Increasing product complexity and the growing importance of software components poses challenges for PLM systems in modern companies and extended enterprises. Today product behavior and its processes drive product value, so companies use sophisticated software to accurately predict it before its manufacture. In this work we argue that states are a natural atomic part of any product, system or process. Then we briefly review and compare current methods for behavior and state representations in domain engineering and systems engineering practices. We show that the support provided to the engineer by PLM systems in managing and sharing behavioral and state product properties across an extended enterprise is insufficient in comparison to their significance for successful product development and its complete life cycle.