Short Prompt- what will take 3D on the cloud? I was reading interesting paper Pictures in the Cloud by Kenneth Wong. My conclusion is as following: 1. Traditional CAD will be transformed when move on the cloud. 2. Multiple 3D /CAD related services can be introduced in parallel with traditional CAD…
My prompt today is about how to improve UI. I’ve seen many times, PDM/PLM systems are trying to put as much as possible information and basically lost screen real estate. Take a look on simple, obvious and powerful approach from Google Labs. So, hide your labels! Get rid of scrolling…
Interesting (and a little long) review of various options to store data on a cloud from Dr. Dobbs – Database Services, Amazon, Azure, Column Databases, SQL/XML databases and more… So what is my point here? Most we are doing in PDM/PLM is relying on traditional SQL database approaches. We need…
Mashups are new technologies came to us with The Web 2.0 era. Wikipedia: In web development, a mashup is a web page or application that combines data or functionality from two or more external sources to create a new service. The term mashup implies easy, fast integration, frequently using open…
Thank you for Jim Brown’s post yesterday. Why is implementing PLM is hard? Now, I’m officially starting my collection of different comparison of PLM vs. non-PLM vs. PDM etc. Actually, my first one was from COFES 2009 (PLM vs. non-PLM). It was Brad Holtz’s slide. You can see it here….
My short prompt for today. Two crossing messages 1- Google Inc plans to include support for business users in its Android operating system as soon as this year, pitting it against BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, a senior executive said [for more details here]. 2- Google CEO Eric Schmidt is resigning…
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…
Short prompt – Steve Letford, technical solution specialist in Microsoft New Zealand mentioned that FAST Search Technologies will be mated with SharePoint for social networking. Looking on coming SharePoint 2010 it sounds like interesting statement. FAST, acquired by Microsoft in the beginning of the last year was targeted to reinforce…
Thinking in loud. I’m looking over many user interfaces of PLM systems and reading “Don’t make me think“. Why every PLM/PDM system is so complex? My observations (not scientific, of course): 1. 50% of User Interface features are not in use. 2. Every system I use, demanded at least 30%…
My short conclusion after very productive discussion about how to move PLM to mainstream. First of all, I enjoyed it very much. Thank you all for contribution! Second point is about people. I agree 100%, people are very important in PLM. People adoption will be key on the PLM road…
