Technology

PLM Architecture: Content As a Service

I want to talk today about the future of PLM in terms of content. My initial thoughts were about SOA/WOA architecture and SaaS trends in software. I define PLM Content as a set of information related to Product Definition, Organization Processes related to product development and manufacturing as well as…

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PLM Prompt: Google Image Recognition and Technical Documentation in PLM

Interesting prompt today came out of Google’s US7,580,568 “Methods and Systems for Identifying an Image as a Representative Image for an Article”. Thanks, Steven Arnold for his blog post and Overflight service. Google’s patent gave me context to think about existing product IP in the organizations and this is related…

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PLM Prompt: PLM and the rise of Business Process Management

I was reading Gartner research showing that BPM (Business Process Management) is rising despite the turbulent time and bad financial situation. “Gartner Survey Shows More Than Half ofRespondents Plan to Increase Spending on BPM by More Than 5 Percent inNext 12 Months. Most business process management (BPM) practitioners expect their…

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PLM trends in the intersection of Business and IT

You can ask me – why would you like to talk about trends? Trends are something normally going toward an end of the calendar year? Something like “2009 trends” or “future 2010 trends”… What’s up now? I think, current turbulent time brings different time scale on everything we are doing….

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PLM Prompt: Can RSS reader become an Enterprise platform?

The following article got to my attention this morning. Newsgator started back in 2004 as RSS syndication and stretching their capabilities as social tools platform. They use many of MS SharePoint feature and in sync with Office 2010 coming later this year. Time ago, I had chance to discuss enterprise…

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PLM Prompt: Microsoft Kills Mashups and focus on SharePoint

Interesting prompt related to Mashup services. I just heard that Microsoft will discontinue their Popfly mashup service on Aug-24. Minute of silence, please. Popfly was one of the coolest mashup services I knew. Actually, I’ve seen Popfly as a type of services that can be promising also for various PLM-like…

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PLM Prompt: Google App’s scripts for PLM?

My short and powerful prompt today. Google launched Google Apps Scripts. I’d recommend to see video. I think, this is impressive and expected step from Google. Even, if I understood Google Apps is armed against MS Office, it creates more advanced environment for collaboration online. With my love and hate…

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How PLM can use power of BPM rising stars?

The following article “The State of BPM: Poised to Take Off” drove my attention few days ago and took me to think about BPM and PLM intersection. Recession can spur business growth. In the Business Process Management (BPM) space, current recession presented major marketing opportunity to come to customers and…

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PLM and Virtualization Technologies

I’m constantly looking for new technologies and perspectives of PLM improvement. For the last time, we discussed many products and technological trends such as a cloud and cloud software social software, simplicity, open source software etc. However, I found one was not touched by myself at all. So, I’d like…

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