PTC and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced a planned collaboration to develop Converged IoT Solutions combining PTC's ThingWorx IoT platform with HPE's Edgeline Systems hardware and data services. The companies aim to demonstrate a pre-tested hardware and software combination that enables customers to more effectively manage IoT data and make decisions from sensor data. PTC and HPE will showcase their latest combined solution at the IoT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona, focusing on industrial use cases and including sensors, edge computing, analytics, machine learning and augmented reality.

1. PTC and Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Collaborate on Internet of Things
Solutions
Leading IoT Companies Focus on IoT Innovation to Deliver Business Value
BARCELONA, Spain and NEEDHAM, Mass. – October 24, 2016 –– PTC (NASDAQ: PTC) and
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced today a planned collaboration to facilitate the
availability of the Converged IoT Solutions, based on PTC ThingWorx software and HPE Edgeline
Systems. As planned, the collaboration will focus on industrial use cases, incorporating PTC’s
ThingWorx®
IoT platform technologies and HPE’s hardware and data services. PTC and HPE will
demonstrate the latest example of the combined solution at IoT Solutions World Congress from
October 25 to October 27 in Barcelona, Spain.
The planned collaboration of HPE, a global leader in computing and data processing, with PTC, a
leader in visualization and augmented reality, is expected to result in the availability of a pre-tested
best-in-class hardware and software combination that will enable customers to solve IoT data
management problems and make decisions from sensor data more effectively. As planned, the
collaboration between PTC and HPE would demonstrate complete hardware and software
technologies specifically designed for IoT edge computing and smart, connected solutions. This
includes sensors, edge compute, real-time edge analytics, machine learning, and augmented
reality.
The demonstration at IoT Solutions World Congress builds off of these technologies that are
currently being featured at HPE’s IoT Innovation Lab in Houston, Texas, and at leading industry
events such as PTC’s LiveWorx®
event.
“Companies working together to solve industry challenges is the fastest way to accelerate IoT
innovation and bring about meaningful business value,” said Andrew Timm, chief technology
officer, PTC. “Our work to date with HPE demonstrates what is possible when two leading IoT
companies come together with a mutual goal of addressing some of the IoT’s foremost challenges
and creating new IoT solutions.”
“The IoT promises access to immense amounts of pent up data which hold great insights that
enable customers to accelerate business, engineering, and scientific outcomes. The HPE Edgeline
Converged IoT Systems coupled with Aruba connectivity and PTC’s leading technologies are a
strong combination for unleashing these data and insights for our customers,” said Dr. Tom
Bradicich, VP & GM, Servers and IoT Solutions, Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
Connect with PTC and HPE at IoT Solutions World Congress
PTC and HPE will be demonstrating an exampleof their latest combined IoT technology at IoT
Solutions World Congress in Barcelona. PTC will be at booth D561 and HPE will be at booth D519.
Additionally, PTC and HPE will deliver a keynote presentation on the ways that the IoT enables

2. business value on October 27, 2016 from 16:15 - 17:00 in Room 1: Accelerating Insights at the IoT
Edge (BT13) with HPE’s Olivier Frank and PTC’s Andrew Timm.
Additional companies exploring IoT opportunities with PTC and HPE include National Instruments,
OSIsoft, and Deloitte.
To connect with PTC at IoT Solutions World Congress, please contact Greg Payne, PR &
Communications Manager, at gpayne@ptc.com.
Additional Resources
 Harvard Business Review: “How Smart, Connected Products are Transforming Companies,”
authors PTC CEO Jim Heppelmann and Harvard Professor Michael Porter
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry leading technology company that enables customers to
go further, faster. With the industry's most comprehensive portfolio, spanning the cloud to the data
center to workplace applications, our technology and services help customers around the world
make IT more efficient, more productive and more secure.
About PTC (NASDAQ: PTC)
PTC has the most robust Internet of Things technology in the world. In 1986 we revolutionized
digital 3D design. Now our leading IoT and AR platform and field-proven solutions bring together
the physical and digital worlds to reinvent the way companies create, operate, and service
products. With PTC technology, global manufacturers and an ecosystem of partners and developers
can capitalize on the promise of the IoT today and drive the future of innovation.
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Forward Looking Statements
Certain statements contained in this press release, including statements regarding the potential
collaboration between PTC and HPE and potential combinedsolutions, constitute forward looking
statements. There are a number of important factors that could cause results to differ materially
from those described in this press release, including that PTC and HPE may never enter into a
formal binding agreement and that any collaboration may not result in viable commercial solutions.
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