Zcommand

Who is Zweave?

Zweave, Inc. is a leader in On-demand Design Automation Software, serving the needs of federal and consumer product development organizations. For the thousands of people working in organizations that design, source and manufacture consumer products, Zweave's software solutions make it as easy as possible to manage and share product development information anywhere, anytime. With Zweave's On-demand software delivery model, product development organizations eliminate the need for costly up front software licenses. Zweave's lower cost of ownership and quicker time to value benefit product development organizations of any size.

 

What is Zweave's Mission?

New best practices and powerful technologies have emerged that will transform new product development process into powerful “engines” of growth, profitability, market share and competitive advantage. The key is to leverage Internet-based technologies and best practices that leverage the best of a team’s knowledge, insight and talent and that of key suppliers and customers. Zweave is the leader in clothing and equipment industry Collaborative Product Lifecycle Management solutions. Our team of fashion industry and technology experts continues to research and develop emerging technologies that are transforming the product lifecycle industry.

 

What can Zweave do for me?

The mission of Zweave is to transform product development in the defense and safety inndustries, by bringing people and information together in a virtual workplace. Zweave provides a comprehensive suite of On-demand products for the emerging PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) and Design Automation markets. Zweave’s products, Zcommand and Zdesign are proven, reliable and easy to implement. They drastically reduce costs and time-to-market across the entire product design-to-delivery life cycle. With Zweave, product development teams will hold virtual meetings, share information in secure communication, preserve the company’s knowledge assets, and provide staff with the most significant advances in collaboration tools designed for the fashion industry.

 

Who is developing Zweave's Products?

Zweave has brought together technology leaders from manufacturing, Internet, systems integration and management consulting fields with fashion domain experts. This team unites strategic technology leaders and experienced fashion product development talent in proven technology products and solutions for the Fashion Industry. The Founders of Zweave have a track record for delivering successful projects. Zweave’s products were funded by the Department of Defense through the prestigious SBIR program. Zweave is the recipient of seven SBIR grants. Zcommand is the commercial release of Zweave’s Federal products CPLM and Zcommand, developed for the leading clothing and equipment program management offices for the Navy, the Army and the Marine Corps. Zweave’s products are used to support the development of next generation military products.

 

What would be the ideal environment for Product Development?

Companies need a way to access all the information related to their activities - a way to organize the increasingly complex and accelerated activity of Product Development - a way to integrate their existing IT structures. The product development segment of the Defense industry will benefit from a secure, global communication platform for a fashion manufacturers’ product development and sourcing data to be shared, stored and managed, using state of the art, web-enabled technology. To answer this need, Zweave has created a suite of products and services that correspond to the critical needs faced by the Defense industry today.

 

What does On-demand mean?

Zweave will maintain all of the necessary infrastructure required to deliver Zcommand to your users. This includes the hosting facility; the associated hardware and software; and all personnel required to deliver development, deployment, and support services. Zcommand is not just a “product” in the typical software sense of the word, i.e., it’s not a software package, a CD or a download.

 

Zcommand is.

- Access to web-based software

- Services and support

- 24x7x365 monitoring of your infrastructure

- Enhanced new features and upgrades at a fraction of the cost

- Yearly or monthly subscription fees

 

Are There Other Alternatives to the On-demand model?

You may choose to purchase services from Zweave to configure Zcommand then deploy the software and hardware inside your organization. This “At Client” service delivery requires your investment in hardware and software, internal resources to monitor and maintain the service, discretionary budget commitment for future capital costs, and typically a service contract from third-party vendors for hardware and software support. Since Zcommand is a mission critical solution, care must be taken to ensure that the architecture placed on your premises can deliver a high-availability IT service. This includes your consideration for network reliability, testing and development platforms, redundant architecture, fail-safe backup facilities, data backup process, and many other considerations. In some cases, if Zcommand becomes highly customized, requires minimal ongoing support to maintain, and can be managed with an IT infrastructure that is affordable, the on-premise solution may be the right choice for you.

 

What are Zweave's products and services?

