One of my earlier articles The death of MBOM and EBOM divide raised interesting debates earlier this week. You can follow comments on LinkedIn. My special interest was caught by the discussion about the Bill of Materials and data management. Mathias Ahrens, PLM solution architect brought his dream data management…
Relational databases are the foundation of every traditional PLM system. Over the past 30 years, we’ve seen the evolution of PLM database technologies and their adaption to serve very specific needs of PLM systems – management of highly structured data and large data sets. As PLM vendors are moving their…
IoT is one of the recent popular buzzwords in business and consumer world. I’ve been touching it in few of my previous posts – 3 Things PLM can do with IoT tomorrow and PLM and IoT common trajectories . Things changed from 2009 when I first time touched PLM and Internet of Things….
Boston is one of the rare places where you meet many CAD and PLM people at the same time at the same place. You don’t need to guess a lot why so. MIT CAD Lab, as well as many companies in this domain, made Greater Boston a unique place for…
The core fundamental part of every PDM/PLM application is database and related data model. The history of data modeling is going long back to applications with proprietary data models. The cornerstone moment was introduction of RDBMS. Not many of us remember, but the original assumption of RDBMS inventors was to…
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…
I want to talk about hardware today. You probably surprised, but I hope not so much. During the last 10-15 years, the majority of works PDM/PLM systems were doing were focused on the commodity low end x-86 servers. There is nothing wrong with that. Nevertheless, I can see some new…
The business of PDM and PLM systems are tightly connected to data. In the early days of EDM (Engineering Data Management) and PDM, developers used variety of data-management technologies – text files for meta-data, proprietary data bases and lately relational databases (RDMBS). RDBMS became a mainstream for enterprise software 15-20…
Let’s talk today about databases and database technologies. Everybody these days understands what is that… Database technology became an essential part of every application. Practically, everything we did in the past in enterprise software was dependent on databases. Specifically talking about PDM and PLM, databases and data modeling became a…
I was reading Salesforce.com announcement made earlier this month during Dreamforce 2010 conference about introduction of a new database.com platform. I found it as an interesting turn in the future cloud platform development. You can take a look on a short video introducing the new element of Salesforce.com platform. What…
