Social is a magic word many people use nowadays. After social networks “grand-success”, many people in PLM industry are thinking how to apply the power of “social” to improve existing PDM and PLM. The topic that asked by most of the people is how to improve collaboration by applying some…
How to make people to work more efficiently? I think this is an important question. This is a challenge for every product development organization. You have a team of people working on a specific project (or projects). How you can get things done in this team? Collaborative Software For a…
I’m getting back to my thoughts related to Social Software and Product Lifecycle Management. Jim Brown defined the role of Social Software as an intelligent network for PLM in his last post. It turns me back to one of my previous posts- PLM and Social Tool: The Odd Couple. I’ve…
I can see multiple debates these days related to the social software – Social Networking, Microblogging and others. Despite the absolute success of websites like Facebook and Twitter, there are still a lot of questions related to benefits of such software and experience for enterprise and product development. I see two…
I’d like to follow few very interesting discussions that happened last week. Few blog posts you probably want to read before you will continue with today’s post: Should I keep secrets from my PLM system?, Yes, Oleg, You Should Keep Secrets from Your PLM System, People Centric PLM – A New PLM…
I’m looking on SolidJott plug-in for SolidWorks. My opinion, that social tools need to be integrated into CAD environment. The main question, I’m asking -what is practical way to do so? I’ve been looking on few examples of social tools integration into CAD and design environment. Starting from joke-like-twitting-SpaceClaim and…
Well, finally it happened 🙂 (April 1 SpaceClaim Twitter AddIn Prank) – the first CAD system to present integration with Twitter. So, is it April-1 joke or something positive happens? I’d try to analyze the following product capabilities – DS 3DLive support for IM, Vuuch Design Discussion, SpaceClaim with Twitter… My conclusion…
During the weekend, I was reading Mid-Market PLM Deployment Challenges by Tom Gill from CPDA. He wrote about multiple issues customers face during the implementation of PLM systems. Tom mentioned multiple issues such as economical barriers of implementing something beyond of AutoCAD managed by Excel; the need to implement more…
