I was reading Oracle Web Center announcement few days ago. Browsing top down on Oracle web site, I found it very similar to SharePoint presnetation from new Microsoft SharePoint website (actually interesting side note – SharePoint web site runs on SharePoint). Web Center announcment came together with Microsoft Social Enterprise…
In one of my previous posts, I raised the question if PLM needs to develop its own process tools. Looking at the few announcements made by IBM and Siemens PLM, I asked myself the following question again: Where is PLM going regarding the implementation of Business Process Management (BPM) and…
I think that with all the hype about Product Lifecycle Management, we completely forgot about Product Data Management (PDM). Despite the fact that we don’t like to speak about PDM too much, I think that some very interesting might happen with Product Data Management in the future 1. Be integrated…
In my view, one of the things that is killing PLM the most is the level of technical details. I think PLM is overselling complexity and, as a result, moves people out of this space. PLM is perceived as complex and, as a result, a dangerous place. So, I think,…
I watched many videos and demos related to Microsoft Bing during the last few weeks. Actually, I liked the idea of a “decision engine” behind a search. So, after experimenting with different types of searches, I finally came to the conclusion that the concept of Decision Management is very close…
I was thinking about future options for PLM in today’s computing environment. In this fast moving world, there are two spaces that not widely experienced by the creators of PLM software. I’m referring to (1) Open Source; (2) Cloud Services. Using some legendary analogies, I can align each of these…
How will PLM-related software evolve on the cloud? This is actually my question for today. How will PLM get along with its big brother – the Cloud? I think we’ve spoken a lot in the past about topics related to Clouds and Product Lifecycle Management. I’ve linked a few of…
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…
I’d like to continue yesterday’s discussion about PLM basics and talk about our ability to manage history and time in Product Lifecycle Management. Since PLM is about *Lifecycles*, time and history are very fundamental pieces, I found that they are not actually managed at the appropriate level. Let’s look at…
I think that I’m not exaggerating by saying that every conversation about “collaboration” last week started from the Google Wave announcement on the Google I/O conference last week. I’ve seen many initial feedbacks in CAD/PDM/PLM related communities and spoke to many colleagues. I think that the majority of people were…
