PTC Windchill Maintenance Programs

Feature1 Update Services2 Gold Platinum3
Product Line Windchill Windchill Windchill
Technical support is available4 Not available 24 hours
Monday - Friday
24 hours
Seven days a week
Response time for Technical Support calls5 Not available Less than 1 hour Immediate access
24-hour Access to existing TAN's, TPI's and Knowledge database section of PTC Web Site Yes Yes Yes
Eligibility to order existing software builds at no charge. Yes Yes Yes
Eligibility to log new bug fixes and technical support calls No Yes Yes
Functional software upgrades at significant discounts Yes Yes Yes
Customer communications, including newsletters and maintenance promotions Yes Yes Yes
Automatic shipment of new software releases upon availability6 Yes Within 14 days Within 7 days
LM tools available on web Not available Yes Yes
Annual on-site licensing reconciliation7 Not available Not available Available
Remote login support8 Not available Not Available Available
On-site "critical care" technical support9 Not available Not available Up to two visits per year


1All licenses of the same general product category (i.e., MCAD or Web-based Collaboration Solutions.) Customers must purchase the same level of Maintenance Services.
2Update Services are available for the Windchill product family only and for new seat purchase only.
3Minimum of one hundred seats required for CPC Platinum Service.
4During non-business hours, PTC Technical Support will be offered in English only. For purposes hereof, "business hours" are Monday through Friday 8AM-5PM.
5Final resolution to any support call depends on the nature of the inquiry and cannot be guaranteed.
6Customer must be free from any hardware and/or software interoperability issues as identified by PTC.
7PTC reserves the right to perform a remote reconciliation(s) (via telephone or otherwise) if circumstances do no warrant an on-site visit(s).
8Remote login support will be at the discretion of PTC Technical Support. The preferred method to resolve a customer's problem will be either telephone or web. If Technical Support cannot solve the issue by such methods then Remote Login Support will be used to solve the customer's problem.
9On-site "critical care" technical support visits will be at the discretion of PTC Technical Support. If a customer's problem can be solved via telephone, that will be the method of problem resolution.