PLM Prompt: How to Present Cloud PLM Solutions?
on Nov 20, 2009 in Cloud Application PLM Prompt PLM and organization Cloud Google OnDemand PLM How you can explain to customers about PLM on cloud (or on demand)? Quite many times, I’m hearing a phrase “Cloud is not for PLM”.The cloud and on-demand topics were discussed multiple times, and I actually can find some very...

PLM Promot: How to Present Cloud PLM Solutions?
on Nov 20, 2009 in Cloud Application PLM Prompt PLM and organization Cloud Google OnDemand PLM How you can explain to customers about PLM on cloud (or on demand)? Quite many times, I’m hearing a phrase “Cloud is not for PLM”.The cloud and on-demand topics were discussed multiple times, and I actually can find some very...

Develop A Successful PLM Elevator Pitch?
on Nov 20, 2009 in Daily PLM Think Tank PLM and organization PLM Sales Pitch Strategy Vision How many times you’ve been in the situation when you need to explain what PLM is doing to the people who are not familiar with the magic TLA – PLM ? I assume it happened to you many times… It could be your technological fellows, pot...

PLM Prompt: Office and SharePoint 2010 public betas now available for download
on Nov 19, 2009 in Microsoft PLM Prompt 2010 Office PLM SharePoint Microsoft finally made available beta versions of Office 2010 and SharePoint 1010 yesterday. So, I finally have an account to try it out. What are the most interesting scenarios to test in my view? 1. Accessing external data using SharePoing 2010 co...

3D Warehouse Parade
on Nov 19, 2009 in 3D Cloud Application Daily PLM Think Tank Content Onine Warehouse I think 3D Warehouse becomes a hot topic. Number of 3D Content is growing. Yesterday I had chance to try out Autodesk Content 3D Warehouse BETA. So, finally, I got the sequence of the following products which are almost similar (or expected to be sim...

Azure Goes Live, Will be PLM Impacted?
on Nov 18, 2009 in Cloud Application Daily PLM Think Tank Technology Azure Cloud PLM SaaS Finally announced by Microsoft – Azure will go to live in January 2010. To make yourself more familiar with Azure, use this link. You can read interesting Q&A on ebiz. However, my main topic to discuss will be how this new cloud platform fr...

PLM Alert: Google Image Swirl User Experience
on Nov 17, 2009 in 3D Future Trends PLM Prompt PLM User Experience 2D Google Image Search Short alert on Google Labs Releasing Swirl. Google Image Swirl allows you to organize and search images. Official Google’s blog announcement is here. You can run Google Swirl from here. I think, this user experience can be kind of beneficial f...

SaaS and Open Source: PLM Future Rides
on Nov 17, 2009 in Daily PLM Think Tank Future Trends Open Source On Demand PLM Recent announcements about new company PLM+ stroke me to think again about these two interesting trends – On Demand (or SaaS if you will) and Open Source Software (OSS). In one of my previous posts, I talked about promising future trends for PL...

Measuring PLM Technologies Payoff
on Nov 16, 2009 in Business Intelligence Daily PLM Think Tank PLM Implementation PLM and organization Implementation Payoff PLM Reading over the weekend ZDNet post, “Why IT cannot seem to deliver measurable productivity”, I started to think about how many times I heard about PLM technologies in the context of productivity and other aspects of PLM impact on organiz...

How Many Enterprise Backbones Organization Needs?
on Nov 13, 2009 in Daily PLM Think Tank Disruptive Interoperability PLM and organization Technology Architecture Enteprise Platform PLM Interesting post drove my attention yesterday. Reading about the role of PLM as enterprise backbone, I wanted to raise a question – how many of such “e-bones” do we need? My experience shows that in every enterprise implementation,...