Archive for July, 2013

The battle for PLM in China has begun

The battle for PLM in China has begun

PLM is expanding and vendors are always looking for new market segments and niches. One of the well known white fields for PLM vendors was small and medium companies. Another one was industry segments like fashion and apparel, consumer production goods and others. However, I can see also geographical factor…

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e-Commerce and increased value of PLM standardization

e-Commerce and increased value of PLM standardization

Standards are tough thing. It is so hard to people to agree. Especially it is hard when competitive factor comes to play. I’m sure CAD and PLM industry veterans remember multiple standard activities in the industry for the last two decades. Some of them survived and some of them are…

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Why PLM vendors need to learn about hybrid mobile platforms?

Why PLM vendors need to learn about hybrid mobile platforms?

Mobile development is skyrocketing these days. Everybody wants to be mobile. Enterprise vendors slowly discovering the power of mobile apps. However, to develop a robust and powerful mobile applications is not a simple thing. One of the biggest challenges many enterprise developers are facing these days is diversity of mobile…

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PLM real implementations: too long to be on-time?

PLM real implementations: too long to be on-time?

One of the looongest US weekends I remember  is going to end. This is a time to get back from relaxing holiday atmosphere  to business reality. I’ve been skimming social channels and stumbled on PLM statistics posts published by my good friend and PLM blogging buddy Jos Voskuil. Navigate to…

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PLM Graph Alert

PLM Graph Alert

Graphs are fascinating. I think, we like graphs more and more these days. I like graphs a lot because in my view graphs are reflecting a variety of relationships we have in real life and computer applications. Design and manufacturing software has a lot of dependencies on graph data models….

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How to select PDM system in 5 simple steps?

How to select PDM system in 5 simple steps?

Are you in the market for enterprise system? Traditionally, the process of enterprise software selection is long, complicated and expensive. The variety of requirements, combined with the complexity of systems, specific characteristics of company, vendors, implementation, support, licenses, etc. Whoever tried to do it at least once from any side…

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Old PLM Ideas and Google Reader Death

Old PLM Ideas and Google Reader Death

Google Reader will stop today. It is official. Huffington post placed an article Google Reader is officially dead this morning with smiling photo of Larry Page. The coverage of this event was huge for the last few month. The shutdown of Google Reader energized RSS aggregation business – few companies…

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