Products: Zcommand - a Virtual Portal connects participants in fashion product development organizations, and manages the time-critical communications between trading partners, bringing together members of product development teams from design, sourcing, manufacturing, sales & marketing. Zcommand is project-based, which parallels the basic work unit for all product development driven companies and mirrors their activities. Product development teams can initiate projects online, invite members of their internal and external teams to participate and conduct all of their business activities and communications in one place, from anywhere, anytime. Its technology can be configured to interface with and support any legacy or IT system including ERP, SCM, PDM and CAD. Zcommand is made of an integrated suite of Web based portal applications that support the major activities of product development teams and includes: Portfolio Command, Material Command, Fit Command, Color Command, Design Command, Sample Command, Production Command.

 

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System Benefits

- Simple and easy to use

- Training designed for a Defense Industry audience

- On-demand enables quick start at low costs

- Easy to configure

 

Business Benefits

- Enabling concurrent design

- Reducing time to market

- Improving design productivity

- Improving Product Development quality

- Better management of product data

- Safeguarding data integrity

- Greater Process Visibility

- Value Chain Accountability

- Reduced Markdowns

- Delivery Accuracy

- Sales Driven Reorder

- Cross Brand Line Plans

- G&A Expense Reduction

 

Why implement Zcommand?

- To eliminate the costs of inefficient product development activities

- To establish control and transparency of all product development and procurement processes

- To support the brand promise and stated company mission

- To support incremental product development cycles per year

- To become an early adopter of product development technologies

- To manage suppliers, agent and factory relationships

- To develop more “NEW & Innovative” products

- To improve portfolio management discipline

- To coordinate product design across the entire line

- To predictably drive fielding efforts

- To improve visibility & control of the product development process

- To increase productivity of your product development talent

- To access complete product information throughout design

 

Is it secure?

Zcommand is totally secure – you decide what information is made available to which participant, and you can modify these choices at any time and on any project with complete flexibility. Our hosting service level agreements meet the standards of the U.S government and they should meet yours too.

 

How do we get started?

You can opt to try our products or buy our products. Go to our demo center and sign up for free demos, trials and more. Our representatives can help you understand the value of our products and how they align with your current strategies and needs.

 

How long does it take to get started with Zcommand?

Zcommand is an on-demand solution; you log in and start working. There is no down time installing servers, downloading software, configuring desktops. All you need is a high-speed Internet connection and the willingness to try. When you start out with Zcommand you will require several hours of training for the members of your team and the IT people supporting them. Depending on your specific needs and the skill of your administrator you can easily learn to configure parts of our solution to support the first steps of setting up your Zcommand instance:

 

- Who is using the system, their groups and permissions and security levels, names and email   addresses?

- How do you want to structure your portfolios and product lines?

- What data do you want to bring in from other systems?

- What libraries do you want to create?

- Who will use what Commands?

 

Can I hire Zweave to help me with implementing their solution?

Zweave provides support, training and services to support your successful project launch and maintenance. Our approach is to let you do as much as you want with out us, OR, support you entirely. It’s your choice. For more information on our services, visit the service part of our website.

 

What ROI does Zcommand provide?

Strategic ROI - through rapid implementation and lower cost of ownership:

- Accelerate product and process delivery

- Build loyalty amongst trading partners

- Grow market share-develop new and innovative products

- Capitalize on supplier competencies and capacity

- Improve marketplace agility

- Decrease cost of product development

- Leverage current investment in systems

- Increase control of total business operations and communications

 

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Why is Zcommand superior to existing solutions?

Zcommand is the only PLM solution designed for the Defense Industry that supports product development teams with tools that they can understand and leverage. Zcommand is not a generic application built for other industries and adapted for the Defense industry as an after thought. Zcommand’s on-demand model puts the power in your hands and supports businesses of any size from a small project team to a PMO. Zcommand was built for product development specialists by product development specialists, not software engineers who no nothing about the way business is done today.

 

Will Zcommand save time and money?

Zcommand has been proven to save approximately 25% in time and up to 30% in costs for product design and development. Compared to PDM and PLM solutions on the market today, Zweave is a cost effective, efficient way to support any design business with state of the art, next generation IT solutions.