Dear Friends, Don’t worry, everything is okay with PLM Think Tank. This short notice is to inform that I’m going to be on vacation with kids until the end of the next week. PLM Think Tank will be in an autopilot mode during that week… Best, Oleg
My prompt today is about how to improve UI. I’ve seen many times, PDM/PLM systems are trying to put as much as possible information and basically lost screen real estate. Take a look on simple, obvious and powerful approach from Google Labs. So, hide your labels! Get rid of scrolling…
I had chance to write about different aspects related to SharePoint and Product Lifecycle Management. Since many of the organization are having SharePoint these days, I wanted to provide some initial guidance to the users with regards to what they can do with SharePoint? So, I decided to put five…
Interesting (and a little long) review of various options to store data on a cloud from Dr. Dobbs – Database Services, Amazon, Azure, Column Databases, SQL/XML databases and more… So what is my point here? Most we are doing in PDM/PLM is relying on traditional SQL database approaches. We need…
Product Lifecycle Management is going full speed to social tools and technologies. With two companies, PTC and DS articulated their social plans as Social Product Development and Social Innovation, no doubt this will be major move to absorb technologies, to build tools and develop best practices to involve social communication…
Mashups are new technologies came to us with The Web 2.0 era. Wikipedia: In web development, a mashup is a web page or application that combines data or functionality from two or more external sources to create a new service. The term mashup implies easy, fast integration, frequently using open…
Thank you for Jim Brown’s post yesterday. Why is implementing PLM is hard? Now, I’m officially starting my collection of different comparison of PLM vs. non-PLM vs. PDM etc. Actually, my first one was from COFES 2009 (PLM vs. non-PLM). It was Brad Holtz’s slide. You can see it here….
In one of my previous post I discussed Tagging techniques and technologies. Historically PLM was very taxonomy and built on hierarchies nature. However, I think, in today’s world, we need to change approach, we are working with data. Tagging and Folksonomies comes to the play. So, an idea I want…
My short prompt for today. Two crossing messages 1- Google Inc plans to include support for business users in its Android operating system as soon as this year, pitting it against BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, a senior executive said [for more details here]. 2- Google CEO Eric Schmidt is resigning…
What is the role of Search in PLM? This is question I want to discuss today. This year is busy for search community, Microsoft Bing and now Microsoft Yahoo agreement. I had chance to hear so many opposite opinions about search, so I decided to put this question in PLM…
