Last week I had a chance to speak with Andy Sherlock of ShapeSpace. My momentary interest was caught by a blog post – Clean up for PLM published on ShapeSpace blog. ShapeSpace is a small outfit trying out the water of 3D geometrical search for CAD and PLM. I found…
It was a long time I didn’t talk about Microsoft SharePoint. I tried to recall and found that my previous significant thoughts about Microsoft SharePoint are going back almost one year ago to Microsoft SharePoint conference. Back that time, Microsoft presented their future SharePoint 2010. Few messages and publications yesterday…
Email is playing a significant role in the way every organization is management today. Organizations are run by emails these days. I’ve heard from many people. So, emails are a life blood organizes most of the company activities. Now, let’s think about product development organization. Email is the main application…
Last week I published my visual guide how to choose PLM. This post was the most popular during the whole week. So, I decide to try another one this week about Product Data Management. What do you think is the future of PDM? The demand for tight integration with CAD…
Yesterday discussion about PLM usability made me think more about how to come with ideas to improve usability of PLM systems. I wanted to come to something different than just claiming “yet another system that provides a different level of usability”. Such a type of messages is often failing when…
I decided to make an unusual post today. Because of holiday (Labor Day in USA), I spent most of the day working on emails, RSS, twits and blog comments. iPad is a primary tool in such a type of work. I had a chance to read blog article by Jos Voskuil – Which…
Summer is finally over. This is a good reason to stop talking about fancy social software and cool Apple’s features. Let’s move back to the core of design, engineering and manufacturing. Yes, I’d like to talk about Bill of Materials. The following blog article drove my attention earlier this week…
Microsoft announce SQL Server migration assistant for MySQL. It seems to me, Microsoft is thinking about how to expand their SQL tool’s market share. As a step towards this direction Microsoft is thinking how to provide an easy and smooth way to migrate from one data management system to another….
I’m continuing discussions about PDM vs. PLM differences. I’d encourage you to take a look on my previous two posts related to this topic: PDM vs. PLM: A Data Perspective and PDM vs. PLM: A Process Perspective. My next PDM vs. PLM comparison perspective is related to integration of PDM…
Cloud or SaaS application continue intriguing developers and vendors. In my view, during the last 2 years, talks around cloud and SaaS moved from the position “why?” to the position “when?”. Everybody understood, cloud is the future application delivery model and to put application stakes in a cloud space is…
