Archive for July, 2013

Why PDM stuck in non-web age?

Why PDM stuck in non-web age?

Web as a platform. You can hear many conversations about that nowadays. Started as cloud talks, it comes more to the point where we can see  the discussion about how “world wide web” is changing user experience and computing paradigms. One of the strongest trends coming on top of massive…

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PLM and Google enterprise numeric factoids

PLM and Google enterprise numeric factoids

Google is making lots of things these days. The list includes search, data centers, mobile phones, tablets, wearable devices, self driving cars and more… The question about Google and PLM is one that very often drives rumors and lots of speculations. It usually comes from the side of analyzes applied…

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Social PLM, Graphs and Organizational Overlap

Social PLM, Graphs and Organizational Overlap

Social tools are capturing lots of noise and making real impact these days. After initial hype of MySpace and early days of Facebook, social networks is getting down to real business, profit and smart technology. LinkedIn engineering publication earlier today speaks about some smart engineering work done by LinkedIn engineers…

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How PLM will embed information in products?

How PLM will embed information in products?

Experience is a new modern hype. You can see it everywhere these days. User experience, selling experience, learning experience, total experience, etc. You can continue the list… I want to talk about  “product experience” today. This is obvious and new at the same time. Manufacturers are interested to know more…

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Why PLM needs Drawing Boards 3.0?

Why PLM needs Drawing Boards 3.0?

Touch interface is changing the way we work and think. You can see it everywhere these days. Engineers are not exclusion from the list – many companies these days are looking how to change the way they operate using mobile and other touch devices. Few months ago I was talking…

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How to ditch old PLM marketing and friend engineers?

How to ditch old PLM marketing and friend engineers?

There is a chasm between old and new schoolers these days in many places and industries. I wonder if PLM will be different and will keep old school formation in everything – business models, marketing, technical solutions, etc. Few months ago I posted – PLM, Viral Sales and Enterprise Old…

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Cloud PLM and future of upgrades

Cloud PLM and future of upgrades

Upgrades are painful. Everyone in enterprise business knows that. If you are using multiple enterprise systems, ongoing upgrades can become a major IT activity for long time, will take resources and money. Usually, it involves updates of software, updates of customization and additional related application and data. The problem of…

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Product Data Cleanup Importance

Product Data Cleanup Importance

There is one project in data management everybody tries to avoid: legacy data import. It’s one of the most complicated, time consuming, and painful aspects of any PDM and PLM deployment. Importing data usually lead to lots of problems – how to clean data, how to important data, how to…

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PLM, Information Discovery and Excel Provisioning

PLM, Information Discovery and Excel Provisioning

Excel is one of the most widely accepted PLM systems. PLM vendors and consultants may disagree with this strong statement. Despite that, I believe the amount of product data that lives today in Excel spreadsheets spread around organizational servers and cloud storage like Dropbox and Google is huge. The main…

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Future of PDM with Dropbox Datastore API

Future of PDM with Dropbox Datastore API

Every software application developer has a dream. This dream is to become a “platform”. This is such a sweet moment – everybody wants you, everybody needs you, everybody wants to develop on top of your API. However, to become a true platform is a really tricky thing. I’ve been reading…

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