Archive for 2012
Will PLM cloud wait for HP?
PLM Wrappers and Motor City 1970s
Are you familiar with PLM platform diagrams? You can see lots of them in presentations, marketing materials, websites and conferences. Last year, during one of my presentations about PLM technological alternatives, I pulled bunch of these diagrams together. You can see them on the slide below. Usually, vendors call them…
5 NOs to make PLM usable
User experience. You can hear this combination of words quite often these days. PLM space is not an exclusion from that. People in enterprise software, engineering and manufacturing are starting to ask more questions about usability. There are multiple reasons for that. Think about end users – engineers, project managers,…
Why PLM is more complicated than Google?
Integration is a tough job. Especially when it comes to the enterprise software. The typical manufacturing company landscape is siloed it contains many systems – office application, email, content management, CAD, CAM, CAE, PDM, PLM, etc. Beyond that set of systems, every company has ERP and few additional enterprise systems….
How to prevent PLM and Data Openness Collision
Two words today are raising lots of discussion and controversy – Data and Openness. We live it everyday by hearing about different “data transparency” events and news. Google, Mobile, social networks, cloud- data is leaking everywhere. Even if we almost automatically considering “data leak” as something bad, many people today…
Dogfooding and PLM APIs random thoughts
PLM Implementations and PLM Egoism
PLM implementation requires the change. I’m sure you had a chance to hear about it more than one times. The idea behind that is somewhat simple – PLM implementation eventually going to change the way you are doing business, your product development processes, intercommunication between people, systems and, of course,…
PLM Collaboration and Microsoft Office 2013 Cloud Strategy
Microsoft is releasing to manufacturing Office 2013 version. For many years, Office was a symbol of Microsoft’s desktop empire. Not anymore. You can find it interesting, but the major focus on Office 2013 is… cloud. Navigate your browser to the following article – Microsoft Office 2013: Best New Features for…