The Five Faces of Dr. PLM
There’s one fundamental source of unending consternation about Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and it starts at the very beginning: the very definition of PLM. Any healthy knife fight debate on...
View ArticleLocutus of PLM
Adoption and implementation of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a daunting challenge across three dimensions: technology, business strategy, and culture. Such dramatic change is often perceived...
View ArticlePLM: Insert 5 Million Coins to Continue
Cost is a critical factor in any Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) journey, and collective experience reveals a clear and present danger: that journey can be ridiculously expensive. The costs of...
View ArticleWhy We Need More PLM Epic Fails
Quick, what’s the most assured certainty in startup land? Grossly irresponsible valuations? Nope. Grossly profitable exits? Try again. How about failure. Glorious, unbridled, OMGWTFBBQ failure....
View ArticlePLM Failure: You Didn’t See Anything
Enterprise software, especially Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is complex both from a functionality and integration perspective. Whether such software must...
View ArticleBig Amazing Colossal PLM Data
Big data. No, that’s not quite big enough. Let’s adjust the reverb on the mic a bit… ahem: BIG DATA-A-A-A-A. There’s quite a bit of buzz these days about Big Data -some might argue it’s just buzz- but...
View ArticleA Red BOM Rises
Tensions in the larger enterprise war between Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) appear to be on the rise, and the latest battleground is apparently waving the...
View ArticleTurning Reinvented PLM Wheels into Rainbows
Any single Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) implementation is a unique combination of configuration and customization – a direct reflection of a particular company’s process, values, and structure....
View ArticleThe Legion of PLM Doom
Let’s state the obvious: we need more Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) startups tackling the big problems in unique and unexpected ways. The enterprise software...
View ArticleThe PDM/PLM Divide
A great void continues to expand in the application of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and even progressively simpler Product Data Management (PDM) technology solutions. A chasm exists between the...
View ArticleThe Turn of the Collaboration Tide
How we work is fundamentally changing, not just in engineering, but across all disciplines involving information management and collaboration. There’s an escalating revolution in enterprise software,...
View ArticleThese Aren’t the PLM Search Engines You’re Looking For…
One of the central axioms of Product Lifecycle Management is information re-use. Re-use prevents re-invented wheels by capitalizing on product knowledge that predates your particular problem. Provided...
View ArticleThe PLM Old Fart Paradox
Sometimes it feels like Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is the sole territory of greybeards, just a bunch of old farts locked up in some long-forgotten enterprise cloister, going on and on about...
View ArticleThe PLM Old Fart Solutions: Perspective
Last time on E(E), we lamented the alarming dearth of young talent with interest in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and its impact on future PLM innovation. The PLM Old Fart Paradox outlined how...
View ArticleYour PLM Logic is Useless: Because I’m Excel
Reading Lionel Grealou’s post PLM Vs Excel was a source of great entertainment, yet another salvo in the seemingly intractable war against the eternally entrenched spreadsheet. After all, I’ve written...
View ArticlePut Your PLM in the Box
As enterprise software vendor houses struggle with one another to maintain and expand their territories and influence, they fight across both philosophical and logistical boundaries. What’s to say...
View ArticleMurder, Death, Copyright Violation
As an alarming legal predicament builds momentum in the software world, the dangers of a not-quite-dystopian Taco Bell centric future saturated with legal barriers continues to threaten the enterprise...
View ArticleCloud PLM Isn’t Cloud PLM
Some might surmise that if software is eating the world, then perhaps cloud software is eating conventional software. But is this true in the enterprise? Judging from the explosion of cloud-centric...
View ArticleAccelerating the PLM Cloud Integration Bus
Pop quiz, hotshot. There’s PLM data on a bus. Once more than 5 people interact with that data it becomes important. But if that data isn’t integrated properly, it blows up. What do you do? What do you...
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