In my view, the majority of organizations are collaborating using pure email. PLM implementation has hard time to compete with email to become first class collaboration tools. I had a chance to see an interesting company DokDok making software for Google Apps that allows you to share documents separately from Gmail. The power of this idea is in simplicity and “invisible data management” capabilities.
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What is my take on this? The idea of sharing documents between Gmail is simple and powerful. Think about similar PDM/PLM tools. You can keep people to collaborate via email when managing documents hidden on shared storage. I think, we need to see more such types of “invisible data management solutions” in the future. Just my thoughts…
Best, Oleg
