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Open-Source and PLM Marketplace Maturity

This month there was a good article by CIMdata on the PLM/CAD community web sites titled “ Open-Source and PLM Marketplace Maturity ” which explains the benefits for companies and the implications for the PLM market that are resulting from...

Published Thu, Sep 29 2011 3:57 PM by MarcL

Filed under: Enterprise Software, Open Source, PLM, Aras, PLM Software, enterprise open source software, PLM Strategy, Lock-in, product lifecycle management, connected cloud, Networked Business, PLM license costs

Understanding the Economic Advantages of Enterprise Open Source in PLM

Understanding the economic advantages & financial benefits of the enterprise open source format in PLM is important when building a corporate business case for a PLM strategy. There are a number of factors that your team will want to consider when...

Published Fri, Jan 28 2011 3:38 PM by MarcL

Filed under: Enterprise Software, Open Source, PLM, Aras, PLM Software, enterprise open source software, Economy, PLM Strategy, product lifecycle management, AESSiS, CIO, ROI, TCO, PLM license costs

OOTB PLM is Hit or Miss

Out-Of-The-Box (OOTB) PLM solutions are great in concept. The reality, however, is not so rosy or promising. A while back, Chad Jackson did a post on his blog, Engineering Matters , called My Points in the ‘Why Hasn’t PLM Taken Over the World’...

Published Mon, Dec 6 2010 3:40 PM by MarcL

Filed under: Enterprise Software, PLM, Business Process Management, Change Management, PLM Software, PLM Strategy, Lock-in

Top 10 Ways PLM Initiatives Get “Stuck”

Last week, Jennifer McCullough here at Aras, did an interview with Peter for the Siemens PLM Community online magazine titled PLM Doesn’t Have to Weigh You Down along with her own blog post titled Frustrated by a Stuck PLM Project? Then, yesterday...

Published Tue, Oct 26 2010 12:10 PM by MarcL

Filed under: PLM, PLM Software, PLM Strategy

An Interview with Marc Lind: Sharepoint PLM

Last week in an interview with Peter Schroer, I got to uncover some great details about the SharePoint Collaborative Product Development (CPD) solution, aka Sharepoint PLM. This week I caught up with Marc Lind for his take on this Aras co-developed initiative...

Published Thu, Oct 14 2010 11:03 AM by Jennifer

Filed under: Aras, PLM Software, PLM Strategy, Sharepoint PLM, Microsoft

Open Source is the Format of the Future

A discussion on Oleg’s blog Beyond PLM made me think about the motivations and incentives of open source as an approach for developing software and how it fits with associated business models. The post was titled “ PLM and Open Source Licenses...

Published Fri, Sep 24 2010 3:09 PM by MarcL

Filed under: Open Source, PLM, Aras, Oleg Shilovitsky, PLM Software, Customer Stories, PLM Strategy, product lifecycle management

Why Executives Are Skeptical of PLM

Recently, Graham McCall at AESSiS wrote a pretty good blog post titled “ Why Some People Don’t Like PLM ”. It’s a good re-post here and figured I’d include my own 2 cents as well. First, here’s Graham’s perspective...

Published Thu, Sep 9 2010 3:14 PM by MarcL

Filed under: Enterprise Software, PLM, Business Process Management, Oleg Shilovitsky, PLM Software, PLM Strategy, product lifecycle management, AESSiS

What is PLM Data “Obfuscation” and I Why Should I Care?!?

“Obfuscation” is the term for scrambling of the data and/or table names, property names within the PLM database. This is the way the other major PLM / PDM systems were / are designed. The database table for the Part Master is not called /...

Published Thu, Aug 5 2010 4:50 PM by MarcL

Filed under: Aras, PLM Software, PLM Strategy, Interoperability, Lock-in

PLM Strategy and Planning for an Uncertain Future

On one hand, we're getting promising news about the growth in manufacturing in the US and Asia (but with Europe a little less confident). On the other hand, the words "double-dip recession" are in the business press every day. Gartner is...

Published Thu, Aug 5 2010 8:25 AM by MarcL

Filed under: Open Source, Economy, Recession, PLM Strategy

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