Archive for May, 2012

PLM Think Tank Top 5 – May 2012

PLM Think Tank Top 5 – May 2012

Time is flying. My monthly top 5 posts are coming too fast. Which made me think about so many changes that happen in our life these days. The root cause is so-called “re-imagination” that coming from web, new devices, connectivity, new trends in user experience and… beauty. I captured “re-imagination”…

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GrabCAD + 3D Viewer = ?

GrabCAD + 3D Viewer = ?

Social, Community, Website, Engineers, Challenges, CAD, MCAD, 3D Viewer… Everybody in CAD/PLM business understand, viewer is an important component of design collaboration. So, what happened? Read yesterday announcement made by GrabCAD here. GrabCAD is going to 3D by adding viewing capabilities to their website. Here are few passages from GrabCAD…

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New definition of PLM from UK Datamation – Info Assets

New definition of PLM from UK Datamation – Info Assets

The following twitter message from @raykurland of TechniCom, NJ market research and consulting firm woke me up during the long Memorial Day weekend in U.S. According to Ray Kurland, Datamation of UK provides a new definition of PLM and even provides some implementation aspects for this definition. Datamation of the UK…

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Secured “PLM dropbox” with EMC?

Secured “PLM dropbox” with EMC?

Speak about the “cloud” in a business community and you have a chance to be slammed by “security folks”. Their primary concern is security and, sometimes, I have a feeling whatever you talk to them about, will leave them skeptical anyway. This is probably the type of people that are…

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PDM ROI: Myths or Reality?

PDM ROI: Myths or Reality?

In personal life, the justification of your buying decision is simple. You want to have the next cool device, period. In business, it is different. The magic acronym ROI (Return on Investment) will be the first question you need to answer. Cost is real thing. Benefits must be real too….

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5 candidates for Alien Technologies in PLM

5 candidates for Alien Technologies in PLM

Technological disruption is a very interesting topic. The term “disruptive technology” is overused, in my view. Nevertheless, if you can see how technological disruption can make a real play. I found the following list presented by PCWorld quite interesting and entertaining – The 10 Most Disruptive Technology Combinations. Even if…

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PLM, ERP and enterprise cloud race

PLM, ERP and enterprise cloud race

I was reading GIGAOM article Amazon and SAP put All-in-One in the cloud few days ago. According to the article SAP will soon make an appearance on Amazon EC2 cloud. Interesting enough it is connected to the fact almost all software of SAP rival Oracle is already available from the…

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Why PLM need to learn about Google Knowledge Graph?

Why PLM need to learn about Google Knowledge Graph?

Last week was clearly Facebook week. However, if you had a chance to take your head out of Facebook IPO and Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan wedding, you probably noticed an interesting news that came out of Google. It called Google Knowledge Graph. If you never heard about it, start with Google’s blog post –…

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Will PLM vendors dig into Big Data?

Will PLM vendors dig into Big Data?

Big data is hyping trend these days. Many people is using the term of big data for different purposes and situations. Here is a problem of big data in a nutshell, how I see it. The data is growing. It is growing in organizations and outside of organizational boundaries. It…

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PLM Business Models, Open Source and Copyleft Decline

PLM Business Models, Open Source and Copyleft Decline

I was reading IT World article early today – GPL, copyleft use declining faster than ever. It gives an interesting analyzes in the so-called “open source” field. Despite the broad definition of “open source software”, the debates about different flavors of open sources are on going. I was following Open…

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