The group's principal activities are to develop, market and support product lifestyle management software solutions and related services that help manufacturers improve the competitiveness of their products and product development processes. It has aligned its two business units, windchill and mcad under a common product strategy to meet the changing needs of manufacturers. The group's design solutions encompass a broad spectrum of engineering disciplines essential to the development of manufactured products. The collaboration and control solutions of the group offer a set of business software technologies for collaboration and control throughout the product lifecycle. The software solutions of the group focus on training, consulting, ancillary product offerings, implementation and support customers worldwide.