A blog by Oleg Shilovitsky
Information & Comments about Engineering and Manufacturing Software

PLM, Interoperability and Cloud

PLM, Interoperability and Cloud
Oleg
Oleg
28 July, 2010 | 1 min for reading

I read Microsoft Talked Open Data, Open Cloud and watched Microsoft’s Jean Paoli video. It seems to me, Microsoft is taking seriously the topic of heterogeneous development environment, IT, cloud and data together.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELkM2Yrzg24&]

Some of the ways in which Microsoft demonstrates their committment to these four elements include:

  • Support for and participation in standards organizations such as OASIS, W3C, ECMA, ISO and OpenID.
  • Support for data portability using OData.
  • Support for multiple languages including .NET, Java, PHP and Ruby when developing cloud applications.
  • They also make it easy to move data in and out of SQL Azure, Windows Azure Storage and Live Contacts using an API.
  • The ability to manage identity across on-premise and cloud based applications.

Paoli’s talk and Microsoft presentation made me think again about PLM interoperability. Interoperability is long and a very painful issue in CAD and PLM industry. I think, with the introduction of cloud platforms, we may discover a renaissancein of the interoperability discussions.

What is my take? One important statement made by Microsoft- “Data belongs to users“. You can take it to the cloud and retrieve it back. Company owns the data. I think this is an important statement. PLM industry needs to think about it. Just my thoughts…

Best, Oleg

Recent Posts

Also on BeyondPLM

4 6
4 May, 2025

Back in 1992, Bill Clinton’s campaign faced a tough political climate. His team needed a simple, focused message to cut...

16 May, 2009

Cool stuff – you can run SolidWorks eDrawings on iPhone via Citrix Receiver iPhone app.  http://www.pcworld.com/article/164885/new_iphone_app_makes_microsoft_office_mobile.html Actually you can do...

19 August, 2014

Do you know what is legacy software? Earlier today,  Marc Lind of Aras Corp. challenged me by his twitter status...

9 February, 2014

One thing doesn’t fit all in engineering and manufacturing. Every manufacturing company is trying to innovate and differentiate the way...

14 October, 2019

For the last 5-7 years, we can see an increased presence of cloud technologies in enterprise and business software. For...

14 December, 2017

2017 was a year of chatbots. I posted about chatbots a year ago in my article  Will chatbots simplify user experience?...

2 January, 2017

IoT is a topic that raises many debates these days. Speaking to engineering and manufacturing IT people I can see...

27 October, 2017

Single version of truth is a mantra sold by most of enterprise software vendors. PLM is included. I think, PLM...

22 October, 2010

Few weeks ago, I had a chance to attend a webinar – Learn How PLM Propels Innovation at Mercury Marine....

Blogroll

To the top