Archive for June, 2009

Cloudy PLM: Roadmap Into The Future

Cloudy PLM: Roadmap Into The Future

How will PLM-related software evolve on the cloud? This is actually my question for today. How will PLM get along with its big brother – the Cloud? I think we’ve spoken a lot in the past about topics related to Clouds and Product Lifecycle Management. I’ve linked a few of…

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PLM Prompt: Kindle DX for PLM downstream applications?

Prompt note on Amazon Kindle DX announcement. Look Kindle DX review. It includes embedded wireless support and new native PDF support. Just my 10 cents… Think how many PDF business documents and drawing you can make available in your organization? Possible target is manufacturing, shop-floor, consumers? What do you think?

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How is PLM Collaboration Different From Social Networking?

How is PLM Collaboration Different From Social Networking?

I’ve been observing a lot of discussion related to the topic of social networking. During the last few months, I had the chance to discuss this topic with many people – customers, vendors, analysts. We have seen many product announcements in this space from many vendors – general IT software…

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6 reasons Why Google Wave will Change PLM Collaboration

 It’s impossible to speak about collaboration these days, in my opinion,  without touching Google Wave. I analyzed multiple presentations, demos, videos, analyzes and would like to present my take on the 6 top reasons as to why Wave will change today’s PLM collaboration world.  1.    Real Time Everything happens at…

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PLM Prompt: Does it make sense to create simple PLM?

I enjoyed to read Simplicity is Hard by Larry Cheng. Had few straitforward thoughts out of this. Our PLM systems are damn complex. How to make it simple? Few proposals:  1/ Flat User Inerface -no complex structures 2/ To visualize only what do you realy need  3/ Tag & Search…

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PLM Prompt: Google Apps Cloud Collaboration via Microsoft Outlook

Short prompt on seamless integration between Google Apps and Microsoft Outlook. We all know, email is one of the strongest collaboration tools available today in organization and people are using Outlook frontend as main application on desktop. Many enterprise tools (including PLM/PDM) are connected to Outllook to deliver notification, request…

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Who Owns (or Pwns?) PLM Master Data in Your Company?

Who Owns (or Pwns?) PLM Master Data in Your Company?

Continuing my series of posts about fundamental PLM topics this week, I’d like to talk about PLM data today. Below you can see my previous posts related to core PLM topics this week: Do we need to fix PLM basics? Do we have problem managing history and time in PLM? Are you…

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Do we have problem managing history and time in PLM?

I’d like to continue yesterday’s discussion about PLM basics and talk about our ability to manage history and time in Product Lifecycle Management. Since PLM is about *Lifecycles*, time and history are very fundamental pieces, I found that they are not actually managed at the appropriate level. Let’s look at…

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Do we need to fix PLM basics?

The weekend normally puts me into a much deeper thinking mode about what to discuss on PLMtwine. Since the post about Top Five Disappointing PLM Technologies, I’ve been thinking more about fundamental PLM elements, rather than about specific pieces of PLM. In additional, it was very interesting to see how…

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