Social PLM is not cool any more. The article Why is Social PLM DOA? from PLMJim popped up in my twitter stream earlier today and drove my attention to social PLM topic again. In my view, it gets nasty this time. We loved the idea of social communication and how to…
My recent post about top pros and cons to have a special CAD file sharing tools drove some interesting conversation and controversy from Hardi Meybaum of GrabCAD. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you can start here – Why using Dropbox, Github or Box for CAD sharing is…
Everybody speaks today about big data. It is probably one of the most overhyped and confused terms. It goes everywhere and means different things depends who you are talking to. It can be data gathered from mobile devices, traffic data, social media and social networking activity data. The expectations are…
It is not unusual to hear about PLM as a single system capable to drive overall product development processes in the organization. Even more, if you look over PLM vendors marketing materials you can see many nice pictures and charts that will show you how to organize single PLM system….
Enterprise software business is complicated. It often comes with questions of system responsibilities and ownerships. IT usually holds primarily responsibility for cross company software stack. At the same time, divisions and departments often try to influence IT and make their own decision related to what software to use independently. One…
There are almost as many cloud storage services as clouds in the sky these days. Cloud opens a huge opportunity to simplify data sharing. The need to share data is clear. The demand for CAD data and files sharing is growing as a result of trends such as – globalization,…
Tagging is one of the most popular ways to classify information. Tagging became a mainstream way to classify information in almost every web application these days. Initially introduced on photo sharing websites, tagging expanded almost everywhere. Tagging is an important feature of every “Web 2.0” solution. You can read more…
Salesforce.com is well know CRM provider. More than that, Salesforce.com is well know by pioneering SaaS and later Cloud applications. If you follow Salesforce closely you can see that company is strongly moving into direction to become a platform. There are many confirmation to that. AppExchange is one of them…
The life of IT departments is complicated these days. What was IT kingdom 10 years ago gone forever. IT is loosing the battle of the the ability to control what users are doing as well as where they store information. If you are not familiar with the term, you better…
Do you remember live without Google? It was only 15 years ago. You should agree, information was less available back that days. Fast forward – good news! Google made a change to its Web search system. ReadWrite Web article says – Now You Can Ask Google Search To Compare, Filter…
