A blog by Oleg Shilovitsky
Information & Comments about Engineering and Manufacturing Software

PLM and Enterprise Search: can we leverage it in downstream applications?

PLM and Enterprise Search: can we leverage it  in downstream applications?
olegshilovitsky
olegshilovitsky
15 December, 2008 | 1 min for reading

The benefits of search solution are obvious. It helps you to find what do you need. Over the past decade Enterprise Search emerged to the level succeeded to provide a solution for indexing documents and additional information, mostly in databases, vaults, content management systems and ERP. PLM system provides a solution to search product information, since this information is well organized and indexed inside of PLM databases and vaults. Unfortunately, this product related information and documents is not available outside of PLM world. However, this information highly demanded by many people in the organization.

Enterprise Search solutions represented by two main groups of providers – traditional providers of enterprise search (Autonomy, Exaled and others) and general search vendors (lead by Google’s GSA) trying to get into the enterprise market. Microsoft, after FAST acquisition, provide an enterprise search solution as well as SharePoint and Express Search Server solution.

Gartner positioned top companies provided enterprise search solutions in their 2008 magic quadrant (bellow).

I think Enterprise Search can be connected to PLM system. By doing that Enterprise Search will  index product data, documents and will make it available outside of engineering department for all people in the organization.

Recent Posts

Also on BeyondPLM

4 6
14 January, 2010

I want to raise the following question. How do you want your PLM application to start? I was reading the...

2 March, 2011

Choose the platform for your software becomes a new issue in 2010s. Platform was kind of easy story for the...

11 December, 2009

I got a comment on my blog yesterday stating “back to basics”. Why do we discuss advanced stuff at the...

7 September, 2018

Cloud technologies are trending. But engineers are still on the fence to decide about how to move to the “cloud...

15 March, 2011

Cloud is continuously discussed among the people in CAD/PLM industry. The opinions are varying and discussion is going up and...

20 September, 2021

Earlier today, I attended a traditional CIMdata PLM Industry and Market Forum, which CIMdata holds usually in multiple geographies. Today...

18 December, 2010

Innovation is a popular word these days. It sounds modern and trending. Everybody wants to jump to this bandwagon. I...

17 February, 2009

Microsoft finally disclosed their plan to integrate their product FAST ESP, acquired for $1.2B from a Norwegian company, one of...

27 October, 2011

Earlier this week, my attention was caught the article Cloud is Dead by Ralph Grabowski. Following some of Ralph’s thoughts,...

Blogroll

To the top