Daily PLM Think Tank

Cisco EOS or How to Make Manufacturing Companies Social?

For the long period of time CAD/CAE/PDM/PLM were recognized as tools for product development and manufacturing. However, modern trends, moving PLM to the space where the ability to be exposed to consumers, building communities and have social interaction becomes extremely important.  If you are in the business of product development,…

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Key Success of SharePoint – What Should PLM Learn?

Key Success of SharePoint – What Should PLM Learn?

I’ve been thinking about Microsoft SharePoint success in enterprise organizations. For the last few years Microsoft leapfrog in their ability to provide SharePoint-based solutions. I will put below few points that in my view are the foundation of this SharePoint success. 1. Basic solution for share files and portal availability….

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Vuuch, Social PLM and Google Wave Evaluation…

Vuuch, Social PLM and Google Wave Evaluation…

Last year I had chance to talk about social aspects of PLM with Chris Williams from Vuuch.com. Moving enterprise software into the “social” direction is a very interesting aspect. The main change I see in this approach is that element of people communication becomes a main driver force for system…

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Top 10 PLM Posts of 2009, Beyond PLM and more…

Top 10 PLM Posts of 2009, Beyond PLM and more…

It’s over. 2009… The loooooong weekend was a perfect time to think about last year, summarize, statistics, reviews, read an unlimited number of future predictions and analyzes of past predictions and what is mostly important think about coming 2010. So, first what I’ve got. Top 10 post We discussed Google…

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How To Visualize PLM Excels using Microsoft Pivot?

If you haven’t had chance to see Microsoft Live Lab Pivot project, please do. I found this approach as somewhat very interesting. The idea of data visualization is not new. However, the key question is how to make it simple? My view is that “collections” of data are a very…

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New Year Wishes to PLM Industry in 2010.

We are very close to the New Year Eve and this is time to come prepared with your wishes in the New Year. 2009 was the year of confusion – new economical reality, declining revenues, new type of competition, new social software trends. So, I’m sure some lesson learned in…

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Top Five PLM Software Challenges for 2010s

We are coming to the new decade, and I found interesting to drop my thoughts related to what I’d expect in 2010s from Product Lifecycle Management. I think last 10 years were the period of initial introducing of PLM concepts on the market. Initial came in early 2000s as a…

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Happy Holidays!

Dear Friends! Seasons Greetings from Daily PLM Think Tank! I wish you great Holidays and Happy New Year! Best, Oleg

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Will Mashups Grow Up In PLM?

Short prompt to think about before Holiday break. Mashups. First coming to us with the world of Web 2.0 and dynamic web site content, mashup becomes an interesting function in many web applications. I think mashups are still very tiny business industry, but this technology was very successful in my…

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Why Do We Need PLM to Control Product Cost?

I’d like to continue discussing topics that create maximum confusion between PLM marketing and reality. Today, I want to talk about one, that probably in the top list of all manufacturers – product cost. Yes, you want it down, no doubt. If you will talk to PLM marketers, they will…

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