At the heart of our product family is OpenPDM, our platform for PLM integration, migration and collaboration. It includes the connectors to PLM, ERP and ALM systems as well as other enterprise applications that are also used by our other solutions, e.g. to link product data from different domains via OpenCLM or to integrate data exchange with external suppliers into PLM processes via OpenDXM GlobalX.
Last year, we largely met our development goals for OpenPDM: We developed a new connector to the Codebeamer software for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and created an IaaS (Integration as a Service) offering between the cloud ALM solution JIRA and the also cloud-native PLM solution PTC Arena, which is hosted in PROSTEP's AWS cloud. This will enable us to better integrate software development with product development processes. We had to postpone somewhat the development of the connectors to the ERP systems MS Dynamics and Salesforce, which was planned for 2022. However, they are to be completed in the current year. There will also be new connectors to the various SAP solutions.
The roadmap for the further development of OpenPDM envisages offering the entire product suite, i.e. not only the connectors but also the Process and Mapping Engine, as a service from the AWS cloud from 2024. However, the on-premises solution will continue to exist. We will also harmonize the release cycles with those of OpenDXM GlobalX. This is in recognition of the fact that our solutions are growing closer together, not only in terms of the customer processes they support, but also in terms of software architecture.
Our OpenDXM GlobalX data exchange platform completed its migration to the new Generation 9 last year and is thus benefiting from the advantages of microservices-based software architectures and modern OpenPDM connectors, as Product Manager Daniel Wiegand explained at PROSTEP INSIGHT DAYS. We have also developed the Gallery View to visualize thumbnails of components and complete assemblies in the web client.