Last week BlueKiwi and Dassault Systems announced their strategic alliance to delivery Social Innovation for PLM. I was very excited to read about it. BlueKiwi is interesting software that enables communities. Some of them are very useful, and I had a chance to use them by myself. I believe BlueKiwi…
The following press release two days ago drove my attention. Kalypso, the world’s premier innovation consulting firm, announces the launch of PLM Vivo, a new pre-configured product lifecycle management (PLM) solution designed for the food and beverage industry. If you dig inside you find out that Vivo built on top…
I think enterprise software is a lot about lifecycle. Most of enterprise software projects have a long implementation lifecycle; require time for implementation, deployment and training. Following modern 2.0 trends, PLM 2.0 is expecting to change this trend, provide more agile, open and lean the environment. In other words, “PLM…
Short but important note, in my view. Google announced their plans to have Google Chrome OS. When Google announced Google Chrome browser nine month ago, it was clear to me potential of this browser is much beyond browser only capabilities. So, where is Product Lifecycle Management in this stormy environment?…
One of the things I see very important is user adoption. We can develop brilliant technologies, but if nobody uses it, the value of these technologies will be very low. I see Process Technologies as very important for the Product Lifecycle development… One of the problems I see today is…
I was reading Oracle Web Center announcement few days ago. Browsing top down on Oracle web site, I found it very similar to SharePoint presnetation from new Microsoft SharePoint website (actually interesting side note – SharePoint web site runs on SharePoint). Web Center announcment came together with Microsoft Social Enterprise…
I think everybody wants to be open these days. We are moving from the closed world to the open world. Information exchange, News, Social Software, Enterprise 2.0… this is only short list of examples. Thinking about PLM as an industry, I came to the conclusion that our industry is relatively closed…
Short prompt. Reading interesting announcement – SAP and RIM Usher In a New Era for Enterprise Mobility. I think mobile is very promising. I had chance to mention it in few of previous posts. Complexity Kills or Three Ways to Improve PLM Adoption Connect Physical and Virtual World on iPhone?…
I was reading an amazing post by Larry Cheng: Relative Value vs. Absolute Value. This made me think about how we are developing PLM today. It seems like we are doing this with very absolute values: PLM allows you to cut costs, optimize processes, increase profits, etc. From the technology…
Interesting prompt – Microsoft published white paper – Social Computing in Enterprise. Quite interesting reading about Microsoft’s vision of collaboration and tools in Web 2.0 world. I wonder how all social computing, social innovation and social product development will co-exist together? How many social platforms we need to have in…
