Today PLM is the technology marching ahead with lot of new additions to its fold and its becoming a must for enterprise success. SAP & ORACLE being big names in ERP are also pulled into it due to this technology's steady progress.

SAP is a big name in enterprise solution and quick enough to venture into PLM space realizing growing importance of this technology. The biggest benifit SAP will have in future is no need of extra licence for any of the PLM application areas since they have all needed solutions like - 

• Document Management
• Engineering Change Management
• Data Classification
• cFolder for collaboration with partners and suppliers
• Product Variant configuration
• Recipe management
• Project & Portfolio management
• Quality Management
• Asset management