ROI of PLM is not measurable. To sell PLM you need to create a myth. This statement of Jos Voksuil caught my attention a few weeks ago. In his recent article, PLM Myth-perception Jos went all way down explaining the irrational behavior of PLM decision-makers, human behavior, and the complexity…
Process improvement was the goal of PLM projects for many years. Streamline processes in product delivery, end to end lifecycle support, expanding beyond engineering and many other themes came in the scope of what PLM vendors advertised as a big value behind PLM. The modern manufacturing process is a complex…
Unless you live under the rock for the last few years, you’ve heard about DevOps. So, for starters, this is my best description of DevOps from Atlassian. DevOps is a set of practices that automates the processes between software development and IT teams, in order that they can build, test,…
Professional life is about priorities. And sometimes, choices are very tough and you have to say no. I’ve been invited to join Digital R&D hackathon in Paris organized by McKinsey and develop a prototype using OpenBOM technologies (disclaimer – I’m CEO and co-founder). But I had to say no, unfortunately,…
Companies and businesses need to grow. If they don’t, businesses will die and investors won’t get their money back. According to CIMdata, the growth of PLM business was in the upper single-digit (9.4% for PLM and 8.6% for cPDM). You can check my blog from the last year – PLM…
Looking back on what happened for the last 10 years in PLM, the one thing is absolutely clear – the position of vendors didn’t change. The ruling top vendors in the PLM business in 2019 are the same vendors that ruled the market in 2009. As we are coming to…
Earlier this month, I shared my thoughts about what happened with PDM for the last 10 years? PDM was an interesting business for the last decade. While PDM functionality is usually provided by the system coming from the same vendor and integrated with a CAD application, we can see that…
Just a few days left before the year 2020 will be here. The past decade was the time for PLM software vendors to learn and experiment with cloud systems. I read my blogs from the 2010s. Many of those articles are reflecting the debates we had about cloud computing and…
Cloud Computing – SaaS Enterprise companies of all sizes are adopting cloud technologies. This is not a secret and all numbers are speaking about significant growth in SaaS application adoption. Check my article from the last year – Need for Speed and cloud PLM adoption. Manufacturing companies are coming to…
The opensource model became very popular in the last 2-3 decades of software development and you can find great examples of open-source software used everywhere – operation systems, mobile platforms, graphic libraries, databases, and even business applications. But we don’t see it much successful in PLM. Last week’s discussion about…
