I want to start today with twitter quote “PLM vs ERP – ERP a transactional system, not suited to manage development of product, integration of all info such as ingredients”. Well, PLM/PDM vs. ERP discussion is old, and I remember it for the last 10-15 years or even more… However,…
Another prompt today. Reading the following article “Will Social Media kill email?”. What I see is an examples of companies in different ways are trying to to position themselves as a successor of our good friend – email. I think the mail paradigm is very powerful. Mail will continue in…
There are numerous ways in which people changed way they communicate for the last decades. Email is definitely one of them. Email came to our life in the end of 80s last century and fundamentally changed communication between people and social groups. Despite significant challenges, email brings huge rational in…
I’m very happy to share article by Kenneth Wong in DE Online. One Small Step for Office, One Giant Leap for Online Collaboration. In my view, online collaboration will receive huge boost as soon as Office 2010 will be available and will be very beneficial for CAD/PDM/PLM industry. You can…
In the past, I had chance to discuss many of the available MOSS 2007 features and capabilities on PLM Think Tank. So far, we are moving forward, and SharePoint 2010 is coming on our horizon. When I’m still hoping to see the actual product in October, I will try to…
Interesting and intriguing sneak peek of SharePoint 2010 video… Looks like creators of SharePoint is trying to provide major pain relief to enterprise deployment of SharePoint for PLM. SharePoint 2010 Overview: “SharePoint is the business collaboraton platform for the Enterprise & the Web that enables you to connect & empower…
Interesting prompt – Microsoft published white paper – Social Computing in Enterprise. Quite interesting reading about Microsoft’s vision of collaboration and tools in Web 2.0 world. I wonder how all social computing, social innovation and social product development will co-exist together? How many social platforms we need to have in…
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…
We have been talking about collaboration a lot these days. I was thinking about how collaboration can happen with designers. I thought about this from two perspectives: (1) CAD and PLM collaboration development and (2) Collaborative Document and Drawing capabilities. CAD and PLM collaboration development We have seen product offerings…
