Archive for May, 2013

Legacy Systems and Future Coolness of PLM Software.

Legacy Systems and Future Coolness of PLM Software.

Enterprise software sucks. How many times we’ve heard that for the last 5 years? Probably too many… I remember one of the first articles about that back in 2007 – Why Enterprise Software Sucks? by Jason Fried. The article got almost 100 comments, which confirmed that the topic does matter. Earlier…

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What CYOD means for PLM?

What CYOD means for PLM?

Do you like acronyms and buzzwords? Not much, I guess. You probably familiar with that one – BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). For the last couple of years, BYOD trend transformed and disrupted IT policies in many enterprise organizations by permitting employees to bring personally own mobile devices (laptops, tablets…

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5 Overused Buzzwords in PLM marketing

5 Overused Buzzwords in PLM marketing

Technology field is deeply surrounded with different type of buzzwords. The terminology is a complicated part of enterprise software and PLM marketing is probably one of the most confusing zones. In general, buzzwords don’t mean something bad. However, when overused can lost their meaning for customers. As part of having…

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How to rethink 3D and visual search?

How to rethink 3D and visual search?

Visual search. 3D search. For all of us in design and engineering, this topic always was fascinating. I had a chance to speak about this topic with my industry colleagues and blogged about PLM and 3D search couple of times. After all discussions, this is a simple definition of 3D search…

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PLM and Data Reuse Focus

PLM and Data Reuse Focus

Product data is one of my favorite topics. People in product development and manufacturing organizations are surrounded by digital data these days. The life 20 years ago was much easier. I remember the story about how people collaborated before CAD systems came to aerospace industry. Engineers were gathered in a…

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Office Competition Gets PLMish?

Office Competition Gets PLMish?

Office and other productivity tools are un-separateable parts of product development environment. Some of them such Microsoft Excel literally can stop product development and manufacturing in many companies. I’ve been blogging about Excel and Office many times. Couple of weeks ago, I came back to this topic with my –…

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Will PLM pickup OTT Mobile Collaboration strategy?

Will PLM pickup OTT Mobile Collaboration strategy?

Collaboration. Magic and one of the most confusing words. People are using it in so many contexts that it became meaningless. One of the main trends that was dominant for the last few years was social collaboration. Social networks and social tools went mainstream and it impacted the way business…

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PLM, Search and Findability

PLM, Search and Findability

Searching for information is a tricky thing. Search may sounds as a simple operation, but in fact,  it is translated to a complex computational, information and organizational task. Search isn’t a new problem. Lots of work was done in this domain for the last 20 years. Google clearly changed a…

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PLM Workflows and Google Actionable Emails

PLM Workflows and Google Actionable Emails

Process management is an important elements of PLM implementations. PLM systems usually offer a variety of solutions for process management – from simple message routing to complex workflow management systems. However, regardless of process and workflow complexity, all customers are interested how to integrate processes and workflows with their email…

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PLM360+NetSuite: Changing the integration game?

PLM360+NetSuite: Changing the integration game?

PLM and ERP integration is not a new topic. Step in the discussion about any PLM implementation and you will come to the topic of PLM+ERP integration in less than 5 minutes. Integration between two enterprise software suites is usually a complicated tasks which involves lots of planning, adjustments and…

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