Today I would like to discuss PLM integrations. I see PLM as a business software that heavily relies on integration. You need to integrate PLM with multiple design, manufacturing and business systems. Manufacturing companies are using a huge set of multiple systems as a result of their operational history, acquisitions…
There is no doubt a search changed the way we work today on the Internet. Remember how looked for information in the pre-Internet and pre-Google age? It wasn’t so simple as today. So, the change of the user’s behavior regarding ‘search’ has created a lot of opportunities on the Internet…
I’m getting back to the topic of persistent storage of PLM data. In my previous posts, I touched on this a few times. PLM Persistent Content and Dynamic 3D PDF PLM Dream Technologies for 2009 First of all, I will try to define functional scope for product persistent storage: In my view,…
Lately, I’ve seen a potential for a growth in Master Data Management (MDM) initiatives. For those who don’t know MDM technologies are, I recommend you start with Wikipedia and check out the links of the MDM offering by IBM, Oracle and some other large IT vendors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Data_Management http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Master_Data_Management/ Looking at…
Last week I had the chance to attend COFES 2009 forum in Scottsdale, AZ. It had a great atmosphere and there were excellent discussions about the present and future of design and engineering software. While I’m still digesting everything I’ve seen and talked about, I’d like to focus my thoughts…
I’d like to get back to Excel discussion. I think that Excel is a really good application. And I don’t believe that somebody will argue with me… I’ll go even further and say – Excel is too good! Excel is used everywhere. Manufacturing enterprises heavily rely on Excel in order…
I want to ask a straightforward question – how is user experience important for building a successful enterprise application (such as enterprise PLM)? I think I hear your voices – yes, yes, yes… So, I think we need to go and shop for some good technologies that will help us…
In my previous post “Search for the right BOM – I’m feeling lucky? “, I started to discover possible ways to handle Bill of Materials in the organization and extended enterprise. Thank you all for your comments. I think we had a good conversation, so I’d like to continue now in…
I’ll start with a disclaimer. I understand that to start a “format discussion” is at least as dangerous as starting a discussion about CAD interoperability. Nevertheless, I will try to turn this conversation away from “how to invent new universal format” to discussion and focus on “maybe we are missing…
Previously, I already touched SharePoint on the PLM SharePoint paradox. Thanks to all of you for commenting on this post. I’d like to continue the SharePoint topic in context of the MS Cloud future. After reading the interview with Steve Balmer in the NYTimes, I found this sketch by Mr….
