Coming question from Business Intelligence space. There are already several companies dealing with cloud BI – Pentaho, Good Data Corp. and some others. At the same time, as it appeared in Computerworld, Microsoft is postponing their plans for BI on a cloud until 2013. It initially announced as Windows Azure…
SaaS, On Demand, Cloud Services… Who is not speaking about these cool future capabilities these days. So, I was thinking what will be future of PLM On Demand. If you feel yourself not familiar with SaaS concepts, I’d recommend you to check this excellent video: History of PLM related on…
Loud prompt – Microsoft is releasing Office 2010 version, which will include free Office 2010 browser version. Take a look also on some analysis on eWeek article. This is something that potentially can be very disruptive for PLM portion of collaboration, which relies on sharing and non-3D and unstructured information….
Note toward future. After long Microsoft related discussion about Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010, final, and more future oriented, prompt about coming Microsoft Azure platform. Microsoft will not be first in this cloud-services game. Nevertheless, may be some of PLM providers will find benefits to run on top of all…
Short note. Google released the package that allows to move from IBM Lotus Notes to Google Apps. Take a look on interesting video and Google blog with some interesting customer references. My prompt today – should PLM world be worried? I think yes, since mail is one of the fundamental…
The key part of all news about Office 2010 is free, browser based version of Microsoft’s most popular Office products. I can say, for the moment, well done Microsoft. When I’m pretty sure Microsoft mostly thoughts about growing Google Apps when decided to release a free browser version of Office…
Short note this morning. I was impressed to see Google Labs product – Google Fusion Tables. This is Google’s experimental data management system on cloud. You can upload your data, filter, visualize (i.e. Map) on Google map and collaborate with other people… Sounds interesting? I think so…
How will PLM-related software evolve on the cloud? This is actually my question for today. How will PLM get along with its big brother – the Cloud? I think we’ve spoken a lot in the past about topics related to Clouds and Product Lifecycle Management. I’ve linked a few of…
It’s impossible to speak about collaboration these days, in my opinion, without touching Google Wave. I analyzed multiple presentations, demos, videos, analyzes and would like to present my take on the 6 top reasons as to why Wave will change today’s PLM collaboration world. 1. Real Time Everything happens at…
Short prompt on seamless integration between Google Apps and Microsoft Outlook. We all know, email is one of the strongest collaboration tools available today in organization and people are using Outlook frontend as main application on desktop. Many enterprise tools (including PLM/PDM) are connected to Outllook to deliver notification, request…
