Yesterday, I had the chance to see two deliveries from Jim Brown related to PLM for mid-size companies. ENOVIA SmarTeam Express PLM Solutions Help Mid-Market featuring Jim’s white paper – Tech-Clarity Insight: Innovating Through an Economic Downturn and Jim’s blog interview One-to-One: TeamCenter Express – Expressly for Small to Midsize…
Interesting thoughts by Stephen Arnold related to On-Premise vs. SaaS software based on SAP case. Also link on Understanding SAP’s Business by Design SaaS strategy. Do you think the same analyses can be applied to PLM business?
I think language is one of the barriers for successful collaboration. Therefore, I’m really excited about a new feature in Gmail that will help to break down the language barrier – Automatic message translation between 41 languages. I think such feature can be really cool for global PLM deployment. Does…
I’d like to discuss the relationship in the organization between two major classes of software – PLM (CAD, CAE, PDM) and ERP. I think that the integration of PLM and ERP is not a new topic. There are many blog posts, researches, products and implementations done in this space. So, before…
Look on announcement of Wolfram Alpha: Today’s Wolfram Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone based on a new kind of knowledge-based computing… But I see engineering knowledge is pretty uncovered. Do you see engineers in organization can appreciate…
Do you know what technology will kick-in after-recession time? I think, everybody was too focused on the first-ever Microsoft layoff… At the same time, Microsoft is continuing to work on what they future surface. And even though everybody says that there will be nothing before 2012-13, solution was presented and…
Short news alert – Cordys enables business process automation for Google Apps. Jan Baan, founder and CEO of Cordys said that, this solution fundamentally changes the way software will be developed and deployed. How BPM on cloud may change way Product Lifecycle Management apps will be delivered tomorrow?
At the beginning of the year, I blogged about Business Intelligence and its potential connection to Product Development and PLM . Since then, thought about BI and its possible influence on product development and the manufacturing business. Let me explain why I think that there is good potential for this…
Cool stuff – you can run SolidWorks eDrawings on iPhone via Citrix Receiver iPhone app. http://www.pcworld.com/article/164885/new_iphone_app_makes_microsoft_office_mobile.html Actually you can do it for MS Office apps too. Does it practically make sense?
I think everybody cares about Bill of Materials. This is quite fundamental for everything we do in Product Lifecycle Management. I had the chance to discuss many topics related to Bill of Materials < When BOM seeks the right enterprise nanny… >, < Is it time for a synchronized Bill…
