I had the chance to talk with … Aras recently to get an update on their open source PLM offering. I find there is a lot of confusion about open source software, and talking to Aras offered a very simple view of what open source means to them (and their customers). In a nutshell, they say, open source PLM means “no more PLM license fees, ever.”
Archives for December 2009
Fight or Embrace Best-of-Breed in the Manufacturing Systems Ecosystem?
What I learned this week came from some reflection on a workshop I conducted on enterprise systems for a small division of a large A&D contractor.Should we fight best-of-breed or embrace it?
Making Environmental Product Compliance Sustainable
A quick peek into a survey and interviews on how companies are meeting environmental regulations for their products, and doing so in a way that is sustainable to the business from a cost and risk perspective
Enterprise 2.0 Adoption Study Good Sign for Social Computing in PLM
A quick peek into some research on the adoption of Enterprise 2.0 technologies. Things are moving in a positive direction in regards to PLM and social computing.