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PLM: Repositioned for a New Year

By Dick Weisinger

2009 was a difficult year in the PLM space.  The sluggish economy hit hard at the industry, and by midyear, CIMdata revised its forecast for the PLM market downward.  Fighting back, vendors attempted to fight back and started developing features

PLM: Product Information Technology Slow to Advance

By Dick Weisinger

Product Information Technology is advancing slowly and most organizations have not been able to develop a product information strategy that can contribute business value.  Only 26 percent of companies surveyed by Ventana Research actually have a Product Information Management (PIM)

Engineering: Synergies of Integrated PLM and ERP

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is synonymous to mammoth monolithic software heavy in features and capabilities.  The goal of ERP is to manage and coordinate all resources, information, and functions of a business. On the other hand, Product lifecycle management

PLM: An Update on the 2009 PLM Market

By Dick Weisinger

The economy has been bad, and that is reflected in an update of CIMdata’s forecast for the PLM industry.  Companies are investing less in PLM infrastructure than expected, and that has resulted in a revision downward of their expectations.  In

PLM: PTC and Arena Solutions Top Aberdeen's List of PLM vendors

By Dick Weisinger

Aberdeen Group has released their rankings for PLM vendors.  Their report is called “Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Solutions AXIS for Hardgoods Manufacturers, Q2, 2009”. Following in the tradition of Gartner’s Quadrants and Forrester’s Waves, Aberdeen presents their results on a