Product Data Management is the application which acts as key component of product design and development lifecycle and is mainly in use by engineering teams. It is closely tied with CAD / CAM systems, hence EAI capabilities of IT firms can be an edge here.

Specification Management is an application which supports creation, management, exchange and standardization of product specification. Firms will find tremendous domain experts for this as specification gathering is an inherent part and parcel of Services business and they excel in this. This application supplies the data to operational systems like SCM, ERP, MES, etc. Hence, firms will have an edge by utilizing its engineering capability in these enterprise systems.