Every initiative starts with the best intentions.  Requirements are defined and a team sets out to select the best tool to fix the problem that's causing the biggest headache today.  While every company wants to look at “the big picture”, the reality...

Image (modified) courtesy of Beyond PLM Today on the Beyond PLM blog, Oleg points out a number of FACTS and makes some good arguments in his post Future PLM Platforms and SAP / Oracle Technological Wars. The problem with this analysis though is ...

In any enterprise-wide PLM deployment the subject of integration to legacy systems is going to be important. Everybody knows that Aras has a comprehensive suite of pre-packaged connector integrations for MCAD, EDA / ECAD and ERP systems, however, not...

Happy new year to everyone! We’re looking forward to a great 2012, and looking back at 2011 it was another record breaker. In addition to achieving record sales and double digit growth again (that’s 5 years in a row for anyone counting), ...

This open source project is quite practical and something that most companies will find useful. It's a server-side File Converter Framework that’s been put together by T-Systems International, the global systems integration firm. T-Systems has provi...