Windchill Enterprise Systems Integration (Windchill ESI) is an Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) based product, designed to integrate Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) services offered by Windchill PDMLink, with the services offered by distribution targets such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.

Windchill+ integration using ERP Connector, without using any third-party EAI software, enables the publication of product information stored in Windchill PDMLink to distribution targets in XML or JSON format. As Windchill+ is hosted in a PTC managed Azure environment, the data (response file) is published in a standard XML or JSON format to a PTC managed Azure Blob storage instead of a shared location. Customers can then use the Azure Blob REST APIs, Azure Graph APIs, or their SDKs to pull this data from the PTC managed Azure Blob storage and send it to any other ERP systems such as SAP or Oracle Applications for consumption.

Customers can use out-of-the-box or custom Windchill REST endpoints to create, update, or delete Windchill data from third-party applications like ERP or MES systems using the OAuth Authorization Code grant type.

This section describes using ERP Connector, Windchill integration with MES, ESI preferences, and distribution target attributes.