend
    PTC
    This product is perhaps typical of something that seems as though it was conceived in the 90's and has seen various appendages since, none of which do their job particularly well. Nothing in this system is efficient and all its processes demand a huge, close to maximum possible level of human effort. No doubt many companies, such as my own are spend huge amounts of money for the debateable privilege of tripling their employees workload and making them as inefficient as possible to make the administration of the system seem more important than it actually is.
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    Tvisha Systems Pvt Ltd
    Anyone who wants to have a digital collaboration space for chat, team meetings, audio-video group conferencing, screen sharing, and so on, can start using Troop Messenger. We know that the world can’t move on without communicating with each other, there’ll be no such industry or enterprise that exists where Troop Messenger can’t fit in.
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    Pros
    PTC
    • It is compatible with all devices and operating systems such as web-based, Android, and iOS.
    • It allows user to customize its interface based on their requirement.
    • It provides a digital part list with all required data like Part Name, Part No., Weight, Material, etc.
    • Searching data is so facile that one can get data without any trouble.
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    Tvisha Systems Pvt Ltd
    • Sending a single message to multiple users and multiple groups at once.
    • Any participant of the group call can add more participants to the ongoing group call.
    • Search filters help you find groups, text files, images, videos, and more in just one go.
    • It has many time-saving filters for retrieving text messages, images, videos, users, groups, etc.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    PTC
    • Extract partlist should be directly in Excel because everyone time we have to convert it to Excel.
    • ECN report formatting need improvement.
    • Many times part no doesn't go to ERP even after ERP released state.
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    Tvisha Systems Pvt Ltd
    • To my knowledge, Troop Messenger is already a complete tool, so there is no feature that is required to be improved.
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    Usability
    PTC
    Windchill is an extremely verbose and unintuitive system, with masses of unnecessary duplication of fields, convoluted workflows, unclear roles and terrible search capabilities. It is one of the worst software products I have ever seen to propose solving something that is actually factors quicker to do with manual writing and paper work
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    Tvisha Systems Pvt Ltd
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    Alternatives Considered
    PTC
    Windchill is having a great market share & its UI is simple & neat, integration with Creo & ERP system. These are the main reasons of considering Windchill by our organization.
    Incentivized
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    Tvisha Systems Pvt Ltd
    The best aspect of range in a remote setting is feeling connected. I feel as though we are all united because we can easily start a conference with our teammates, making it seem like we are all present. These very little things let us coordinate and work together in a way that was never previously conceivable. I like Troop Messenger and the ability to interact without experiencing any latency.
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    Return on Investment
    PTC
    • Saves time as all of our drawings and business instructions and procedures are housed in a central location with check-in/out capability and version control.
    Incentivized
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    Tvisha Systems Pvt Ltd
    • Our team communication and collaboration is simplified with Troop Messenger. Now that we don’t feel the need to use e-mail for checking our work requirements and updates, we check all of them in Troop Messenger and get on to work. We are able to bring non-employees, such as our customers and clients, into it to exchange business conversations. We don’t feel any negative impacts with it.
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