Watching multiple demos and analyzes of Microsoft Gemini Project. Since a huge amount of corporate and product related data is still located in Excel and multiple local/legacy MS Access databases, this can be interesting and promising option for BI and PLM. What is your opinion? Gemini is essentially an add-in to…
Analyzing waves comes out of Google Wave presentation. I can see multiple responses and perspectives on potentail use of Google Wave for enterprise. Do you think Wave is future of PLM collaboration?
I’ve been playing with Microsoft Vine Beta last few days. For me this is sort of contextual collaboration. You can put notifications and alerts. You can use groups and places as context. Very similar to 3DLive collaboratoin in my view, but with map.
Look on this blog post –3D Warehouse from Google. Does it make sense in context of what CAD/PLM vendors are doing?
Interesting thoughts by Stephen Arnold related to On-Premise vs. SaaS software based on SAP case. Also link on Understanding SAP’s Business by Design SaaS strategy. Do you think the same analyses can be applied to PLM business?
I think language is one of the barriers for successful collaboration. Therefore, I’m really excited about a new feature in Gmail that will help to break down the language barrier – Automatic message translation between 41 languages. I think such feature can be really cool for global PLM deployment. Does…
Look on announcement of Wolfram Alpha: Today’s Wolfram Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone based on a new kind of knowledge-based computing… But I see engineering knowledge is pretty uncovered. Do you see engineers in organization can appreciate…
Cool stuff – you can run SolidWorks eDrawings on iPhone via Citrix Receiver iPhone app. http://www.pcworld.com/article/164885/new_iphone_app_makes_microsoft_office_mobile.html Actually you can do it for MS Office apps too. Does it practically make sense?
Look at this news about Google Cloud: 1. MS Office: 0. Actually, most of the discussion here is about when MS Office will die, but for the PLM minded reader I’d say – look at the customer. Automotive Supplier Valeo is on the list of PLM businesses. So, let’s discuss…
Dear Friends, I’d like to introduce a new type of discussion on Daily PLM Think Tank- PLM Prompt. Sometimes, I really want to say something short, but I cannot cut it to the 140 chars limit on Twitter:). So I will try this and if you enjoy readying this format…
