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PLM and One Big Spreadsheet

Everybody in the engineering and manufacturing loves MS Excel. I had chance to write about it multiple times before. You can take a look on few of my previous talks about MS Excel and PLM- Why do I like my PLM Spreadsheets? and PLM Excel Spreadsheets: From Odes to Woes….

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PLM And New Types Of User Experience

User experience is important. It comes with all cool gadgets, Web 2.0 websites and iPhone apps. I think, people started to understand it even in enterprise organizations. I can hear lots of people voices asking when enterprise tools will become cooler than today. The obvious answer of PLM and other…

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PLM Collabration and Gmail Contextual Gadgets

Content is a King. If you create valuable content in your app, you can do whatever you want. Since everybody needs you. However, what if the nature of your app is not to deal with content, but help people to collaborate? My take on this point is that “context” becomes…

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Will Google App Store Disrupt PLM?

I think, it is always fun to talk about next disruption. When you are doing so, you have a real feeling something happens. Therefore, I had a real pleasure to read Jim Brown’s ClarityOnPlm about future PLM disruption. The name of the blog “Who will disrupt entrenched PLM vendors” was…

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First PLM Lessons From Google Buzz

First PLM Lessons From Google Buzz

Google introduced a new product yesterday – Google Buzz. It is still very new, but I think, the message is clear. Google finally decided to step into massive social place allocated today by multiple social nets and communication tools. It is too early to say how Google Buzz will evolve…

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Vuuch, Social PLM and Google Wave Evaluation…

Vuuch, Social PLM and Google Wave Evaluation…

Last year I had chance to talk about social aspects of PLM with Chris Williams from Vuuch.com. Moving enterprise software into the “social” direction is a very interesting aspect. The main change I see in this approach is that element of people communication becomes a main driver force for system…

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PLM Prompt: 3D Publishing, CAD and Online Google Graphic…

The idea of 3D publishing isn’t new. For the last few years we had chance to see multiple examples of how CAD and PLM companies focused on this space by creating and acquiring products that can publish complicated 3D models in the way humans outside of engineering will be able…

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Google Wave PLM Use Cases

The Google Wave invites pushed to the community for the last 1-2 months are starting to bring some fruitful results. The number of pilots, prototype, demos and other activities related to Google Wave started to growth. I already posted on very interesting, in my view, business process building collaboration tool…

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PLM Prompt: Google Site API enables PLM collaboration?

Interesting blog post from Google Enterprise. Import, Export and more with Google Sites API. What turns Google Sites to much more configurable and available for customization and tweaks for different cloud based scenarios. Google Blogs comes with two scenarios: 1/Open/Import projects; 2/ SharePoint Move for Google Sites. I’d not be…

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