In the early beginning of the Internet in the late 80s of 20th Century, MIT professor Tom Malone started to think how Internet will re-shape industry landscape in 21st Century. In a series of papers, he predicted that huge top down corporations would soon decentralize and transform themselves into industry…
Short prompt – I’m looking on definition of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Product Information Management (PIM). Product lifecycle management (PLM) is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from its conception, through design and manufacture, to service and disposal. [1] PLM integrates people, data, processes and…
I think we are moving fast toward combination of virtual and physical worlds. How we can get closer and combine our experience in these two words? In one of my previous prompts “Combine virtual and physical map overlay with G1″, I discussed how possible to merge physical and virtual maps. Today…
During last week, I’ve been discussing with one of my long time friends different types of enterprise systems. Very fast we came to the conclusion that using TLA (Three Letter Acronyms), we stack very fast, and actually we need to figure out what is practically inside and what are those…
Note toward future. After long Microsoft related discussion about Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010, final, and more future oriented, prompt about coming Microsoft Azure platform. Microsoft will not be first in this cloud-services game. Nevertheless, may be some of PLM providers will find benefits to run on top of all…
I’m thinking, how PLM can become leaner and efficient. In today’s economical situation and even in general, to make PLM leaner will be good step. So, where is the problem? I see 3 fundamental factors that prevent PLM from do so: PLM creates to many high-level expectations. PLM is trying to change…
Short note. Google released the package that allows to move from IBM Lotus Notes to Google Apps. Take a look on interesting video and Google blog with some interesting customer references. My prompt today – should PLM world be worried? I think yes, since mail is one of the fundamental…
The key part of all news about Office 2010 is free, browser based version of Microsoft’s most popular Office products. I can say, for the moment, well done Microsoft. When I’m pretty sure Microsoft mostly thoughts about growing Google Apps when decided to release a free browser version of Office…
I’ve been reading amazing post by Larry Cheng about learning. “Look back 3–5 years from today and ask yourself if you could have been substantially more effective at your past job in your present form. If you look back a few years and feel like in comparison to who you are today,…
In the past, I had chance to discuss many of the available MOSS 2007 features and capabilities on PLM Think Tank. So far, we are moving forward, and SharePoint 2010 is coming on our horizon. When I’m still hoping to see the actual product in October, I will try to…
