Archive for March, 2013

What Oracle Results Mean for PLM vendors?

What Oracle Results Mean for PLM vendors?

For many years the business model of CAD, PDM and later PLM vendors was structured as high upfront license combined with continues maintenance payments. The same is true for many other enterprise software vendors. PLM vendors built their businesses around expensive licenses sell covering significant sales cycle cost and even…

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Thoughts about PLM whitepapers and PLM processes

Thoughts about PLM whitepapers and PLM processes

Are you reading whitepapers these days? Hmm… Not much you can say, probably. I’m reading blogs, twitter streams and use Flipboard app. I think, whitepapers are getting into a crisis similar to publishing industry. It is not as popular as IBM Redbooks 10 years ago. PLM whitepapers are interesting in…

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PLM, Social Apps and How to Design Next Airplane on the Facebook?

PLM, Social Apps and How to Design Next Airplane on the Facebook?

The conversation about social software is getting more mature these days. Do you remember early period of “social software” talks. Navigate to the following link – We are not going to design an airplane on the Facebook! The discussion on Jim Brown’s blog is 3 years old. Jim brings his…

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PLM Cloud and Open Source Coopetition

PLM Cloud and Open Source Coopetition

I want to continue the theme of disruption started in my post last week. I can see two major forces that will disrupt traditional PLM approach nowadays – cloud and open source. Both have some strong position points and some weaknesses. I put some of my thoughts about cloud and open source…

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Mobile PLM and BaaS

Mobile PLM and BaaS

I learned a new buzzword yesterday. Have you heard about BaaS? Navigate to the following TechCrunch article – Kinvey Launches Enterprise Back-End Service For Building Mobile Apps That Move Data From Salesforce, Oracle And Other Sources. Kinvey is a startup that put a mission to scrap data from enterprise backend…

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3 ways to disrupt PLM today

3 ways to disrupt PLM today

Disruptive innovation, technologies, products, services… I think we like the word “disruption” these days. This is such a tasteful and colored word. It can provide a new look to anything that goes afterwards. So, let me see if I can put a disruptive color on PLM. I’ve been reading Jos Voskuil…

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Social PLM: From File Explorer to Activity Streams

Social PLM: From File Explorer to Activity Streams

Social hype is getting down. I can say it about PLM industry too. We can see less “social startups” and less marketing hype about how next big social revolution will come and solve all existing problems in PLM technologies and systems. If you want to catch up with my previous…

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Why New Database Technology Won’t Solve PLM Problems?

Why New Database Technology Won’t Solve PLM Problems?

Disruptive technologies and solutions. This is beloved topic by bloggers, analysts and vendors. We like to talk about how disruption will happen. For very long period of time, database technology was a stable element in the overall PDM/PLM technological architecture. The decision about usage of relational database was only about…

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Angry Birds Developer is Looking for PLM Job

Angry Birds Developer is Looking for PLM Job

Last week I posted about changing faces of product development following PI Congress in Berlin. One of the conclusions I’ve made is that we are starting to see a changing world of enterprise as a result of new generation of employees coming to the world of manufacturing. It is a…

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3 steps how to put PLM / ERP each in their place

3 steps how to put PLM / ERP each in their place

PLM and ERP integration. Endless topic. My PLM blogging friends – Chad Jackson and Jim Brown decided to discuss it again at their Tech4PD video blog. Even if it is presented as a debate, I found much more similarity between their statements about PLM/ERP integration rather than differences. They both agree PLM and ERP systems…

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