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It is time for a change in leadership at the modern firm – the Chief Excel Officer needs to go. We no longer have the need for a gifted wizard of Excel – the go-to guy when we need a spreadsheet to manage some business logic. We do not need to manage…

Last week, some interesting posts about the storage and analysis of data in PLM systems popped up in the blogs I frequent. The conclusion of these posts? PLM needs to be more like Google – it needs to go beyond conventional taxonomies and make sense of…

Last night I had the pleasure of dining with a group of Aras enthusiasts – partners and users – visiting Aras HQ for a training class. Located on the Merrimack River, the dinner conversation naturally focused on the area’s rich industrial past and before…

A while back Ralph Grabowski’s upFront.eZine published a piece titled “ Just How Open is Aras with its Open-Source PLM ” which involved my response to another reader’s statement about Aras. To Ralph’s credit, he published a substantial portion of my response…

Did you catch yesterday’s Boston Globe? It had a rarely captured view into PLM by Boston Globe tech feature writer D.C. Denison: Route 128 at Center of Manufacturing . Denison’s article highlights the clustering of PLM firms in the greater Boston area…